The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - background checks and ATF forms, ATF keep?

**Tom Servo** · March 25, 2013, 11:30 PM

The NICS background check system is administered by the FBI, not the ATF. If the background check is a proceed, the law requires the information to be deleted within 24 hours.

The ATF can request specific 4473's in conjunction with a trace, but they are forbidden from maintaining any sort of database of 4473's in general.

March 25, 2013, 11:30 PM	#7
Tom Servo Staff Join Date: September 27, 2008 Location: Foothills of the Appalachians Posts: 13,059	The NICS background check system is administered by the FBI, not the ATF. If the background check is a proceed, the law requires the information to be deleted within 24 hours. The ATF can request specific 4473's in conjunction with a trace, but they are forbidden from maintaining any sort of database of 4473's in general. __________________ Sometimes it’s nice not to destroy the world for a change. --Randall Munroe