No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act (S119)

Current understanding

Introduced legislation (S119) that would eliminate the current requirement for federal firearms licensees (FFLs) going out of business to transfer their firearm transaction records (ATF Form 4473 and A&D records) to the ATF, and would additionally require the ATF to destroy all such out-of-business FFL records it currently holds. Supporters frame it as preventing what they characterize as a de facto federal firearms registry; opponents note the records are used to trace firearms recovered in criminal investigations when the originating dealer is no longer in business. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2025-01-16 — No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act: cross-connection with atf-ffl-record-retention-periods: Both address how long ATF/FFLs retain firearm transaction records; S119 targets out-of-business FFL records specifically while the retention-periods rulemaking sets caps on active FFL A&D record retention. (novelty: 3)

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