Fellow Americans,
For years, we have been focusing on how the Federal government’s domestic surveillance programs were unconstitutional and a breach of privacy.
People in both laugh at us. They tell us that a little Big Brother action is no big deal if we have nothing to hide…
But what if you’re doing nothing wrong and the government is still spying on you? What if you are just trying to exercise your Second Amendment rights in peace?
What if the government was monitoring who was going to gun shows and keeping a database of gun owners?
Well, that’s exactly what the DEA has been doing!
Newly uncovered emails show that in 2009, the DEA announced that it was launching a program and working alongside the ATF to monitor gun shows for potential illegal gun sales. They said that they using license plate readers (LPRs) to create databases of everyone who was attending gun shows, regardless of whether they were breaking the law or not.
The ACLU – of all organizations – was the one to get its hands on this email. The rest of the documents are retracted but the truth is that this program existed. The fact that the government is keeping the details of it classified suggests that it might still be ongoing!
The DEA claims that the program was never authorized, but the emails recovered refer to the program as an ongoing exercise, not a proposal. Also, don’t forget that the Obama administration originally denied that Fast & Furious took place as well…
This is coming on the news that the DEA is expanding this very domestic spying program from the southern border to the entire United States.
That’s right. For years, the government has been using license plate readers along the border to track citizens’ movements. They claim that this is to combat drug smuggling, but that doesn’t change the fact that these license plate readers are tracking the movements of EVERY American driving down the road.
This tells the government where and when you travel. It gives them your daily schedule.
Neither the DEA, FBI, nor any other government agency has the right to just record our movements.
But it gets worse than that. The DEA emails that were recently uncovered proves that the Federal government was also going after gun owners who visit gun shows and maintaining a database.
The federal vehicles would take pictures of the license plates entering gun show parking lots and then that data would be added to a registry.
Why does the government want to know who is frequenting gun shows? Visiting a gun show isn’t illegal. If the government wants to put surveillance on a single suspect, they have to get a warrant from a judge.
So how can they possibly justify this type of blanket surveillance directed at gun owners?
I’ve attended gun shows and I have nothing to hide. But that isn’t the point. It’s not my job to prove to the government I am innocent. It is the government’s job to prove that it has the right to place surveillance on me.
Exercising your Second Amendment rights isn’t and shouldn’t be a crime. But as far as the DEA and the ATF are concerned, apparently it can be!
I want you to think for a second and ask yourself what the government could possibly use a gun show attendance database for.
For the life of me, I cannot come up with one single constitutional reason for this type of blanket data collection. Then again, the Obama administration has been trying for years to implement a gun registry. They tried it when they pushed for “universal” background checks.
But to learn that the Federal government was actually planning to take pictures of license plates in gun show parking lots is despicable.
I said it before and I will say it again: There is only one goal of gun registration and that is Government enforced confiscation.
That is the only reason that the government collected that data and it remains the only reason that the database is still maintained.
Even the liberal-leaning ACLU understands that targeting gun owners is a violation of their rights.
The government cannot be allowed to do this! It is unconstitutional and nothing but a brazen attack against American gun owners and sportsmen!
Sincerely,
Max McGuire
Conservative Daily
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