The FBI is required to conduct a background check on a person buying a gun. However, the record of that background check is not to be kept more than 24 hours after completion of the check. Senator Frank Lautenberg-Democrat of NJ-is proposing legislation-S 2820-that would require the FBI to maintain those records (the source does not say for how long). It is noted by this source that senators are "more inclined to roll back existing laws that advocates for gun owners consider restrictive, rather than pass new laws".
(Source: "Keeping tabs on gun sales" in Capital Games column by Herb Jackson. The Record on 12/6/09)
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