Keith:

"Although Gun Registration is not legal, the government has been accumulating all of this data. When a FFL dealer quits, dies, or retires, all of his bound ledger books go to the BATF"

I think this above point is well known but I have never been able to find out exactly what the BATF does with these turned in records. If they are just using them to trace a firearm from it's initial sale to the original owner that's probably fine if the gun does turn up as one used in a crime.
However; I have long suspected there records are being computerized as the start of an online registration system but can't prove it.
My intent is to NOT want to redirect this thread and agree we must resist a gun registration system at all costs.
Perhaps you or some other member here can clarify this?
Jim

The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.