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Seriously, everyone should take 10 minutes and watch this fascinating, frustrating, short documentary about the ATF gun tracing process from the Atlantic. It’s only 5 years old. I would assume not much is changed since then.



So in other words, it's all by design to work around a law that prohibits a national gun registry. They can't have any document searchable by computers and have to do everything manually.

This is absolutely insane.
 
They have to because of the Republican Party being beholden to the NRA. They have laws preventing them from storing gun ownership info digitally. It’s purposely designed to make things more difficult for the ATF.

Pretty fucked up but this is America.
It’s funny because this is a thing that makes it actively easier for criminals to do whatever with weapons.
 
Let me guess, they have a slippery slope attitude towards it, so their fear is if you do this to catch criminals it will be used to restrict guns eventually for law-abiding citizens.
Naw, they have an antiquated and difficult to navigate system to prevent a supposed round up by the government, but in actuality it hinders criminal investigations.
 
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