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In reply to the discussion: KY Highway shooter arrested recently for making terroristic threats - was allowed to buy gun w/ 2000 rounds yesterday [View all]
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(17,111 posts)He seems to be conflating the FBI with the ATF and also conflating criminal records & NICS (background checks) with firearms purchase records.
FBI maintains NICS and it is definitely computerized. That accounts for the "instant" in National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). They typically give the dealer an approval/disapproval within minutes. You couldn't do that if you had to rummage through warehouses of paper records.
Firearms purchase records are maintained by the dealer. When the dealer goes out of business, the records are sent to the ATF. Those records are paper and prohibited by law to be computerized, so as to not create a national registry.
Dennis, have you found @davegreenidge57 to be a reliable source in the past?
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