Florida Lawmaker Seeks To Create Nationwide Gun Registry

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gun zealots like to grandstand. They’ll use any opportunity to try and do so.

Ostensibly, they’ll claim their efforts are necessary to at least draw attention to the issue of gun control as if the American public has been oblivious to the debate despite the near constant barrage by the mainstream media.

Ultimately, though, they tend to betray their deepest, darkest desires regardless of any rhetoric to the contrary. Take, for example, the latest effort to pop up.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson introduced legislation this week that would create a national gun registry.

Known as the “Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act,” the bill would require ATF to set up a “searchable, computerized database” of all records pertaining to the sale, importation, production or shipment of firearms. The agency would be given three years to get the system up and running.

“The fact that there is a law on the books that forces agents to comb through millions of files by hand is absolutely ridiculous,” said Nelson, a Florida Democrat.

Under current federal law Big Brother is prohibited from tracking gun purchases. All transfer records remain in the possession of an FFL until a firearm is involved in a crime. Then, investigators …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms