The ATF may go wireless, nationwide.
The Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has announced plans to field a nationwide wireless broadband telecommunications and Web portal. The agency said in a procurement notice issued last week that it seeks to award a contract by November for a wireless system based on technology from iPass.As it pressures gun shops to fork out significant amounts of dough for certain record keeping software.
Ryan Horsely questions if they are creating a gun registry. And forcing not just computerized systems, but certain computerized systems on gun dealers would make that a lot easier, all in the name of efficiency.
Clayton Cramer asks:
...is it possible that some sort of corrupt deal has been made by some ATF bureaucrat to require a particular software vendor's system? If you don't buy a system from a particular vendor, you get extra special scrutiny, and then get closed down for trivial errors on paper forms?Via the War on Guns and Instapundit.
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