[Atlas Sneezed]

The Brady law requires background checks before individuals can purchase weapons.

It ALSO requires that the serial number, model, and caliber of each gun be recorded and transmitted to the government.

I guess some of those guns have bad "backgrounds" that need to be checked?

[FreeTally]

It ALSO requires that the serial number, model, and caliber of each gun be recorded and transmitted to the government.

No it doesn't. I don't know what State you live in, but only "long gun" or "hand gun" is transmitted to the government. Yes, I realize that BATF can come into a store and look at the yellow sheets, but that is not quite the same as "transmitting to the government".

[Smokin' Joe]

Actually, the Brady Law required that any and all records of background checks of aprooved purchases be destroyed, not maintained in a database as is being done. Only the yellow sheets were to remain...

If Ashcroft follows the letter of the law, background check records for purchases which were allowed to continue should be eliminated.