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To: elcid1970
Then the feds plug his name into the BATFE Form 4473 database.

If such a database exists, it is ILLEGAL, and heads should roll--yes, literally-- for constructing such a monstrosity.

Yes, it's true that BATFEral agents can go to a local gun store, and copy as many Forms 4473 as they can carry. But making a database of them, and then searching it using a citizens' name, is SPECIFICALLY ILLEGAL at the Federal level.

Not that Obama's thugs would obey that law, of course.

48 posted on 10/16/2014 3:16:59 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: backwoods-engineer

And who, pray tell, is going to do the head rolling?

A little story: I was stationed in Germany in 1981 and took with me a snubnose S&W .38. To bring it back again I had to prove that I had bought it before leaving the States.

I wrote to BATF & they replied with a nice letter that stated “our records show that you purchased this revolver SN#XXXXX on October 12, 1973. You may use this letter as proof of prior purchase.”

That was 33 years ago. It’s illegal to place 4473’s in a central file or database? Hmm.....


53 posted on 10/16/2014 4:50:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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