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.
Conforming amendments
(A)Elimination of prohibition on establishment of centralized firearm registration system
Section 926(a) of such title is amended by striking the 2nd sentence.
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.
Would be a crying shame if those containers caught fire.
....with selected shitgress ociffials in it
Actually, was just reading it: