BATF Illegally Registering?

BATF Special Agent Pat Hynes let the cat out of the bag on ABC Day 1, Monday
night: that the bureau has computerized 60 million out-of-business gun dealer
records.  That's a DOUBLE NO-NO!

BATF has long sought such authority, and there have been persistent rumors
that they were doing such computerization despite Sec. 926 of the Gun Control
Act McClure-Volkmer amendments.  It prohibits "any system of registration of
firearms," owners or transactions.

Also, the Treasury appropriations law has for several years prohibited such
computerization of records.  BATF attempted to get that provision removed
from this year's appropriation bill.

Hynes was taking ABC host Forrest Sawyer through the old-records warehouse and
said, "Right now there's 20 million records here.  We've already computerized
60 million."

That Day 1 program was otherwise most memorable for a copletely distortion of
the history of the Second Amendment.

Neal and Jay Knox and NRA E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre are to appear in a Day 1
segment recorded last month and currently scheduled for June 6.