I SWEAR I was coming in here to say that... LMFAO! He'd be the only guy in SF that you could buy a gun from - would have cornered the market!!! HAHA! This statement from the article is just plain nuts - not even the BATFE has the authority to do this, and the city police are damn sure not allowed to do it - NOT their jurisdiction, in the least... Not even legal for a city-police entity to enforce... Not in THIS country... The 1986 FOPA, as bad as it was in some areas, prohibited this, and that's a Federal Action that trumps the state, county, and city laws. The Act also forbade the U.S. Government agency from keeping a registry directly linking non-National Firearms Act firearms to their owners, the specific language of this law (Federal Law 18 U.S.C. 926 No such rule or regulation prescribed [by the Attorney General] after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or disposition be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary's authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation. I don't understand why this wasn't challenged by that gun shop before, especially since they state that they had to provide similar information in the past, on a regular basis... The only reason for them to turn anything over to the local police would be from "cooperation," as they only have to do that for the BATFE, when specifically requested by the BATFE, in a current investigation. Unreal...