On that earlier post on 'vertical integration of LE',

something noted at Sipsey,

Mind you, the eTrace system upon which this proposal is based is shot full of chaos and inefficiencies -- multiple traces, administrative traces having nothing to do with crime, etc -- and this proposal would provide trace information to people and organizations who, according to one of sources, "have no business in the law to it." And Arends understands the legal mienfield he is proposing to defeat by evasion:

While the ATF’s policy of not sharing one agency’s trace data with another agency does exist, there are still ways in which multiple agencies can work together using trace data.

Fancy way of saying 'there are ways for us to break the policy and the law, and get away with it.'  Just the kind of crap we've come to expect from these people.