I hope you are right. I read the line you quoted and seriously could not envision any dealer I use allowing access to the 4473s in their possession. If you and I are wrong then we are very much screwed.
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On another thread I was wondering what the possibility was of getting all FFL’s to destroy 4473’s en masse.
That would be a hard sell. While depriving Them of the info contained on the forms, the FFLs would be subject to serious felony charges for not keeping them available for 20 years. All BATFE would have to do is ask to see them...even just have the box opened to confirm their existence. Or have a warrant ready that was obtained under the pretense of suspecting they'd been destroyed. Most judges would go along with that.