As part of the Firearm Owners Protection act of 1986, which revised the Gun Control Act of 1968 per section 18 U.S.C. 926 the U.S. Government was forbade from creating or keeping a registry directly linking non NFA firearms to persons who reside in the United States.
The Government is allowed to maintain records on Firearms involved in an active investigation of a crime, but not on the sole basis of ownership.
The exact text is
No such rule or regulation prescribed [by the Attorney General] after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or disposition be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary's authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.
The text presented on Congress.gov says what they want the bill to do but nothing about how they actually intend to do it, including striking FOPA 86, that's why I said this is dead on arrival. It's a wishlist, not legislation.
Not that I'd expect anything of honest effort, intelligence or familiarity with the subject matter from the Right Honorable Representative Sheila Lee of Texas.
Before, obviously. I'm talking about the law as it currently stands and the limited power we have through the courts until total corruption is the primary concern.
If they pack the Court then their corruption is complete and nothing we may or may not do matters at all.
Oh for sure, still worth fighting to show them that we won't tolerate this shit, but it's not something worth worrying over, Being mad about sure but, there's other bills to take more serious coming up.
This is literally illegal.
Not that that will stop them but, yaknow. This shit's dead on arrival, infuriating, but impotent.
How do? Unless you mean in the same sense that all gun control is illegal... in which case, that hasn't prevented enforcement.
As part of the Firearm Owners Protection act of 1986, which revised the Gun Control Act of 1968 per section 18 U.S.C. 926 the U.S. Government was forbade from creating or keeping a registry directly linking non NFA firearms to persons who reside in the United States.
The Government is allowed to maintain records on Firearms involved in an active investigation of a crime, but not on the sole basis of ownership.
The exact text is
at Federal Law 18 U.S.C. 926
This is part of why the ATF's 4473 records are either in shipping containers in a parking lot, or scanned into non searchable PDF files (which there has been some mild legal action about even this effort to maintain 4473's) to resist compliation of a "computerized database" which they tried to do and had to delete.
I believe this new bill specifically strikes that provision.
The text presented on Congress.gov says what they want the bill to do but nothing about how they actually intend to do it, including striking FOPA 86, that's why I said this is dead on arrival. It's a wishlist, not legislation.
Not that I'd expect anything of honest effort, intelligence or familiarity with the subject matter from the Right Honorable Representative Sheila Lee of Texas.
" This shit's dead on arrival, infuriating, but impotent."
Before or after they pack the supreme court to the sky and can make the constitution a "living document" (AKA garbage trash that is meaningless)
Before, obviously. I'm talking about the law as it currently stands and the limited power we have through the courts until total corruption is the primary concern.
If they pack the Court then their corruption is complete and nothing we may or may not do matters at all.
Oh for sure, still worth fighting to show them that we won't tolerate this shit, but it's not something worth worrying over, Being mad about sure but, there's other bills to take more serious coming up.