TexasRifleman
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Hmm, gee. Sounds like de facto registration to me if implemented.
But that can't be true, I read in this thread there is no such thing.
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Shotgun Registration Washington State
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Hmm, gee. Sounds like de facto registration to me if implemented.
But that can't be true, I read in this thread there is no such thing.
Form 4473 may not be complete registration like others have pointed it out, but it is certainly a step in that direction. Rights are not always taken away all at once. They can be eroded over time. Closing the "gun show loophole" and requiring private transactions to be conducted through an FFL dealer would put all guns in a registry over time.
Also, the information on a Form 4473 is entered in an FFL's bound book. While the form 4473 may be destroyed after 20 years, the bound book can never be destroyed. It must be turned over to the ATF when a dealer does not renew its license.
Also, the information on a Form 4473 is entered in an FFL's bound book. While the form 4473 may be destroyed after 20 years, the bound book can never be destroyed. It must be turned over to the ATF when a dealer does not renew its license.
mgkdrgn
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Two questions, please, if anyone can answer:
First:
What does this mean?
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000923----000-.html
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(A) Each licensee shall, when required by letter issued by the Attorney General, and until notified to the contrary in writing by the Attorney General, submit on a form specified by the Attorney General, for periods and at the times specified in such letter, all record information required to be kept by this chapter or such lesser record information as the Attorney General in such letter may specify.
It means the BATFE can ask for, in writing, the information that is in an FFL's records. If nobody had the right to ask to see them, there wouldn't be much point in creating/keeping them in the first place. But note that they must -ask- for them, in writing. They have to ask because they don't have them to begin with.
Second:
Where in the statute does it specify that an FFL has to keep the 4473 for only 20 years and then they can be destroyed?
That is right on the 4473, page 3 of 6, Notices, Instructions and Definitions
"Such forms 4473 must be retained for at least 20 years."
Art Eatman
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This is wandering away from the OP's question about the purchasing process...
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