How does this add anything to the data collection that takes place via FA-10/eFA-10 forms? I'm not in favor of data collection in any form, but it's been required for years.
The web portal will be a wholesale replacement for the FA-10 system.
If the FRBbies have been doing their jobs, they scan the paper and the computer checks on scanning, then if the LTC doesn't "scan" or is rejected, they would manually verify the licensure.
More likely, they scan the form and those that work, work and those that don't, don't and get thrown away or stacked in underwater storage rooms, as in the past.
Either way, the result is a database that is horrifyingly dirty and corrupt. As I don't believe they have any right to that data, that is fine with me. Whether they have a right to screen transfers at all is another matter.
It also makes each and every one of us an agent of law enforcement. With a paper FA10, our responsibility is to view the other person's LTC and fill in some paperwork, then mail it in. If the other person is prohibited it is the State's duty to locate him and prosecute.
These transfers will take place in private homes, libraries or public wifis and if rejected, the hapless and innocent seller is expected to tell this person that turns out to be a felon that he can pound sand. Rather than completing the sale and safely leaving he tells this "dangerous" person the sale can't proceed and of course the felon will rob and murder him.
Lets say the seller does escape with his life and property intact. Who will go find the felon that tried to buy a gun? The FRBbies that can't even be bothered to mail out paper forms?
Society is harmed at least three ways by this: 1) exposing civilians to law enforcement risks. 2) doing so without compensating the civilian, and 3) by reducing the opportunity to capture the dangerous gun collecting felon.
While I took some artistic license in describing the possibilities, they are possibilities. We're being placed in danger against our will and the state is unlikely to follow up on these "infractions" since the transfer never actually took place.