"The Call "

[DMK]

Congress has ordered the FBI to destroy the NICS database no less than three times since its implementation.

Whether or not it's been dismantled and destroyed in its ENTIRETY is a topic of much debate. One could argue that it serves Homeland Security to keep the backups, yet one could also argue that it's a crime to ignore congress.

Well, IF the data was not purged and they were to use that information to gain incriminating evidence leading to an arrest, wouldn't any evidence they had that resulted from the NICs data be inadmissible in court, since it was illegal for them to retain it in the first place?

 

[Ithaca37]

serial number and make/model? Never heard that while buying a gun. I listen and it just the usual info, but I have heard the pistol/long arm question before, and it doesn't bother me. It would however, if they said Bushmaster AR-15 serial number XXXXX-XXXX etc. That would raise my eyebrow a bit...

I have witnessed that at Walmart before. Never anywhere else.



The background check isn't of concern (other than the aforementioned wally world incident), but the 4473 database they maintain is.

http://www.gunsandammomag.com/second_amendment/rkba0403_0421/

 

[highorder]

I'm also willing to bet that the NICS system has the most sophisticated backup-and-restore system any techno-geek can imagine.

I'll take that bet. the .gov is as broken as any othjer aging computer system, and run and maintained by regular people.