Authored by Aidan Johnston, Federal Affairs Director for Gun Owners of America,
A group of 27 members of Congress, led by Representative Michael Cloud of Texas are sounding the alarm on the expansion of ATF’s illegal registry of guns and gun owners.
According to a recently released letter, addressed to ATF Deputy Director Robert Cedaka, ATF has not responded to a previous inquiry regarding the expansion of the registry.These Congressmen are concerned that ATF may now haveover a billion recordsin their registry.
Thank you to all who signed onto this letter to hold ATF accountable!pic.twitter.com/BMOG2k86mP
Originally, in 2021, Gun Owners of America revealed that the ATF was “processing” over54.7 million“out-of-business records” per year.
Following this revelation, a Congressional investigation was started. This investigation uncovered the shocking reality that ATF had over920 million gunregistration records in a centralized, searchable, digital database- in total violation of federal law.
In 1986, Congress passed the Firearm Owners Protection Act, or FOPA. A portion of this act bans the federal government from ever keeping a searchable database of gun owners.
The exact text of the law reads like this:
No such rule or regulationprescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Actmay require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established.
Every tyrannical government on earth has first disarmed its population before committing terrible atrocities upon them.
Source: ZeroHedge News
