The federal government has been spying on millions of private gun sales and spying on American citizens without a constitutionally-mandated warrant as part of a nationwide gun control scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reports committee chairman Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sent a letter to Acting ATF Director Daniel Driscoll, \u201crequesting information on a secretive program that appears to allow the federal government to monitor law-abiding Americans attempting to exercise their Second Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis kind of backdoor surveillance of American citizens\u2014without due process or public disclosure\u2014should alarm every single person who values the Bill of Rights,\u201d said Paul. \u201cThe ATF and FBI have no business creating secret watchlists for law-abiding Americans seeking to purchase firearms. It\u2019s unacceptable, and I intend to get answers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAn activist judge subjected GOA to a \u2018gag order\u2019 after the Biden Administration mistakenly gave us information related to its unlawful NICS Monitoring program. ATF and FBI have no business monitoring the gun purchases of American citizens. GOA has since learned that the FBI abused NICS Monitoring to enforce California\u2019s \u2018assault weapons\u2019 ban. We are thankful to Chairman Paul and the Senate Homeland Security Committee for opening an investigation into this egregious violation of Second and Fourth Amendment rights,\u201d said Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs, Gun Owners of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The committee reports Paul\u2019s letter \u201cfollows reporting based on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Gun Owners of America, which revealed the existence of the NICS Audit Log Review (Monitoring) system. The Biden Administration\u2019s ATF mistakenly released unredacted documents exposing the system, and has reportedly spent years trying to cover it up ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAccording to the exposed documents, the program enables ATF agents to request that the FBI flag and monitor specific individuals using data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), often for extended periods of time\u2014without those individuals ever knowing,\u201d the committee reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The committee reprots Paul \u201cdemands that the ATF provide unredacted records showing how many Americans have been subjected to this monitoring, for what reasons, the legal basis for the program, whether it has led to prosecutions, and whether there has been any misuse by ATF personnel or contractors. The records must be submitted to the committee no later than 5:00 pm on April 24th, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Paul highlights in his letter that \u201cthe existence of this surveillance program, and the ATF\u2019s longstanding push to conceal it from the public, raise questions about its general use and its potential to infringe on Americans\u2019 civil liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of\u00a0Great America News Desk.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The federal government has been spying on millions of private gun sales and spying on American citizens without a constitutionally-mandated warrant as part of a nationwide gun control scheme. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reports committee chairman Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sent a letter to Acting ATF Director Daniel Driscoll, \u201crequesting information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[137,39,1252,181,801],"class_list":["post-9421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-biden-administration","tag-fbi","tag-gun-control","tag-opinion","tag-rand-paul"],"yoast_head":"\n