ATF Proposes Step to Make a
National Gun Registry Easier
By Michael Hammond, Legislative Counsel. February 16, 2020
(AmmoLand.com) - The ATF has issued new rules that will alter the format for Form 4473's and make it easier to create a national gun registry.
Here's what we know. ATF agents have used annual inspections to electronically record the contents of Form 4473's being kept by federal gun dealers. See here and here.
We also know that a software company exhibiting its wares at the Shot Show in Las Vegas has crafted a system where ATF can take the contents of all the dealer's Bound Book entries by simply capturing them on a thumb drive.
The movie, Red Dawn, shows how the 4473 form can be used as a backdoor gun registry. In the movie, a Cuban commander orders an officer to obtain the 4473s from the sporting goods store, so the invading forces know who owns firearms.
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Registration by any means is the goal of most anti-gun groups - a necessity to facilitate confiscation. "It appears that we have an answer to the almost inexplicable question of why ATF is crawling over glass now to reincarnate the format for the 4473 which was junked decades ago."
