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Message: <blockquote data-quote="flybeech" data-source="post: 2080641" data-attributes="member: 7557">It appears that many of our Republican legislators are beginning to favor UBC's for each and every transfer of firearms, to "keep us safe" and as a way to appease those who want to eliminate our natural right to self defense, from whatever threat, be it a mugger, or tyranny. I hold several FFL licenses and am required to receive and retain a completed form 4473, as well as perform a NICS check on each person who wants to receive a firearm. While the NICS check doesn't specifically ask the make, model, caliber and serial number of the transferred firearm, it does mandate that I disclose whether the transfer is a hand gun or a long gun. I'm required to record the type, make, model, caliber and serial number of the firearm on the 4473 and retain the document for inspection of the ATF, on demand. Essentially, I am only a storage house for documents that belong to the Federal government.Knowing how the Federal government has become a master of data mining and data collection on every American citizen, why would I have any expectation that the Federal government does nothing with the data collected on the NICS IBC? Since the ATF, FBI or any other Federal agency can at any time merge the information collected with form 4473 documents the FFL is required to house for the ATF, why would a reasonable person believe that the Federal government would NOT retain every bit of data collected in the course of a background check?In other words, if it is presumed the government retains the data collected in a firearms transfer, doesn't it also mean that every firearm sold through the FFL is de-facto registered at transfer?</blockquote>

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