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Anybody think that the F-a-B-eye isn't doing a systems back-up on any of these files? or even better?
Law states that a clean sale gets wiped - right now.
Feds are keeping copies on a buy, & that in violation of anything 4473-wise.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031230-102734-2123r.htm
"Bill limits gun-buyer database - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 30, 2003
Bill limits gun-buyer database
By Brian DeBose
House Republicans have included language in the omnibus appropriations
bill to prevent federal law enforcement from maintaining a 90-day database on gun buyers, angering gun control advocates but moving closer to the original intent of the law.
The House passed an amendment to the omnibus bill earlier this month
that would require all records from mandatory background checks on
potential gun owners authorized by the Brady bill to be destroyed within 24 hours of a legal purchase. The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) currently maintain the files for 90 days.
"Congress isn't helping law enforcement when they pass something like
this," said Sarah Brady, chairman of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence. "Last week, we marked the 10th anniversary of the Brady law, and this week the House wants to pass legislation that limits law enforcement's ability to stop criminals from getting guns."
The bill will be taken up by the Senate when Congress returns in January. Senate leaders have not stated a position on the measure. The office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, did not return calls seeking comment yesterday.
Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, said the
language to move to a 24-hour window is a shift to the original intent of
the law.
Saying "the federal government has no right to build a database on
law-abiding gun owners," the NRA spokesman said the rule of retaining
records for 90 days was not part of the Brady legislation, but was a
Clinton administration executive policy.
Critics of the proposed 24-hour rule say it would prevent the ATF from
requiring gun dealers to take regular inventories of their firearms, block
public scrutiny of corrupt gun dealers by preventing the release of crime
gun traces and multiple gun sale data, and require that ATF disavow the
conclusions of numerous studies it has published.
"The best recent example has to do with individuals on the [FBI]
terrorist watch list where FBI records showed that some had tried to
purchase guns and others were actually successful and bought guns," said
Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The Brady bill, passed by Congress in 1993, created mandatory
background checks on handgun and rifle purchases. It was named for former White House Press Secretary James S. Brady, who was shot during an assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981.
Mr. Hamm said the Justice Department under Attorney General John
Ashcroft proposed the rule change for background checks more than a year
ago but faced "serious objections" from federal law enforcement officials.
"Congress doesn't need to be stepping in and doing something that the
executive branch looked at and decided not to do," Mr. Hamm said.
But Mr. Cox said the congressional intent of the Brady bill was always
for the records on law-abiding gun owners to be destroyed.
"They can and quite frankly should keep records on criminals and
people who are denied," the NRA spokesman said. "But the House and Senate have spoken that the federal government has no right to build a database on law-abiding gun owners, or any Americans who have been approved to own a gun," Mr. Cox said.
In the past two years Rep. James P. Moran, Virginia Democrat, has
twice offered amendments to maintain the 90-day mandate, but those
amendments have been defeated."
Law states that a clean sale gets wiped - right now.
Feds are keeping copies on a buy, & that in violation of anything 4473-wise.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031230-102734-2123r.htm
"Bill limits gun-buyer database - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 30, 2003
Bill limits gun-buyer database
By Brian DeBose
House Republicans have included language in the omnibus appropriations
bill to prevent federal law enforcement from maintaining a 90-day database on gun buyers, angering gun control advocates but moving closer to the original intent of the law.
The House passed an amendment to the omnibus bill earlier this month
that would require all records from mandatory background checks on
potential gun owners authorized by the Brady bill to be destroyed within 24 hours of a legal purchase. The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) currently maintain the files for 90 days.
"Congress isn't helping law enforcement when they pass something like
this," said Sarah Brady, chairman of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence. "Last week, we marked the 10th anniversary of the Brady law, and this week the House wants to pass legislation that limits law enforcement's ability to stop criminals from getting guns."
The bill will be taken up by the Senate when Congress returns in January. Senate leaders have not stated a position on the measure. The office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, did not return calls seeking comment yesterday.
Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, said the
language to move to a 24-hour window is a shift to the original intent of
the law.
Saying "the federal government has no right to build a database on
law-abiding gun owners," the NRA spokesman said the rule of retaining
records for 90 days was not part of the Brady legislation, but was a
Clinton administration executive policy.
Critics of the proposed 24-hour rule say it would prevent the ATF from
requiring gun dealers to take regular inventories of their firearms, block
public scrutiny of corrupt gun dealers by preventing the release of crime
gun traces and multiple gun sale data, and require that ATF disavow the
conclusions of numerous studies it has published.
"The best recent example has to do with individuals on the [FBI]
terrorist watch list where FBI records showed that some had tried to
purchase guns and others were actually successful and bought guns," said
Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The Brady bill, passed by Congress in 1993, created mandatory
background checks on handgun and rifle purchases. It was named for former White House Press Secretary James S. Brady, who was shot during an assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981.
Mr. Hamm said the Justice Department under Attorney General John
Ashcroft proposed the rule change for background checks more than a year
ago but faced "serious objections" from federal law enforcement officials.
"Congress doesn't need to be stepping in and doing something that the
executive branch looked at and decided not to do," Mr. Hamm said.
But Mr. Cox said the congressional intent of the Brady bill was always
for the records on law-abiding gun owners to be destroyed.
"They can and quite frankly should keep records on criminals and
people who are denied," the NRA spokesman said. "But the House and Senate have spoken that the federal government has no right to build a database on law-abiding gun owners, or any Americans who have been approved to own a gun," Mr. Cox said.
In the past two years Rep. James P. Moran, Virginia Democrat, has
twice offered amendments to maintain the 90-day mandate, but those
amendments have been defeated."