On 11/13/2016 7:35 AM, Winston_Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:38:46 -0700, Just Wondering wrote:
>> On 11/12/2016 12:11 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 03:11:38 -0700, Just Wondering wrote:
>
>>>> Let's examine that claim. What list would that be?
>>>
>>> The form you fill out at the gun store. Law says check them out and
>>> dump. BATF says no way in hell they are going to do that.
>>>
>> That's it? That's all you've got? There are approximately 79 thousand
>> FFL holders who sell 12 million new firearms and millions more used
>> firearms annually. Over time that amounts over 150 million FFL firearm
>> sales. The only place those sales are recorded are on paper (not
>> electronic records) stored by each FFL holder. There is no central
>> repository in any form containing that information. In other words,
>> there is no single "list" ANYWHERE of FFL sales.
>
> Obviously you have a horse you want to flog. Be my guest. Fact is the
> gun store contacts the BATF, says this guy wants to buy a gun, is he
> OK. They get back a number and add it to the form I filled and I get
> the gun.
>
> At a minimum, the BATF has name, identifying ID to separate me from
> 100 people with the same name, date of purchase, and FFL dealer.
> That's in a computer.
> If they just have my name, they have my address, age, etc.
>
BATFE doesn't. To repeat,
"As of July 2004, approved purchaser information must be destroyed
within 24 hours of the official NICS response to the dealer. This
Which makes your preceding comment bullshit, and you already knew it was
bullshit when you typed it.
> At least one gun store in my area now has you fill out the form on a
> computer. I have no idea if they just print it or if the record is
> kept electronically now. Clearly paper records of any kind are
> disappearing. It won't be another decade before paper records are
> virtually extinct or at best redundant.
>
Wow, you must have crystal balls, to be able to see into the future.
But suppose you're right. In the meantime, a decade from now there will
already be 600 million gun out there, most of them still won't be in
your system, and a huge part of those will have gone through private
sales where no record is kept anyway.
>> Moreover, "As of July 2004, approved purchaser information must be
>> destroyed within 24 hours of the official NICS response to the dealer.20
>> This destruction requirement has been imposed in appropriations bills as
>> part of the so-called “Tiahrt Amendments,” named after their chief
>> proponent Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). As a result, ATF inspectors are no
>> longer able to compare the information on file with the dealer to the
>> information the dealer submitted to NICS."
>>
http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/gun-dealer-sales/maintaining-records-on-gun-sales/
>>
> Yes, you are right. I already wrote that. THE LAW SAYS. And the feds
> say - right out loud in public - they have no intention of destroying
> those records. Theory and practice often differ.
>
Please provide a cite where BATFE has publicly stated that
it is violating the Tiahrt Amendments.