The ATF created a backdoor gun registry. Lawmakers want an explanation.

ATF’s Hidden Gun Registry: How a ‘Tracing System’ Became a Billion-Record Database

Featured image generated by Grok AI (xAI) for AmmoLand. Washington, D.C. — A new report from Reason confirms what AmmoLand has been warning American gun owners about for years: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has quietly built what amounts to a backdoor gun registry — in violation of federal law. On February 3, Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) and 26 colleagues demanded answers from ATF about the scale and legality of this…

The ATF created a backdoor gun registry. Lawmakers want an explanation.

It has been illegal since 1986 for the federal government to establish a national firearms registry. As you might expect of the sort of people who gravitate to government employment, the bureaucrats at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), enabled by Biden-era policy changes, have taken that as a challenge. Now, members of Congress want answers from the federal gun cops about a vast gun registry database that could thre…