So what is the purpose of a 4473 every time we purchase a gun then? Is it reasonable to think it's "just a form" that goes nowhere? It's not entered into a database?
***So what is the purpose of a 4473 every time we purchase a gun then?***
As I said, trade your firearm for another equal to it. When the feds come wanting to know about your old rifle, you can say you no longer have it.
Trade it two or three times is better!
And they certainly don’t have a list of the magazines that go with it!
Without a database, the 4473 is of little value. If you are the first owner of a new gun, there will be a paper trail from the manufacturer to the wholesaler and then to the dealer. If you sell that gun to an individual or to at a different gun store, there is no paper trail from the place you bought it to the place you sold it.
From what I have heard the ATF is keeping an illegal gun database, going into gun shops and scanning in all their 4473s.
***Is it reasonable to think it’s “just a form” that goes nowhere? It’s not entered into a database? ***
Buy your firearm with a 4473. Find someone with the same type rifle, swap. You have just destroyed the paper trail.