The U.S. federal government has amassed records comprising more than 920 million gun sales from the records of firearms dealers who went out of business, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).
In a letter (pdf), the ATF told Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) that as of November 2021, it was holding a database of 920,664,765 firearm purchase records. The letter was obtained and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
