While researching the gun control debate in the US, this caught my eye:
Mr Biden also accused the nation's top gun rights lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), of spreading disinformation, and promised expanded background checks would not lead to a national gun registry.
Source: US Senate opens first gun control debate in years - BBC
Does the Toomey-Manchin background check proposal include a federal gun registry or not? And if not, does it include provisions that may lead to a federal gun registry in the near future?