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rodnocker1 wrote:

TC-TX wrote:

I am opposed to government registration as it is, and the 4473 and FFL's requirement to keep those records is registration.

Actually - the 4473 never leaves the FFL files (unless a firearm has been used in a crime and a copy has been requested by the BATFE) NOR is the sale ever recorded with the BATFE at any time.

This is true unless the FFL goes out of business. Then his records (bound book of 4473's) must be turned in to the BATFE. To the untrained eye, it would look like they are basically having the FFL's maintain their records for them until (or if) they need them. This saves them alot of file work.

True, but for practical purposes, those records are lost forever without having been indexed or scanned into a database. I imagine a "raiders of the lost ark" kind of warehouse filled with boxes of records. I've never heard that the ATF has the kind of manpower or ability to keep the records up.

llwatson wrote:I thought about this for a few minutes, and then realized I have NEVER sold a gun. I have let a few be adopted into good homes, but I have never SOLD one. Why, that would be just like selling one of the kids.

Hmm... wonder how much I could get for one of them kids?

This cracks me up. I bought a C&R rifle off of a guy on one of the boards, and he asked me about how to go about shipping it. I realized I had never sold a gun before, much less shipped one, lol