60 Minutes Can't Get It Right In a repeat of its January story mistakenly claiming that no permanent federal records are kept on retail sales of firearms, 60 Minutes Sunday re-broadcast an attack on ownership of .50 caliber rifles. In it they repeated Violence Policy Center's Tom Diaz's clearly misleading answer to an Ed Bradley question you'll read at the end of the story transcript: "Aren't records kept when a gun is sold," asks Bradley. "The answer is no," says Diaz. Bradley mentions that redundant records of successfully passed criminal background checks are no longer held for more than a day after the FBI approves the gun purchase, but ignores permanent records kept of all retail sales since 1968. NSSF will again be contacting the journalists at CBS to enlighten them about the existence of these permanent records used by federal law enforcement for prosecutions under the Don't Lie for the Other Guy program and in criminal investigations of those who break the myriad of firearms laws. At least CBS allowed .50 caliber manufacturer Ronnie Barrett the opportunity to shoot down assertions that Barrett Firearms sales brochures claimed his rifles were designed to attack aircraft in flight.