The GQ article says the ATF "got permission" to scan the 4437s into computer pdf files. Then those pdf files are searched by a trace technician, viewing them on a computer screen. With the advent of artificial intelligence there is no doubt an AI computer can or will be able to learn to read those pdf images to search for the subject gun's 4437. So there will be/is a database. If I am right the conversion to pdf files violates the 1986 law.

I wonder who Charlie "got permission" from?


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