The Associated Press is reporting today that around the nation the ATF and DEA is hunting down gun owners who lawfully purchased firearms from information gathered from the background-check system and from records acquired from gun dealers. Although American citizens were promised that such check systems wouldn't be used to target gun owners and federal law prohibits the creation of a database for gun owners, government agencies are indeed using information gathered from sales to infringe second amendment rights of citizens.
Here's how it goes: Any number of federal agencies who have a pretend jurisdiction in an area visit gun stores to acquire records of what weapons were sold to what people. This is to evade the federal law prohibiting the government from preventing a database. The agency looks for "weapons known to be popular among drug traffickers" or "gang members" and then start knocking doors to find the citizen who legally purchased the firearm. When they find the citizen, the agency asks to see the weapon, why they purchased the weapon, and how they got the money to buy the weapon.
For example, in Texas some agents found in a dealer's records that a citizen in nearby town purchased two handguns in the same day (which is legal in Texas). They then hunted the man down and asked him many questions concerning the purchase and asked to see the handguns (note that it would not have been illegal for the man to have immediately sold them -without record- to another citizen...because this is America, after all). Also, when the Feds do this type of thing, as they did in this instance, they do not utilize a search warrant. Brandishing their government-issue side-arms and badge while in civilian clothing, the agents intimidate the citizen and insinuate that a crime had been committed with his gun. In the instance in Texas, the gun owner turned out to be a pastor who had purchased the pistols for target shooting.
Another instance given by the AP was that a woman had purchased four handguns in the same day (again, legal in Texas). The federal agents tracked down her home and saw that it was a lower-income home in disrepair. Assuming that she must have therefore purchased the guns for trafficking, they went knocking door-to-door to her neighbors to find out where she was, what they thought of her, and why she would have wanted a handgun.
Am I wrong, or is this America? Can this be happening?
This is being done in the name of illegal immigration, gun and drug trafficking. Mexican gangsters are coming to America, after all, to purchase their guns.
Let me get this right. Instead of enforcing immigration law and shutting off the flow of illegals into the U.S., our government would rather ignore immigration law and shut off the flow of guns to U.S. citizens. Unbelievable. How about instead of harassing citizens, put up a wall and strict border security. But the Obama administration is too busy arming the EPA (for the first time) and asking for a volunteer national guard force (which they mandate be unarmed) to watch the border.
What should you do if you are approached by someone claiming to be a federal agent, asking about the whereabouts of your firearm? You could do what many good citizens would do, which would be to say "I have nothing to hide" and answer their questions, consent to their search, and cooperate. I urge you to instead ask for a warrant and if one is not produced then very politely tell them that you are not a criminal - you are a citizen, you take your second and fourth amendment rights very seriously and that your conversation is over. Then the shut the door and be prepared for some harassment. Have you local media on speed-dial to document any further illegal investigation from that agency.
Stand up for your rights, because they're not going to be here much longer.
Here's how it goes: Any number of federal agencies who have a pretend jurisdiction in an area visit gun stores to acquire records of what weapons were sold to what people. This is to evade the federal law prohibiting the government from preventing a database. The agency looks for "weapons known to be popular among drug traffickers" or "gang members" and then start knocking doors to find the citizen who legally purchased the firearm. When they find the citizen, the agency asks to see the weapon, why they purchased the weapon, and how they got the money to buy the weapon.
For example, in Texas some agents found in a dealer's records that a citizen in nearby town purchased two handguns in the same day (which is legal in Texas). They then hunted the man down and asked him many questions concerning the purchase and asked to see the handguns (note that it would not have been illegal for the man to have immediately sold them -without record- to another citizen...because this is America, after all). Also, when the Feds do this type of thing, as they did in this instance, they do not utilize a search warrant. Brandishing their government-issue side-arms and badge while in civilian clothing, the agents intimidate the citizen and insinuate that a crime had been committed with his gun. In the instance in Texas, the gun owner turned out to be a pastor who had purchased the pistols for target shooting.
Another instance given by the AP was that a woman had purchased four handguns in the same day (again, legal in Texas). The federal agents tracked down her home and saw that it was a lower-income home in disrepair. Assuming that she must have therefore purchased the guns for trafficking, they went knocking door-to-door to her neighbors to find out where she was, what they thought of her, and why she would have wanted a handgun.
Am I wrong, or is this America? Can this be happening?
This is being done in the name of illegal immigration, gun and drug trafficking. Mexican gangsters are coming to America, after all, to purchase their guns.
Let me get this right. Instead of enforcing immigration law and shutting off the flow of illegals into the U.S., our government would rather ignore immigration law and shut off the flow of guns to U.S. citizens. Unbelievable. How about instead of harassing citizens, put up a wall and strict border security. But the Obama administration is too busy arming the EPA (for the first time) and asking for a volunteer national guard force (which they mandate be unarmed) to watch the border.
What should you do if you are approached by someone claiming to be a federal agent, asking about the whereabouts of your firearm? You could do what many good citizens would do, which would be to say "I have nothing to hide" and answer their questions, consent to their search, and cooperate. I urge you to instead ask for a warrant and if one is not produced then very politely tell them that you are not a criminal - you are a citizen, you take your second and fourth amendment rights very seriously and that your conversation is over. Then the shut the door and be prepared for some harassment. Have you local media on speed-dial to document any further illegal investigation from that agency.
Stand up for your rights, because they're not going to be here much longer.
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