The following report is from The Paradise:
When the Washington Free Beacon obtained documents last November revealing that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) had more than 54 million records of Americans who purchased firearms from local gun dealers, Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and 51 other members of Congress demanded answers. In November he expressed his “concern”:
We are concerned that this Administration is leveraging its power in a way to establish a federal gun registry….
Congress has made it clear … that the federal government shall not create a federal gun registry and has prohibited ATF from creating any centralized databases.
He demanded answers to a number of questions, including just how many records ATF had, how many of them have been digitized using OCR or Optical Character Recognition technology, and specifically “how its Out-of-Business Records Center policy [of capturing all records from gun dealers who go out of business] does not violate the statutory restriction on a federal gun or gun owner registry?”
Cloud’s letter was signed by House members Thomas Massie, Pete Sessions, Ronny L. Jackson, Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Burgess Owens, Louie Gohmert, and others.
Letter Response Rep. Michael Cloud R TX 51 X GOP Co Signers Federal Gun Registry Signed Letter
Those members were stunned when Daniel Board, ATF’s assistant director, responded:
In total, ATF manages 920,664,765 OBR [Out of Business Records], as of November 2021 … 865,787,086 of those records are in digitized format.
Board then tried to explain that the ATF’s purposes in keeping such an immense database were benign:
The OBR [database does] not capture and store certain key information, such as firearms purchaser information in an automated file….
The ATF National Tracing Center … only traces crime guns … ATF is confident that it does not violate any laws.
Cloud didn’t buy it, telling the Free Beacon:
A federal firearm registry is explicitly banned by law. Yet, the Biden administration is again circumventing Congress and enabling the notably corrupt ATF to manage a database of nearly a billion gun transfer records.
Under the president’s watch, the ATF has increased surveillance of American gun owners at an abhorrent level. The Biden administration continues to empower criminals and foreign nationals while threatening the rights of law-abiding Americans.
John Crump, writing for Ammoland Inc., caught the lie about the OBR database only capturing “certain” limited information in its files, excluding purchaser information:
Although the ATF claims not to have the ability to search for specific character strings [such as purchaser names and related information], the fact they are using OCR means that it would only take mere minutes to enable [its] ability to search the documents.
The information-technology company Teris explains just how easy it is to turn paper documents into digital form that then can be searched using keywords such as “purchaser”:
OCR is the process of converting images and flat non-searchable documents into searchable text documents … so you can search for keywords….
OCR has a range of benefits, including:
Converting non-searchable documents into searchable text documents,
Quickly find relevant information: keywords, dates, phrases, and more, and
Convert paper files into a searchable digital repository.
So, the ATF already has nearly a billion searchable files on American gun owners, including name, address, phone number, and other information the agency requires on its Form 4473 a purchaser must complete before a gun may be purchased from a gun dealer.
This is the agency that Cloud describes as “notably corrupt” and about which Lee Williams, a researcher for The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project, notes:
There has never been a federal agency with so little regard for the sanctity of human life, with such a history of failure, with such antiquated duties and responsibilities, with such a propensity to overreact, with such an addiction to good press, with such a willingness to bend over for any politician in charge, and — as we currently see playing out — with such little regard for the constitutional rights of American citizens.
Readers seeking more information about ATF’s failures and atrocities in Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Branch Davidians, and Operation Fast and Furious, Crump’s review is available here.
The gun registry that gun owners have feared for years as the next step towards gun confiscation is now in place. Disarming the public is the final step in turning the American Republic into a dictatorship.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Truthfully I am not really shocked about this: I could of just assumed there already was one. I mean, if there are unconstitutional background checks already in place, then, to me, it was not much of a stretch for me to assume the government keeps tabs on that, by mandating that all licensed gun shops turn over their proof of sales.
The democrats are always blamed for gun control, and yet it is the National Rifle Association (NRA) that lobbied the government to bring it in: and they BRAG about it, and manipulate the fickle Republicans and “patriots” into cheering for it!
Regardless, as an American, I will most definitely NOT be giving up my guns when the eventual gun-grab commences.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
Benjamin Franklin
Howbeit, moving forward, guns will not be an option. I highly suggest looking into alternative weaponry. Swords, bows, spears, blow darts, slingshots, snares, etc.
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Luke 22:36
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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For every firearm I have ever bought I had to fill out the 4473, then the store employee places my personal information into the computer along with the information about said firearm and then the federal government gives their yay or nay. It is digitized right there. There is now way they don’t capture that information and keep it for their records.
Jacob, I’m not saying this in pride, nor at all:
I have Indiana heritage myself, but I live in Texas. I say to you “come to Texas” Texas is gun paradise. Also Jacob: I need you. You and Bryan are my heroes and you cannot fathom how much I need you or Bryan.
Indiana is one of, if not the loosest state when it comes to guns, ironically. Getting one is super easy. So is Texas, but there are some things on the books us Hoosiers have more rights to. To my understand, our laws are the closest aligned with the Bill of Rights.