Only citizens and resident aliens with green cards can purchase firearms. I really don't care if they look at the list, the government knows I have guns, anyway, and I am not an Arab or a terrorist. Food for thought: maybe some of those Arabs who married American women just to get citizenship also have aresenals they are willing to use.
Midnight snack: maybe they're just Arabs who married American women and want to protect themselves from folks who lump them all into one category.
I guess we need to make a decision here, yes? Are we going to be OK with being guilty until proven innocent?
The Brady Law says that the records of approved transactions must be destroyed, but it doesn't specify a time period. The FBI/DOJ "compromised" with the critics and instituted a six-month limitation (they were originally asking for 18 months), which was whittled down to the 90-day period. Ashcroft had proposed the 24-hour period earlier this year. Purchase denials, on the other hand, are retained for ten years and are kept in a federal records center.
The NICS regs state that the Audit Log will include:
The regs also state that the Audit Log will be used for system performance analysis, evidence for appeals, and to search for abuses of the system, such as through false ID.
So, in truth, there are records available to check, but they're not supposed to be used for the purpose that Chuckie Cheese and his gun-grabbing buddy want to. If I understand correctly, they want to be able to check the names of suspected terrorists against approved gun purchase records. So what happens if they get their way? They have a name of a suspected terrorist, they run it against the records, it shows that he made a purchase. What can be done legally?