With little fanfare, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2012 amended its Form 4473 — the transactional record the government requires gun purchasers and sellers to fill out when buying a firearm — to identify buyers as either Hispanic, Latino or not. Then a buyer must check his or her race: Indian, Asian, black, Pacific Islander or white.
Requiring the race and ethnic information of gun buyers is not required by federal law and provides little law enforcement value, legal experts say.
Just like the last US Census , no where is there a place to list yourself as American .
That is my race .