The NRA and Michigan gun rights groups have filed Moser v. Nessel, a federal Second Amendment lawsuit challenging Michigan’s pistol purchase permit and state-maintained handgun registry.
ATF Director Robert Cekada faced House Oversight questioning over the agency’s handling of protected gun trace data, the Tiahrt Amendment, and growing concerns that ATF’s massive digitized records system edges too close to the national gun registry Congress banned.
ATF has long claimed its digitized gun records are not a registry because they are not searchable by buyer name. A new Firearms Research Center paper warns that artificial intelligence could make that excuse obsolete.