[Carry_Okie]

Authorities should use the background check database as a way to find assault weapon purchasers who might not have registered those guns in compliance with the new law.

If I recall correctly, that database is to be purged after the check has been made. They wouldn't use an illegal database to go after "lawbreakers" defying an unconstitutional law still under adjudication, would they? /s

[grobdriver]

If I recall correctly, that database is to be purged after the check has been made.

Mostly correct:

Background Check Records:
As of July 2004, approved purchaser information must be destroyed within 24 hours of the official NICS response to the dealer.20 This destruction requirement has been imposed in appropriations bills as part of the so-called “Tiahrt Amendments,” named after their chief proponent Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). As a result, ATF inspectors are no longer able to compare the information on file with the dealer to the information the dealer submitted to NICS.21 For more information about the Tiahrt Amendments, see our summary on Gun Trafficking & Straw Purchases.

http://smartgunlaws.org/maintaining-gun-sales-background-check-records-policy-summary/

[headstamp 2]

“If I recall correctly, that database is to be purged after the check has been made. They wouldn’t use an illegal database to go after “lawbreakers” defying an unconstitutional law still under adjudication, would they? /s “

Then we have the Form 4473 can of worms yet to be opened.

[itsahoot]

If I recall correctly, that database is to be purged after the check has been made.

Well I certainly trust that they deleted every one of those background checks, don't you? </s>

Once you have applied for a background check you have, for all intents and purposes, registered your gun.