from ZeroHedge:
Submitted by Gun Owners of America,
Gun Owners of America just caught the FBI coercing more people into giving up their Second Amendment rights!
Thanks to a FOIA request by GOA’s lawyers, we uncovered even more evidence on the FBI’s unconstitutional and unlawful NICS Indices program.
In 2019, it was discovered that the FBI was using a document titled “NICS Indices Self-Submission Form” that purported to allow American citizens to “voluntarily” waive their Second Amendment rights.
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By completing this FBI form, law-abiding Americans allegedly “consent” for the FBI to enter their names into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, marking them as permanently prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms or ammunition. And as the form warns, once an individual waives their rights, it’s impossible to get them back.
Now, the mere existence of this form was troubling, and it clearly violates the Second Amendment and even the Gun Control Act. But at that point, we weren’t sure how extensively the FBI was using the form, if in fact it was being used at all.
Fast-forward a few years to 2022.
GOA published our initial findings that the FBI had provided these forms to agents for use on American gun owners, who were pressured into signing and therefore “voluntarily” relinquished their rights to purchase, possess, and use firearms.
These FOIA records painted a vivid picture of FBI agents showing up to people’s homes, place of work, etc., presenting to them these forms, and “asking” them to declare themselves to be a “danger” to themselves or others, or lacking the “mental capacity to adequately contract or manage” their lives.
You can imagine how coercive these sorts of FBI visits must have been. The FBI’s use of this secret form has occurred during recent years when the bureau has become increasingly politicized and weaponized against Americans, including gun owners.
Here’s what our attorney, Rob Olson, had to say at the time:
“We’re into a pre-crime, Minority Report type of world where the FBI believes it can take constitutional rights away from anyone it thinks possibly might pose a threat in the future, which certainly is not something you expect in the United States.”
The FBI claimed to have stopped use of this form in 2019 – right after GOA first reported the form’s existence.
After our findings went public in 2022, we called on Congress to investigate the FBI’s use of this unlawful form.
Well, thanks to our reporting, Congress did start to look into the matter.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, along with 15 other members of Congress, sent a letter to the FBI demanding that it remove any records from any database relating to those who have signed these forms, remove the records from NICS, and finally confirm that the FBI has halted its use of this unlawful form.
We have continued to press the FBI on this issue, and our continued work has uncovered more documents showing just how deep this FBI rabbit hole goes.
