Bill Aims to Set Record Straight on
What "No Registration" Really Means
By John Petrolino. Mar 30, 2022
As gun owners and Second Amendment advocates, we've suffered through some extreme unprecedented infringements of our rights inflicted upon us by the US Government (and more are on the way). While there has been very little ground surrendered to the anti-freedom caucus legislatively from the halls of Congress recently, we've been getting beat over the head by executive overreach. It's not hyperbole to say that there are many in our government that wish to see an unarmed population. Part of the scheme in order to carry out any plan to disarm Americans is the creation of a registration database. A recently introduced bill seeks to completely codify that the government must destroy records illegally being held.
On March 7, 2022 Representative Paul A. Gosar introduced H.R.6950 No Gun Lists Act of 2022. The title of the bill should tell everyone exactly what the intent is. Not to call out any one governmental agency over another, but the ATF has been allegedly up to no good, and they've been electronically storing and keeping information from form 4473's they've collected.
The full text of the bill:
A BILL
To require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to eliminate its Enterprise Content Management Imaging Repository System, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "No Gun Lists Act of 2022".
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES ELIMINATE ITS ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT IMAGING REPOSITORY SYSTEM.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives shall immediately eliminate its Enterprise Content Management Imaging Repository System, and shall not establish or maintain any system or database which contains information similar to the information in that system.
SEC. 3. PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.
A person aggrieved by a violation of section 2 may bring an action against the United States in any Federal district court for damages and injunctive relief. The court shall award a plaintiff prevailing in the action such relief as the court deems appropriate, including reasonable attorneys' fees.
SEC. 4. WAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.
The United States, all agencies and instrumentalities thereof, and all individuals, firms, corporations, other persons acting for the United States and with the authorization and consent of the United States, shall not be immune from suit in Federal or State court by any person, including any governmental or nongovernmental entity, for any violation of section 2.
This is about as cut and dried as it gets. The Congressman identified a problem; the ATF keeping a database/gun registry. The Congressman came up with a solution; the abolishment of the system housing our data.
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This may be only a first stage and with debatable possibility of success, but there is little doubt that records are being archived by the ATF despite violating its deletion policy requirements, in particular when FFLs close and have to surrender transaction documents which then get retained.
