[ShadowAce]

I guess tax-wise they have to have a record of sales... but is it necessary that names and addresses be recorded, that would be my question.

The answer is "NO"

80% blanks are--legally--just hunks of steel and have nothing whatever to do with the gun industry.

[ShadowAce]

Actually—hunks of aluminum. Not steel. Sorry about that.

[grobdriver]

80% blanks are--legally--just hunks of steel

Right - got it. So are fender washers. BATF&E and the law? There is no intersection.

Businesses need to make it clear to their customers that some future administration won't be able to get a court order for sales history from one of these companies - because they will have no sales history - because they have a policy of destroying any record that has a name and address on it after the item is sent.

Which means I can't be buying these things on line with a credit card...

Am I being paranoid enough? Time will tell.