You don't have to have an NICS and fill out an ATF 4473 there?
The Feds don't get the 4473. They are kept in the bound book at the FFL in all states. The Feds don't keep the records. For them to use the 4473 to ID gun owners they'd have to seize every bound book from every FFL Then spend years collating, entering data, etc to even be able to search it. Then comes the fact that there is no federal requirement to notify if the firearm was sold, lost, or stolen.
I love watching CSI, NCIS, and other crime shows, but cringe every time they pull that 'This gun was registered to such and such from BFE' crap. It's Hollyweirds way of conditioning the masses to believe it.
I've never seen an episode of either of those shows. I really do not believe that the feds don't keep the records.
I've never seen an episode of either of those shows. I really do not believe that the feds don't keep the records.
Sorry - I have useful things in mind to prevent that situation.
Life is too short to sign petitions and put my real name out into the ether.
Talk to an FFL holder and ask them if they forward copies of the 4473 to the feds. Or perhaps, they're in on it.
As for conditioning the masses, I don't believe in a conspiracy, really, but there is something to the notion of conditioning people to the idea of national registration. I can see the average schmuck saying: "wait, we don't have registrations?!?"
Even my 15 year old son....my OWN SON, when I recently bought a couple of guns said: "they just let you walk out with them the same day" What then ensued was a lengthy lecture/rant about the Constitution. He wishes he never said anything.
What if any information is given when the 4473 is called in for the background check?