Interesting Wording on an FFL Website

[2a4all]

That bolded part is completely unnecessary if all they're ensuring is that the person is legal to buy a gun.
Remove the gun-specific info & there's no danger of it being misused as a registration/confiscation scheme.

As for the ID, I've had a dealer tell me that only a state driver's license is acceptable.
Not a passport, not a military ID, not a cc license w/ a picture.

Actually, in Virginia, the form used for the BG Check is a state form, which doesn't record the firearm specifics, only whether it's a handgun or long gun. Class III may be different.

It is difficult (by design) for the Feds to trace a gun, as they don't (generally) have records of firearms from FFLs until the FFL must submit his records, either because the records are old enough (20 years?), or the FFL goes out of business. If they wish to trace a gun, they typically have to start with the manufacturer who directs them to a distributor, who directs them to a dealer, who can look in his records to provide the customer info, but that chain only gets them to the first retail purchaser. Of course, they can put the screws to him/her for info on what happened to the gun. Those paper records that BATFE does have? By law, they're not allowed to scan them into an electronic data base, so they store them on microfiche. Recently, there was an item on ABC Evening News addressing this, and basically touting it as an inefficient use of tax dollars. However, when Senator Chuck Grassley (R Iowa), ranking republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was interviewed about this, he said that it's none of the government's business what guns are owned by whom. Go Chuck!