I have a question that I doubt anyone here can answer but it ought to give you all pause. There has to have been literally thousands of former FFL holders bound books turned in over the years. Understanding this; there should be a large storage facility of these bound ledgers on file. If an inquiry for a firearm used in a crime goes from manufacturer to distributor to FFL holder to the consumer and the FFL holder has turned in their records how does the BATF do the search? Do they go digging thru piles of musty bound 4473s? One has to wonder if they have been surreptiously encoding these onto a data base over the years?
Jim
