The Liberty Loft WASHINGTON — An internal document from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) showed alarming data suggesting a back-door national gun registry may be underway.
The document showed that the ATF processed nearly 55 million out-of-business records in Fiscal Year 2021. When the ATF processes such closures of licensed gun stores, the records pertaining to gun transactions fall into the ATF’s hands, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
Aidan Johnston, the director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America, said: “As if the addition of over 50 million records to an ATF gun registry wasn’t unconstitutional or illegal enough, the Biden administration’s misuse of ‘out-of-business’ records doesn’t end there. Instead of maintaining the right of [licensed firearm dealers] to destroy Firearm Transaction Records after 20 years, buried within (President Joe) Biden’s proposed regulations is a provision that would mean every single Firearm Transaction Record going forward would eventually be sent to ATF’s registry in West Virginia.”
