As the federal government rolls out its sweeping artificial intelligence strategy—ingesting “all government data” into machine learning models—gun owners have every reason to be alarmed.
Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, recently confirmed that “all the government data that the government has is going to be ingested into models” to improve citizen services, including permits, taxes, and healthcare. That’s not just parking passes and passports—that potentially includes firearm transaction records, too.
This raises a red flag for anyone following the ATF’s quiet construction of a digital database of gun owner records—a practice that violates federal law but has continued for years under both Democrat and Republican administrations. Despite clear legal prohibitions against a centralized registry, the ATF currently maintains nearly one billion firearm transaction records, many of them digitized and partially searchable.
The Database That Shouldn’t Exist
According to FOIA responses and internal ATF memos, the Bureau receives millions of out-of-business dealer records every month. These records include sensitive data from ATF Form 4473s—name, address, firearm description, and more. Although ATF claims that this information can’t be searched by name, it’s only because that feature is “disabled”—not deleted. With just a few keystrokes, ATF could turn this passive database into an active weapon against gun owners.
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