• Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The NRA specifically lobbied to prohibit digital databasing of guns, gun owners, and gun sales. All gun traces are done by filing through paper copies of form 4473.

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        correct, it’s needfully inefficient because people are opposed to an easily searchable database of gunowners

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          No, gun owners are opposed to gun owner databases because then they might be held accountable for their reckless and/or antisocial attitude towards their weapons.