ATF Admits to secret database of almost a billion gun owners
(www.zerohedge.com)
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The paperwork lists you so its actually owners.its cool though the government is no longer bound by pesky laws
The database is from gun shops that go out of business. They ship their records to the ATF for retention. This database goes back at least 25 years. I remember reading about the ATF being prevented from making a database form these records way back in the 1990s by the Gingrich Congress during the Clinton years. I suppose at this point, the ATF said "fuck it, let's do it anyway".
About 40-45% of American households will admit on surveys to having a gun in the home. I suspect that most homes with guns have multiple guns, which means multiple gun purchases, which means multiple records.