[WayneS]

He also says a recent program called e-trace, an electronic database that can trace the manufacture, import, sale and ownership of guns will be helpful here in the U-S...

If "e-trace" tracks ownership, doesn't it violent several existing federal law?

[Celtic Cross]

I don't think it violents any federal laws. Violating federal laws, on the other hand...

[WayneS]

Why YES, WayneS, it does:

The 1986 Firearms Owners’ Protection Act specifically forbids registration of firearms records at 18 U.S.C. 926(a):

No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established.

PS - Please excuse me "talking to myself", but immediately after I posted I remembered the above section of the federal law...

[exbrit]

That was my first thought also.

[Pan_Yan]

doesn't it violent several existing federal law?

Given the current mood of the country that could have been a Freudian slip.