Originally Posted by August

There is no restraint in this case as the states already keep such records on their own. Take criminal records for instance. Without a national data base a person can have a criminal record long as your arm in one state but come out squeekly clean on a backround check done in another.

As long as we resist any and all attempts to consolidate these records on a national level, guns purchased from legal sources are going to keep getting into the wrong hands which will keep giving ammunition (pun intended) to those who would take RKBA away from all of us.