Josh Hawley: “Speaking of registries, my understanding is that sitting…”

“Or what if they open up that Adobe document in some other type of document they would still be able to search by name. So the only answer that we really have is to delete the registry. Speaking of registries, my understanding is that sitting right now in a warehouse in West Virginia and you describe this in your Testimony, is roughly 1 billion gun owner records, 94% of them that are already in digital format. Yes. Now, federal law is supposed to prohibit a national gun registry, but I'm wondering, what would you call that? We call that a register. Looks like it to me, too.” (02:10–02:26)

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