That's illegal, for Sec. 926 of the Gun Control Act prohibits those records from being compiled into such a central registration system. Similarly, as the application notes, many of the records being compiled into the system are being destroyed - as required by Pennsylvania and Federal laws designed to prohibit this very type of system.
Men fight for freedom, and then pass laws to take it away.
The companies were asked to provide a written response within a week. Someone realized that what they were doing was a violation of Sec. Nevertheless, there was a meeting between FBI and firearms industry representatives Aug. 31 at the FBI Firearms Training Unit at Quantico.