ATF Moving Toward Gun Registry...
Posted by Awr Hawkins for Breitbart
FOX News reports Rep. Mike Cloud (R-TX) and 50 of his colleagues sent a letter to ATF Director Marvin Richardson earlier this week, and used the letter to sound the alarm on a possible registry.
The Republicans warned that a proposed ATF rule change would put in place a requirement that Federal Firearm License holders (FFLs) preserve firearm transaction records that are beyond 20 years old. McCloud warns that no such requirement currently exists, and instituting one effectively creates a de facto registry based off gun sales.
McCloud observed: “This proposed rule would be a giant leap toward a federal firearm registry, which is explicitly banned by law…Requiring federal firearm licensees to preserve records older than 20 years will enable the Biden administration to collect more information on law-abiding gun owners, all with the purpose of eventually having a registry of every gun owner in the United States.”
The ATF’s proposed rule change on firearm transaction records is even more worrisome when viewed in light of the Washington Free Beacon report that the ATF has “obtained more than 54 million gun owner records in 2021 alone.”
The Federalist observed, “If a national database is created, thousands of gun owners could be sought out by the administration to ‘register or destroy’ any firearms or related equipment that the Democrat administration seeks to restrict or even ban.”
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