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Federal Firearms Licensee Data: ATF's Compliance with Statutory Restrictions

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 11, 1996
Report No. GGD-96-174
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Summary:

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) issues various categories of federal firearms licenses, including those for manufacturers, importers, and dealers of firearms. Firearms dealers licenses are granted to dealers and pawnbrokers who sell guns at wholesale or retail and to gunsmiths who repair firearms. This report, the last in a series of GAO reports on ATF, reviews ATF's compliance with legislative restrictions on maintaining federal firearms licensee data. Concerns have been raised that ATF has not been complying with the restrictions on centralizing and consolidating data from federal firearms licensee records. GAO (1) identifies and describes the ATF data systems that contain retail firearms purchaser data and (2) determines whether ATF's Out-of-Business Records System and Multiple Sales System comply with the legislative data restrictions. GAO also assesses ATF's overall legal interpretation of the data restrictions.

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