By: Anthony Morelli
The ATF may soon put gun owners in serious danger.
They are on the verge of releasing their full database.
And anti-gunners are licking their chops waiting to get this information in their hands.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been keeping records on American gun owners.
They are tracking who buys a firearm from whom, and they are intending to use that information in a way that is extremely harmful to the Second Amendment.
Now, it appears that the full database might get into the hands of anti-gun politicians who are trying to actively crack down on gun owners.
The city of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit in court, seeking to obtain access to the list of firearm sales.
They are looking to crack down on guns and gun owners in their city using this information, as they are blaming law-abiding gun owners for the spike in homicides.
For anyone who lives in Baltimore and owns a gun for self-defense purposes, which is increasingly necessary to live in that city due to the increase in crime, this is very concerning news.
According to the Washington Examiner, “Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits local officials from accessing ATF firearms trace databases, according to a CNN report.
“Scott and the Baltimore City Council argue they cannot curb firearms resulting in gun violence from entering the city if they cannot figure out where they came from.”
“The Tiahrt Amendment was enacted in 2003 as a way for law enforcement and prosecutors to get gun tracing data, but they aren’t allowed to share that data. The lawsuit said the ATF has adopted too narrow of an interpretation of the Tiahrt Amendment and claims the agency cannot prevent officials from seeing gun history under the 2009 OPEN FOIA Act.”
This isn’t only concerning for Baltimore gun owners – the implications of this lawsuit are much bigger and broader than just that one city.
If the ATF starts handing out information on gun owners like candy, anti-gun politicians everywhere will use that data to crack down.
The article continues, “Democrats in Congress also agree with Baltimore’s sentiment. Last fall, 60 congressional Democrats wrote to President Joe Biden asking the Department of Justice to review the bureau’s interpretation of the act.”
This is clearly a coordinated attack on the Second Amendment by Democrats nationwide, and they are seeking to back gun owners into a corner.
Of course, the whole premise of this is complete nonsense. Law-abiding gun owners are not the cause of Baltimore’s crime.
As the article goes on to report, “Despite Baltimore having zero firearm stores within city limits, 84% of homicides since 2007 were from firearm deaths.”
In other words, these crimes are being committed by street criminals and gangs. People are not going to gun stores in Baltimore and then going out and committing crime.
Perhaps if these politicians and their friends at the ATF knew that, they’d stop blaming gun owners for all of society’s woes.