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My understanding of some issues regarding Form 4473 and what the feds
can/can't do with the data contained on them:

Form 4473 contains the buyer data for the original buyer of the gun from
an FFL. If the gun is later used in a crime, the LEO's can find out who
bought the gun new, then they have to follow the chain of ownership if they can
find all the owners.

When an FFL goes out of business, their paper 4473 forms go to the
federal facility in West Virginia.

The NRA had the federal laws structured so that the 4473 data is not allowed
to be entered into any sort of computer database.

So if gun tracing is attempted by the feds on guns sold by a gun shop that went
out of business, the feds must go through a large quantity of hardcopy 4473's stacked
in crappy boxes of varying descriptions to even find out the original owner.

We all know that manual processes will always be much slower than if the feds were
allowed to computerize the data.

SIA