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IC 24-5-27.5-20: Prohibition against keeping list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or of the owners of firearms; exceptions

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  1. TITLE 24. TRADE REGULATION
  2. ARTICLE 5. CONSUMER SALES
  3. Chapter 27.5. Privacy of Firearms Financial Transactions

Sec. 20. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), or as otherwise required by law, a governmental entity or any other person, public or private, shall not knowingly or willfully keep or cause to be kept any:

(1) list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms; or

(2) list, record, or registry of the owners of firearms;

with respect to Indiana consumers.

(b) Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to the following:

(1) Records kept during the regular course of a criminal investigation or prosecution.

(2) Records kept by the owner of privately owned firearms.

(3) Records kept in the regular course of business by a firearms retailer.

(4) Information submitted to a law enforcement agency in connection with an application for a license to carry a handgun under IC 35-47-2-3, subject to the limitations set forth in IC 35-47-2-3(n) and IC 35-47-2-3(o).

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