Congress: Gun background check data kept for 24hrs, "undetectable" gun ban

[papercut]

Seeing a few reports around the web that Congress is considering test in a massive federal spending bill that would keep background checks info on gun buyers for just 24 hours instead of the current 90 days.

Same reports say that the Senate passed (and sent to the president to sign) "a 10-year extension of legislation that bans the manufacture, sale and possession of firearms that cannot be detected by airport metal detectors or X-ray machines."

What I want to know is: is the "undetectable" firearms bill the full "assault weapons" ban, or just a ban on undetectable guns? That is, are we still stuck with the stupid ban-on-evil-LOOKING-guns and no standard-capacity mags for our pistols?

Anyone know for sure?

Reference:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104101,00.html

 

[GSB]

Whew. I feel safer from thos nonexistant all-plastic handguns already. Peace in our time!

 

[Gordon Fink]

Changing the retention period of NICS data from 90 days to 24 hours will add 89 days to the amount of time the federal government illegally retains said data.

~G. Fink

 

[clange]

Why hasnt anything been done about that? Its so blatantly illegal one would think it would be somewhat easy to put a stop to it..