ARE THE GUN SHOW REGISTRATION RECORDS CENTRALIZED?
Yes. All of the new licenses and reports must be filed with the Treasury Dept. (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms). Some of the record keeping starts out with the show operators (“notifies each person who attends”), but the feds are granted unqualified access and it will be centrally recorded afterwards (“submits to the Secretary a copy of the ledger” or “notifies the Secretary of the date, time, duration, and location of the special firearms event, the vendors planning to participate” and similar requirements. I suppose it might be more accurate to say that some of the registration “handling” is distributed, though they all end up centralized (even the attendee notice must be submitted to the federal government within five days of the end of the show, at (a)(2)(G)). Show organizers keep their own copies of some of it, under guidelines that are not yet known. Depending on the regulations that have not been written, authorities could easily require filing all papers that are n
