Increasing fees, requiring photos and fingerprints as well as the zoning hassle have served as an additional disincentive for people to seek to be FFL's or to renew their licenses. If a dealer from out of state wishes to do business at a gun show, the BATF is now requiring him to sign over all of his show inventory to a local dealer at the beginning of a show. Then, after the show, the dealers must go through all of the same paperwork in reverse, minus any guns that were sold and transferred off the local dealer's books. Clinton would object that he would then have no way of knowing who was buying a gun. The Crime Bill also expanded the ability of police agencies to profit from forfeited property.
Forfeiture is often a euphemism for government theft of private property.
About 80 percent of the over 50,000 property seizures every year have no charges filed. The property just goes into some police department's control, or is sold so they can buy military-style armament or whatever they desire. The Republicans have really been asleep at the switch to let Clinton grab such unconstitutional and dangerous power. We are forgetting at our peril that almost no police powers are vested in the United States, these being reserved to the individual states. Architecht of the Bill of Rights, James Madison, pointed out that the Constitution delegated to the national government police powers only in the areas of counterfeiting, treason, piracy and offenses against the laws of nations.