It would be absurd to think that the Congress would adopt and maintain a web of statutes intended to protect against the creation of a national gun registry, while simultaneously authorizing the FBI and the NSA to gather records that could effectively create just such a registry…. Congress has consistently acted to protect the privacy interests of gun owners…
From the NRA’s new brief supporting the ACLU’s legal challenging the NSA’s massive database of phone records under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. More at Hillicon Valley.