A.T.F. Trying To Illegally Obtain ‘Purchase Records’ From Gun Stores!

 

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According to gun store owners in Anchorage, ATF agents are requiring
that they submit what is called ’4473 Forms’ going as far back as 2007… ~ Anthony Martin

A report issued on Tuesday by Ammoland Shooting Sports News indicates
that the ATF–the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives–is engaged in new illegal activity, this time in the state of
Alaska.

Form 4473 is
the official form that gun stores require customers to complete when
they purchase a firearm. It is not intended to be a gun registration
form but a sales record containing information on who bought the
firearm, a photo I.D., and the official background check.

The store
owner then records this data in what is called ‘the bound-book,’ which
is kept in perpetuity by the gun store and submitted to the ATF if the
shop goes out of business.

The ATF has the authority to inspect or request a copy of the form if agents are conducting a criminal investigation. 

But nowhere does the law or the rules and regulations of the ATF
permit the agency to require gun stores to simply turn over these
records en mass as a matter of course.

The gun stores in Anchorage are not being told that their records are
being requested as part of a criminal investigation of any kind. The
ATF has not specified certain forms from specific time frames as one
would expect during such an investigation. The agency is telling the
stores that it wants all of these records, in totality, going back to 2007.

Eagle Firearms does a good job at explaining what the law concerning Form 4473 entails:

Here’s some things to note about Form 4473. This form is
not sent to any government agency, its actually kept on file by the
local dealer.

While this form contains the make/model/serial # of the
weapon, plus all your personal information, it is not mailed out
anywhere. The dealer will use this form to run your back ground check
via the FBI NICS system..

However, the background check does not contain any of the following
information:

A) what you bought or its serial # (only if it was a
long-gun or handgun) and

B) whether you actually purchased the firearm
and left with it. As far as the Federal government knows a background
check was run on you and thats about it. They don’t have any record of
what you did or did not purchase.

The only way the feds really ever see that data is in the event of a weapon being used in a crime.

Thus, Form 4473 is not intended to be used by any government agency
as a form of registration. Yet this is precisely what the ATF is doing
in Anchorage, and the gun stores are crying foul.

Ammoland is telling gun dealers throughout Alaska that they are
within their legal rights to refuse to turn over the records to the ATF.

The ATF is already facing a Congressional investigation into its
illegal activity in the Fast and Furious scandal, during which the
agency placed thousands of U.S. guns into the hands of Mexican drug
cartels for the specific purpose of creating false statistics showing
that most of the firearms used by Mexican criminals come from the United
States.

The Obama Administration would then use the false statistics to
make a case for new gun bans and massive new gun control laws,
according to the whistleblower agents who first reported the scheme in
late 2010.

Curiously, the agency is also under fire for using intimidation tactics on
various gun store owners throughout the Rocky Mountain and Western
states, Idaho and Arizona in particular.

The agency has also been shown
to intimidate gun owners themselves, attempting to use firearms
retailers as spies and making visits directly to the homes of citizens who purchase guns.

 

Anthony Martin – April 8, 2012 – posted at GovtSlaves

 

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