Let’s slow down here....
As far as I am aware, TODAY, the ATF does NOT “copy all of the 4473’s”.
They are simply “available for inspection”.
As far as potential FUTURE intrusions, into credit card purchases, the Visa records simply indicate a purchase total at a given vendor. It DOES NOT itemize the products.
I happen to have a particular store receipt that reads “General Merchandise”.
The point I’m making is that I want to make sure we know what they ARE doing now, so we will all see the RED FLAG when they start snooping further.
Want to buy a bridge? Got one for sale.
One thing is for certain, if they want to look at your non cash purchase history it is there for the taking. Cops do it all the time.
I am good friends w/ a gun store owner and he tells me that during annual inspections the ATF would come w/ a copy machine. Then would then copy 4473s mostly which listed non-PC guns. I think they were mostly focused on ARs/AKs and the like. He said they backed off some when he pointed some of his store security cams at their table. Initially they wanted to use his copy machine. He had no idea what they did w/ the copies but had his suspicions. So it does occur.
Then how was Mastercard able to verify the UPC of an item for which I filed a dispute? It is possible they retrieved an electronic copy of the receipt from the retailer AFTER I filed the dispute but it evidently WAS available.
Do what the freedom fighters of wars past did..read up on them and then get going.
> “As far as I am aware, TODAY, the ATF does NOT “copy all of the 4473’s”.”
You might be out of date. There have been several reports that the BATF is now carrying those small, hand-held scanners when the are “inspecting the 4473 forms” and run it over all the pages. I am sure they are not planning to do anything illegal, though (/sarc).