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| | Dave Kopel & Glenn Reynolds on guns & terrorism on National Review Online |
 | | Quite plainly, all this means that (1) records aren't supposed to be kept on legal purchases of firearms, and (2) it's illegal to establish a national gun registration system. |
 | | The stated purpose of these records was to audit NICS, to make sure it wasn't being misused (e.g., to ensure that gun dealers were not requesting instant checks on people who were not their customers for example, in case a gun-store owner started requesting background checks on his daughter's boyfriends). |
 | | The NRA sued, arguing that by saying the records had to be destroyed, Congress did not mean they should be destroyed "eventually, when the Attorney General gets around to it." The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, upheld the 180-day record retention. |
| www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel121701.shtml (2646 words) |
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