This Valentine's Day, ATF Wants You To Snitch on Your Ex
Adversarial government is loving government.
This current regime loves going full Stalin. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, is seeking help to discover who has illegal firearms; so they are imploring former lovers of the gun-owning population to narc on their exes.
You cannot make this stuff up.
Not only is this in poor taste, it’s downright Orwellian. Right on brand for the Biden administration.
Someone actually thought this was a good idea and someone actually greenlit this. I took a screenshot in the event ATF memory holes it.
But ATF seems quite proud of this effort. They have plastered this post all over social media: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.
What could go wrong?
Plenty, and from the comments on all the posts I checked, ATF is getting ratioed, and rightly so.
Ruby Ridge.
Waco.
Fast and Furious.
I could go on. This agency is known not only for its heavy-handedness, but its violent, knee-jerk reactions to “tips.”
From Ammo.com:
It’s unlikely that there is a single federal alphabet organization less popular among the readership of this website than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. These are the people who gave us both the Siege at Ruby Ridge and the Siege of Waco. What’s more, they may well be engaged in an entirely unconstitutional exercise: monitoring and patrolling the gun ownership of law-abiding citizens.
This is not conspiracy theory. According to Bearing Arms, ATF has cavalierly admitted it is collecting records on legal gun owners, as if this is perfectly legal; just another day ending in “Y.”
The federal government is prevented by law from establishing or maintaining a database of gun owners, but that’s not stopping the Biden administration from collecting and digitizing millions of firearms transactions conducted by FFLs across the country.
According to a new story by the Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo, the ATF has informed Congress that it is currently maintaining a database of 920,664,765 firearm purchase records, including 54-million that were gathered just last year. That nugget about last year’s input was originally leaked to Gun Owners of America, according to 2A activist and writer John Crump, who adds that gun rights activists are especially concerned because of a recent push by the ATF to have FFL’s store their finished 4473 forms digitally.
What they are trying to do behind your back is ultimately more dangerous and invasive than what they are doing in front of your face. Watch out for those bright, shiny objects (crack pipes, Ukraine), because you know they are looking to distract you from something else they are trying to do and that they don’t want you to know about.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, so letting them know, we see you, is important.
I love this reply from Nice Deb:
And this very perceptive commenter laid out some facts:
Isn’t that something?
Growing another pair of eyes to keep watch on this. Seems to be a necessary trick these days, and helps one avoid whiplash.