It is a fact of modern life that sooner or later all paper forms will disappear and be replaced by electronic format. That doesn't mean that "Big Brother" has access to those electronic files through the interwebs. I scan paper documents into my computer every day. I convert paper form to digital forms and fill them out on my computer all the time. They stay right there on my hard drive, unless I want to print them out or send them to somebody else by USPS or electronically (fax, email, FTP or email). Barack Obama and Eric Holder are not sneaking a peek at them. If a 4473 is filled out on paper or on a computer, it stays with the selling dealer in a filing cabinet, on digital media or on a hard drive. The identifying information on the 4473 is not transmitted to ATF. That is not "gun registration". Cars are "registered" to their owners and when you sell them you transfer the registration. That is not the case with guns. An individual selling a gun is no more than an individual selling a wristwatch. We can sell them at will. We can sell them and buy them back, we can sell them to strangers, we can give them away without even knowing or remembering who we sold them to or gave them to. We don't have to remember how much we paid for them or what we sold them for. We don't pay taxes on the "transfer". We don't have to document anything. If Eric Holder ever comes to your door and asks to see one or all of your guns, all you have do say is "I sold it." If they ask who bought it, you say, "I don't remember". End of conversation. If they don't believe you, they can get a warrant and search your house. If you have been stupid enough to lie to them and let them find it, you are in trouble. Anyone who thinks that equals "registration" does not understand the word or is intentionally misusing the term.