Will Congress Lay the Groundwork for Gun Confiscation?
http://gunowners.org/a03092011.htm
Wednesday, March 9, 14, 2011
Will Congress Lay the Groundwork for Gun Confiscation?
Within the next 90 days, Congress will vote on whether to reauthorize
legislation to specifically allow the government potential access to
millions of gun records (4473's).
Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which must be reauthorized soon, is of
particular concern.
This section allows the FBI to seize business records -- including the
4473 forms that gun buyers fill out. The only significant caveat is
that the FBI must claim that the seizure of records is needed pursuant
to "an authorized investigation."
But since a secret court is required to rubber-stamp the government's
request (unless it fails to make even a specious case), the FBI can
easily abuse its authority. The Inspector General found that, between
2003 and 2006, the FBI may have violated the law over 6,000 times with
respect to their authority under various provisions of the PATRIOT Act.
So just imagine that it's your gun records that have been seized. Under
such circumstances, the gun dealer is specifically prohibited, under
penalty of law, from telling you that the FBI has confiscated the
records of your firearms purchases. Under the PATRIOT Act, any
limitations on the use of the seized records shall be at the sole
discretion of the Department of Justice.
Talk about the fox guarding the hen house!
It is imperative that Congress protect gun owners from rogue government
agents who would abuse their authority to register gun owners.
We've already seen the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives attempt to register gun owners recently when they tried to
require certain gun dealers to report anyone who, within a five day
period, tried to purchase two or more semi-automatic rifles (that are
22 caliber or greater and can accept a detachable magazine).
Historically, gun registration has been a prelude to gun confiscation,
as documented by the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
almost 20 years ago. They showed how several foreign governments in the
Twentieth Century had used gun control -- and quite often gun
registration -- to confiscate firearms. In each case, such confiscation
was a prelude to genocide.
ACTION: Contact your two senators and insist that any language to
reauthorize Section 215 also contain language to protect 4473's from the
Obama administration's scrutiny. You can use the Gun Owners Legislative
Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your
legislators the pre-written e-mail message below.
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Amendments --- commonly known as the Bill of Rights --- are trampled
underfoot by politicos and bureaucrats is that the Founding Fathers
neglected to provide a suitably harsh penalty for it?" --- L. Neil Smith
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