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Old March 15, 2010, 12:41 PM   #13
johnwilliamson062
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The 4473 is kept at the dealer unless the dealer goes out of business, then I believe they are shipped to the ATF, and they're not going to pay people to look through them all, it's just for storage.
Well, they do catalogue them by shop, so when they find a gun used in a crime they can link it to the shop then go through the shops files to see who bought it whether the shop is in business or not. I am not sure they actually do this all that often though. I don't doubt for a minute the federal gov't would be willing to have people go through these files and form a database though(if it were legal). It would be far from the most expensive or most wasteful project the federal government ever undertook.
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