Gun Owners of America (GOA) and members of Congress are renewing their call for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to destroy approximately 1.4 billion ATF records that they call an illegal gun registry.
ATF Director Robert Cekada and President Donald Trump say ATF databases comply with federal law while providing an important crime-fighting tool.
Cekada tells a story about the widow of a former ATF employee who wanted the agency to generate a list of her husband’s firearms so she could account for them.
“I said, ‘Ma’am, I’m sorry, we can’t do that.’ And she was shocked because she thought, like everyone thinks, that we have this ability. We just don’t,” Cekada told The Epoch Times….