Is Open Carry for whites only or would someone explain

[Lee-Lee]

117. You are only partially correct

Dealers must keep records, yes. Of the sale. Not all sales require background checks, they either document there was a BG check done or the reason it wasn't.

However, they can only trace from the manufacturer on the first sale of a new gun.

Just a few months ago I bought my dad a 40 year old shotgun at a dealer as a gift for his birthday. Who knows how many dealers that has been bought or sold at, but if they went to Mossberg and asked for records they would at best get a record to a shop that sold it 40 years ago and is probably long gone.

I filled out the form 4473, and it will be on file. But the only people who know the 4473 for that shotgun is at that gun shop are me and the dealer. I was exempt for the background check since I have a CCW, but had they called one in any record of that would have been destroyed in 24 hours, leaving the federal government with no record i had purchased a gun that day.

The vast majority of guns sold are used guns, and it goes just like that. On a fairly "young" gun they can usually trace from owner to shop to owner and track history, but when you get one a few decades old that most likely isn't happening.