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Listen up! The ATF is trying to change the 4473 form (FFL Firearms Transfer Record that you fill out when you buy a new firearm) and they are going to sneak in a National Registry at the same time.
The STATED purpose of the change is to provide science deniers a spot under gender to choose something besides male or female. However, snuck in this proposal is the digitization of your information.
The way it is now, NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) the place that your FFL calls your 4473 in to, only keeps Records of successful transactions for 24 hours. In other words, if you submit the paperwork to buy a firearm and the background check is submitted to their database, it is only retained for 24 hours before being deleted IF you were not denied.
Be aware, denials are kept indefinitely, however they are not kept in the NICS database indefinitely. NICS logs denials and keeps a database of denied applications for a period of 10 years, after which it is transferred to an FBI database.
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FFLs keep the 4473 forms forever. The ATF only has the form 4473s of FFLs that have ceased operations. There is a caveat. FFLs have noted that ATF agents have come in and photocopied and even PHOTOGRAPHED their 4473s following leads in criminal cases.
Currently the ATF has no ability to search the text of a 4473 on file, and no effort is made to tag files with identifiers that could later be used to sort and search. In fact, at one point, the ATF attempted to merge their "trace" information from one server with the form 4473 data.
Listen up! The ATF is trying to change the 4473 form (FFL Firearms Transfer Record that you fill out when you buy a new firearm) and they are going to sneak in a National Registry at the same time.
The STATED purpose of the change is to provide science deniers a spot under gender to choose something besides male or female. However, snuck in this proposal is the digitization of your information.
The way it is now, NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) the place that your FFL calls your 4473 in to, only keeps Records of successful transactions for 24 hours. In other words, if you submit the paperwork to buy a firearm and the background check is submitted to their database, it is only retained for 24 hours before being deleted IF you were not denied.
Be aware, denials are kept indefinitely, however they are not kept in the NICS database indefinitely. NICS logs denials and keeps a database of denied applications for a period of 10 years, after which it is transferred to an FBI database.
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FFLs keep the 4473 forms forever. The ATF only has the form 4473s of FFLs that have ceased operations. There is a caveat. FFLs have noted that ATF agents have come in and photocopied and even PHOTOGRAPHED their 4473s following leads in criminal cases.
Currently the ATF has no ability to search the text of a 4473 on file, and no effort is made to tag files with identifiers that could later be used to sort and search. In fact, at one point, the ATF attempted to merge their "trace" information from one server with the form 4473 data.
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