From www.nralive .com
THE CONFISCATION LIST BEGINS!
Can you say Australia, can you say Canada,
can you say Great Briton?
03/26/2000 BATF has sent gun shops letters
demanding a list of all guns sold and the law abiding gun buyers who bought them in the last 3 years.
Subsequent to this , gun shops are instructed to send in to BATF a monthly
list of all guns sold each month and the names and addresses of the law abiding
gun owners who bought them.
The Federal government and BATF if forbidden by the terms of the Gun Control Act of 1968
to either keep or possess such lists.
A gun shop along with 3 gun owners has brought the BATF to court and is suing BATF
and requesting the court to place a stop
injunction on the compilation of these law
abiding gun owners and guns owned by make,
model & serial number illegal and unconstitutuional list.
Gun shops recieving this letter must comply
or BATF will pull their Federal Firearms License and confiscate the requested records anyways.
So BATF still gets the illegal for BATF to have records but the gun shop that refused to volintarily send in the records
has their license to opperate revocked and is in jail for paperwork violations.
It is not known or apparent if BATF just sent these demands for lists of guns sold in the past 3 years to just selected gun shops or to all US gun shops.
Unconfirmed speculation as follows:
The nralive report said something about BATF wanting the information to do traces of firearms possibly relating to crime.
If this
is the case [unknown] (then maybe only) selected gun shops thought to be possibly linked to having a significant amount of their sold firearms ending up in the hands of criminals might have recieved the demand for the list.
I would be much interested in knowing if all US gun shops recieved this demand for a list or just selected gun shops.
If all US gun shops have recieved the illegal demand letter from BATF, then we see the begining of confiscation.
If selected gun shops only recieve the list demand, we are seeing a crime trace program.
THE CONFISCATION LIST BEGINS!
Can you say Australia, can you say Canada,
can you say Great Briton?
03/26/2000 BATF has sent gun shops letters
demanding a list of all guns sold and the law abiding gun buyers who bought them in the last 3 years.
Subsequent to this , gun shops are instructed to send in to BATF a monthly
list of all guns sold each month and the names and addresses of the law abiding
gun owners who bought them.
The Federal government and BATF if forbidden by the terms of the Gun Control Act of 1968
to either keep or possess such lists.
A gun shop along with 3 gun owners has brought the BATF to court and is suing BATF
and requesting the court to place a stop
injunction on the compilation of these law
abiding gun owners and guns owned by make,
model & serial number illegal and unconstitutuional list.
Gun shops recieving this letter must comply
or BATF will pull their Federal Firearms License and confiscate the requested records anyways.
So BATF still gets the illegal for BATF to have records but the gun shop that refused to volintarily send in the records
has their license to opperate revocked and is in jail for paperwork violations.
It is not known or apparent if BATF just sent these demands for lists of guns sold in the past 3 years to just selected gun shops or to all US gun shops.
Unconfirmed speculation as follows:
The nralive report said something about BATF wanting the information to do traces of firearms possibly relating to crime.
If this
is the case [unknown] (then maybe only) selected gun shops thought to be possibly linked to having a significant amount of their sold firearms ending up in the hands of criminals might have recieved the demand for the list.
I would be much interested in knowing if all US gun shops recieved this demand for a list or just selected gun shops.
If all US gun shops have recieved the illegal demand letter from BATF, then we see the begining of confiscation.
If selected gun shops only recieve the list demand, we are seeing a crime trace program.