I’m confused. I bought my first gun from a Tennessee gun shop last year, and in the process had to fill out a form which the seller then uploaded.
I assumed it was uploaded to a federal agency. Was I mistaken?
Where did they send it to?
You filled out a Form 4473 which stays at the gun seller’s file, and they used the info on that to look it up in the fed NICS database to see that there wasn’t anything on record that you couldn’t buy it.
NICS database has info on felons and other categories of people that aren’t allowed to own guns.