The Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act: AKA Federal Gun Registry

[RugersGR8]

The Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act: AKA Federal Gun Registry
Guns & Gadgets
Published on Feb 18, 2020

 

[gerhard1]

From Sen. Durbin's website:

02.14.20
Durbin, Senators Introduce Gun Safety Bill To Allow Preservation & Disclosure Of Federal Gun Data

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) to introduce bicameral legislation to greatly enhance the ability of law enforcement to investigate and solve gun crimes, crack down on gun trafficking and negligent gun dealers, and allow researchers to study gun violence and its impact on communities across the country. The Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act would enable the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to collect, preserve, and disclose gun records and gun tracing data.

“The gun violence epidemic has seeped into every corner of American life, reaching our children’s schools and our neighborhoods. To reduce this violence, we need to make effective use of all the data and analytic tools at our disposal, including crime gun tracing,” Durbin said. “This legislation will remove archaic restrictions on data that have hampered our ability to solve and prevent gun crimes.”

Since 2003, Republicans have restricted the ability of the ATF and FBI to collect, preserve, and make public a range of gun records and data by attaching so called “Tiahrt Amendments” to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) yearly funding bill. The Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act would repeal the following Tiahrt provisions:

• End the prohibition on ATF from releasing firearm trace data for use by cities, states, researchers, litigants, and members of the public;

• End the requirement for the FBI to destroy all approved gun purchaser records within 24 hours of approval;

• End the provision that makes it extremely difficult for ATF to retrieve firearms from prohibited persons who are mistakenly sold guns or from gun owners who become ineligible to possess guns;

• End the prohibition on ATF requiring gun dealers to submit their inventories to law enforcement; (Gun dealer inventories facilitate enforcement of the federal law requiring dealers to report the loss or theft of firearms and help law enforcement oversee the more than 50,000 firearms dealers nationwide. According to a 2008 analysis by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, more than 30,000 guns in the inventories of firearms dealers were unaccounted for in 2007.)

• End the prohibition on public disclosure of data on multiple handgun sales, as well as gun sales information dealers are required to keep that may be required to be reported to the U.S. Attorney General for determining the disposition of one or more firearms in the course of a bona fide criminal investigation.

 

[BobbyV]

From Sen. Durbin's website:
The Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act would repeal the following Tiahrt provisions:

• End the prohibition on ATF from releasing firearm trace data for use by cities, states, researchers, litigants, and members of the public;

Wonder what their justification is for wanting this removed? I mean other than allowing litigants to sue gun manufacturers and dealers more easily.

• End the requirement for the FBI to destroy all approved gun purchaser records within 24 hours of approval;

This is the biggie that they're after IMO. They want this data to be subject to FOIA requests, etc. to start a pseudo registry.

• End the provision that makes it extremely difficult for ATF to retrieve firearms from prohibited persons who are mistakenly sold guns or from gun owners who become ineligible to possess guns;

Would love to see stats on how often this happens and what LEOs do about it when the find out it has happened.

• End the prohibition on ATF requiring gun dealers to submit their inventories to law enforcement; (Gun dealer inventories facilitate enforcement of the federal law requiring dealers to report the loss or theft of firearms and help law enforcement oversee the more than 50,000 firearms dealers nationwide. According to a 2008 analysis by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, more than 30,000 guns in the inventories of firearms dealers were unaccounted for in 2007.)

Inventories are supposed to be checked when ATF shows up to complete their site reviews, etc.

• End the prohibition on public disclosure of data on multiple handgun sales, as well as gun sales information dealers are required to keep that may be required to be reported to the U.S. Attorney General for determining the disposition of one or more firearms in the course of a bona fide criminal investigation.

FFLs are supposed to submit a form when a person purchase multiple handguns to local law enforcement. Why does the public need access to this information? I mean other than to allow someone to request it via FOIA and lawyers to use it to their benefits in cases involving firearms.

 

[BobbyV]

NRA-ILA info on the Tiahrt Amendment . . .

 

[KOPBET]

But it fo da childwen...

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

It's for the despotic tyrannical dictator wannabes. If you would rather live at the muzzle end of a gun than holding on to the grip, then support this bill.

Woody

You can live free holding the stock and possibly never have to pull the trigger, or you can try to live free at the muzzle. I prefer to hold the stock and live free. Those at the muzzle never seem to fare quite so well. B.E.Wood

 

[Fredkrueger100]

I always love how they say we have an epidemic of gun violence. That is a blatant lie. We don’t even have anything close to an epidemic. They always use that to scare the sheep. If people bothered to do some research they would find out gun crime ain’t near as bad as they think.

 

[Profreedomokie]

I say put more effort in the " War On Drugs" and most gun crime will go away.

 

[OKCHunter]

I always love how they say we have an epidemic of gun violence. That is a blatant lie. We don’t even have anything close to an epidemic. They always use that to scare the sheep. If people bothered to do some research they would find out gun crime ain’t near as bad as they think.

Exactly, what the gun grabbers fail to mention is that many of the gun deaths they associate with an “epidemic” are actually suicide related.

 

[CorpsVet]

I always love how they say we have an epidemic of gun violence. That is a blatant lie. We don’t even have anything close to an epidemic. They always use that to scare the sheep. If people bothered to do some research they would find out gun crime ain’t near as bad as they think.

But I have on good authority, no less than Joe Biden himself, that 150 million people in the U.S. have been killed by guns since 2007! That's half the population man!! That qualifies as "an epidemic" in my books !!!