ATF Admits to secret database of almost a billion gun owners
(www.zerohedge.com)
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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.