Prohibitions on data collection and use

(a) No state governmental agency or local government, special district or other political subdivision or official, agent or employee of the state or other governmental entity or any other person, public or private, shall knowingly or willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record or registry of the owners of those firearms created or maintained through the use of a firearms code. This subsection shall not apply to any financial institution that is not a merchant servicer or to any record maintained in the ordinary course of business of any financial institution or federal firearm licensee as required by 18 U.S.C. 922.

(b) No merchant servicer shall require the usage of or assign a firearms code or other merchant category code to any merchant located in Wyoming that is a seller of firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition.

(c) Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit or prevent accurate firearm record keeping for any firearm involved in a law enforcement investigation, or any firearm lawfully seized or collected pursuant to a law enforcement investigation.