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The FBI is getting clobbered by conservatives after a bombshell report broke on the Daily Caller this week.
From 2016 to 2019, the agency was running a hush-hush operation to take gun rights away from Americans with alleged mental issues.
The kicker, however, is how they were getting these people to sign away their Second Amendment rights.
Doesn’t Make Sense
During that time, the Daily Caller reported that at least 15 people had signed away their Second Amendment rights.
This was done under the guise that they were considered to be a danger to themselves or others or lacking “mental capacity adequately to contract or manage” their lives.
That is a very important phrase to remember.
Question being, if you do not have the “mental capacity” to manage your own life, how can you possibly have the mental capacity to understand what you are signing?
The operation was discovered via an FOIA request by firearm rights group Gun Owners of America (GOA).
Robert Olson, GOA’s outside counsel who specializes in firearms law, stated, “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 defended the program, which was discontinued in 2019, stating, “The NICS Indices Self-Submission form was created to provide an avenue for individuals to self-report to the NICS Section when individuals felt they were a danger to themselves or others.”
The agency did not say why the program was discontinued, but it is already coming under fire from conservative members of Congress.
John Harris, an attorney who heads the Tennessee Firearms Association, stated, “The form seeks to deceive and mislead not only the individual, but perhaps even a medical provider to believe that a mental health issue is adequate to render someone a prohibited person under the statutory language, when the form itself lacks any information or disclosures that make it even remotely an accurate representation of the law.”
Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, added, “You can’t waive constitutional rights.
“They’re natural rights.”
You can read the full report on the Daily Caller and decide for yourself.
In my opinion, however, this is yet another massive strike against the agency and James Comey.
Christopher Wray will also have some explaining since the program was in place for the first two years of his time leading the agency.
