NFATCA Official Statement on Presidential Action

[LeonR]

What about Petition 1209 (PDF)?

This part of the PDF gives me worry. I have my entire family on my trust. If a family of 6 gets 10 stamps then that's 60 sets of fingerprints and photos. That is a lot of hoops to go through which will "unduly burden the law abiding public, will restrain lawful commerce."

We request that
• 479.63 and 479.85 be amended to require photographs and fingerprints of persons responsible for directing the legal entity;

Keep in mind I'd support low resistance measures like a NICS check. Or even fingerprints in states that don't keep up their NICS database (as long as fingerprints are good for a while). But in the day and age where oil filter suppressors are sold on ebay and commonly displayed on YouTube I don't see much of a point in the repeated fingerprinting of all trust members. Substitution costs are way to low for criminals. That is unless the whole point of your actions is to protect the purity of NFA and not really reduce crime.