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Rafe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:34 pm with a CHL/LTC I don't believe it ever hits the system as an NICS check

Rafe wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:27 pm The local plus import total for 2000 through 2019, then, would be about 215,418,585 newly manufactured firearms entering the marketplace, or about 10.77 million each year on average for the past 20 years.

Two-thirds of Republicans believe the policy will lead to gun confiscation, and even 40 percent of Democrats believe the same. Confiscating legally owned firearms, it seems, is not merely a right-wing conspiracy theory.

In a 2001 lawsuit, the Pennsylvania state police could not identify any crimes solved by their registration system from 1901 to 2001; however they did claim that it had “assisted” in a total of four cases, for which they could provide no details.

In a 2013 deposition for District of Columbia v. Heller II, the plaintiffs recorded that the Washington, D.C. police chief could not “recall any specific instance where registration records were used to determine who committed a crime, except for possession offenses.”

During testimony before the Hawaii State Senate in 2000, Honolulu’s police chief stated that he couldn’t find any crimes that had been solved due to registration and licensing. The chief also said that his officers devoted about 50,000 hours to registering and licensing guns each year. This is time that could have been spent on traditional, time-tested law enforcement activities.

New York and Maryland spent tens of millions of dollars putting together a computer database on all new guns sold in the past 15 years, even recording the ballistic fingerprint of each gun. But even these states, which strongly favor gun control, eventually abolished their systems because they never solved a single crime.

jerry_r60 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:50 am I assume they key at least meta data into a document management system, making searchable which batches of documents are in which box and where that box is stored.

Pending ATF Regulation Regarding FFL Records Retention (20 years): ATF has a
regulation pending at DOJ to increase the requirements for FFLs to retain records
indefinitely. The current standard is 20 years, and records older than 20 years can be
destroyed. The intent of the change from 20 years to indefinite retention is to provide
access to records for firearms traces over longer periods of time. However, many argue
that crime guns are not frequently recovered with times to crimes from purchases over
20 years old. Also, older firearms possessed by criminals frequently transfer hands
several times and a trace will often not lead to the criminal after so much time has
passed. ATF has averaged approximately 1,200 failed traces a year over the past 5 years
due to records destruction, accounting for less than one half of one percent of traces
conducted nationally each year. While such an extension is arguably a viable law
enforcement intelligence tool, much of the firearms industry is opposed to such a
change and a closer review of this proposal could be beneficial.