FBI pushing Americans to sign away their Second Amendment rights

The Washington Examiner reports, “The Secret Service and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement secretly coordinated with the FBI to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, use, or even buy firearms, according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Behind closed doors and without congressional approval, the FBI has stripped gun rights from at least 23 people with internal forms, the Washington Examiner reported. However, Secret Service and ICE , two agencies under the Department of Homeland Security, have also quietly used these same forms, emails show.

'Deep State mentality': Secret Service, ICE secretly coordinated with FBI to strip gun rights, emails show

"It's just really, really concerning."https://t.co/x9eYYTJWTM — Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 13, 2022

The emails were first obtained by the firearms rights group Gun Owners of America amid its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI and shared with the Washington Examiner. They demonstrate a more widespread effort than was previously known by the federal government to use the forms, which the Daily Caller revealed in September had been presented between 2016 and 2019 by FBI agents to people at their homes in Maine, Michigan, and Massachusetts, as well as in other undisclosed locations.

Signatories were registered with the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System and asked to declare that they were a 'danger' to themselves or other people or lacking the 'mental capacity adequately to contract' their lives. Many of the people targeted by the FBI in the past had reportedly made violent threats on social media, in chat rooms, and in person, internal records show.”

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How can the FBI do this? Good question.

They can't, constitutionally.

BASEDPolitics' Tom Knighton writes, "The question now becomes how many people in total were pressured to sign these forms in the first place.

Well, that’s one of the questions. Perhaps a more important question regards the legality of these forms in the first place.

Within US law, there are a handful of ways someone can be stripped of their Second Amendment rights and only one that involves something other than a criminal conviction. In that case, someone can be adjudicated by a court as “mentally defective,” an archaic term for someone not competent enough to be trusted with gun rights.

The implication with these individuals seems to be that the FBI doesn’t think they can be trusted. Yet as one lawmaker noted, that’s not something they can lawfully do.

There's no legal mechanism in place for the FBI to do this, and yet, they've still done it.

And don't tell me this was voluntary, because there's no way intimidation wasn't in play.https://t.co/AGOTJzX7oo — Tom Knighton (@TheTomKnighton) December 12, 2022

'Americans can’t simply sign their constitutional rights away, even to the FBI,' Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas told the Examiner. He also promised that the incoming Republican House majority would investigate this.

However, Cloud is absolutely correct. Americans can’t sign their rights away. They’re free to not exercise them, but they remain should they change their mind.

Further, there’s a strong implication that the FBI doesn’t just ask folks politely."

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