Officials emphasized that the use of the new software is voluntary and that the data entered on the form are not being used to create any sort of government database of gun ownership.Yeah, I believe that. Why wouldn't I?
This isn't the software BATFU...uh...ripped off from a private developer, is it?
A couple things stand out at first glance:
As long as the feds are going to racially profile, does it seem that one group might be conspicuously absent in this post 9/11 era of the War on Terror/ Homeland Security? Oh wait, my mistake--Pacific Islanders are there...
...and apparently filling out a dot is acceptable on the e-form, but entering "Y" or "N" on a paper form is a "willful violation."
Still, we can't entirely discount the benefits of technology. F'rinstance, I can't wait to purchase my tickets to the next Good O' Boys Roundup online...
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My crystal ball says:
With everything so simple and straightforward, how could anyone refuse to register themselves .. excuse me, "provide necessary crime prevention information"? Meaning: when the gun show private transfer "loophole" is closed, it won't really matter because everyone will have "voluntarily" switched to this friendly, kinder, gentler, nosier system. or gone out of business.
That way, when gun owners are approached by someone wanting to buy a gun off-paper, they'll KNOW that they are either:
1. Someone realizing very late that the party is almost over and they missed it;
2. An actual criminal who has run out of criminal friends;
3. An ATF stooge looking to entrap someone.
The System will benefit from the general paranoia this will create.
Except that there are a lot of Henry Bowmans out there, and Henriettas too.
Potential answers are, respectively:
1. If you're not in jail, SURE you can buy a gun. Why not.
2. If you're not in jail, SURE you can buy a gun. Why not.
3. I hope you were nice to the wife and kids this morning so they'll have good memories of you.
See, when they make complying with some rules so impossible that they have to make it impossible NOT to comply with ALL, you know there's little left to lose.
Unfortunately, unlicensed sellers are permitted by law to sell firearms with no background check whatever. Millions of firearms change hands every year through this back-door yet perfectly legal method, giving criminals and terrorists remarkably easy and undetectable access to weapons. This legal loophole must be closed immediately. We can no longer allow the purchase of firearms through the Internet or a newspaper ad, at a gun show or a flea market, or in any other type of sale from an unlicensed seller, without any background check or other record of purchase. The stakes are too high. Eric Holder Jr. 10/25/2001
Now, what reason might the government need a "record" for?
As for the E4473, is it over a secure connection? Is it REALLY secure? Are we able to sue the government when those records lead to identity theft?
Breaking news: A man boarded a train in Baltimore headed for D.C. with an "assault rifle." He was said to have mentioned the White House and other landmarks. When police showed, he tried to run but they caught him when he broke his ankle.
THEY will use this against us in any number of ways.
I ask: Doesn't this sound like the two Klan types who said they were going after Obama, and painted big swastikas and skinhead slogans in red on their old beat-up sedan before they drove in the direction of his neighborhood?
"Look at me! ME! I'm gonna --Ooof!"
"Well, I WAS gonna, but they just watch everybody all the time, and --"
Not yet, fool, but with your encouragement...
"We can no longer allow the purchase of firearms." -- Eric Holder.
There. What he wants to say but can't. Until later, after certain steps have been taken.
Eventually, the FBI will declare that the workload to answer the phones and perform Criminal Background Checks is too large and expensive, and force dealers to go to something like this.
However, if 60% of the violations found during checks are simple human errors, why cant the 4473 be filled in and printed out to maintain error-free records? Just dont hook the damn thing up to the network.
I wouldn't put it past BATFEces to decide later that filling in the dot is a "willful violation". Just because it is technically impossible to do otherwise if using their form won't stop their brand of anti-gun "logic".
Technically Arabs are Asians.
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