Stupid or Evil?
Our regular game continues. On the one hand, the Census Bureau asks a lot of intrusive questions they aren’t really entitled to know about, but which Congress has invested them with legal power to demand. On the other, this would be a first pass at trying to identify handguns purchased privately that the Feds couldn’t track using their background check system (which the administrative state wildly abuses to try to construct a functional registry in defiance of Congress’ laws).
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Why not both??
They can ask.
Another answer would be for the companies simply to not retain the records once payment has been received (or not at all, if they trust their customers. There's a concept--people trusting each other).
That would be akin to cell phone sellers not retaining the keys to decrypting their OS and not having access to passwords that cell phone buyers subsequently apply to their phones. And akin to email senders and receivers encrypting their emails, with the ISPs unable to decrypt or to help the government to decrypt the emails because no one but the email senders/receivers have the keys.
I was going to suggest, also, that all Americans buy lots of holsters, like the citizens of another nation all wore stars in response to a requirement that certain people wear stars. But we're too divided at the moment for that to work.
Eric Hines
Eric, not having the records exposes them to getting in trouble with (ARMED) IRS agents requesting audit-trail info. Don't know with certainty about corporate (tax-related) records, but individual tax-related records should be kept for 7 years.
They sure are making a good argument for doing your transactions in cash.
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