The demands include buyer names and addresses, dates of sale, firearm details such as make, model, serial number, and caliber, and whether the firearms were sold to civilians or law enforcement. The subpoenas also seek information on how dealers obtained Glock inventory, contracts or agreements with Glock, communications with Glock concerning sales, marketing, “switches,” or automatic-fire capability, and records related to advertising and marketing directed at New Jersey customers.
Those who support gun ownership are concerned that compiling these buyer lists in litigation could expose personally identifiable information and serve as a step toward broader tracking or future confiscation efforts.
“What’s funny is these folks want all the gun records, but they don’t want to give the federal government voting records,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Harmeet Dhillon, noting the irony.
Democrats are now using a background-check system that wrongly denies more than 99 percent of blocked gun purchases to help build a gun registry to facilitate confiscation. Those errors overwhelmingly burden law-abiding black and Hispanic men, who are disproportionately caught in mistaken denials despite having committed no disqualifying offense. The claim that gun registration is a useful tool for solving crimes is also false. …
New Jersey’s lawsuit against Glock goes far beyond targeting criminals who illegally modify firearms. By demanding detailed records on lawful gun buyers while advancing questionable claims about how these conversions actually work, the state is moving toward the type of firearm registry that gun owners have long feared.
— John R. Lott, Jr. in The subpoenas demanding buyer names, addresses, and serial numbers from every New Jersey Glock dealer aren’t just about crime.