Republican Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) has exposed the Biden administration’s unconstitutional efforts to harass American gun owners as their all out assault on the Second Amendment continues.
Ernst wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) investigation of potential straw purchases, or when one person buys a gun on behalf of someone else.
Ernst raised deep concerns over a fury of recent reports and videos depicting the ATF harassing or even intimidating gun purchasers.
The reports have suggested that ATF agents are actively engaged in “knock and talk” investigations, which they are using to try and trick American citizens into divulging information which the agency otherwise would have no right to know.
In the letter to Garland, Ernst wrote, “In all of the ‘knock and talk’ incidents brought to my attention, none involved the presentation of a warrant. Simultaneously, multiple ATF agents, dressed in official ATF gear—including bulletproof vests—did not inform the resident purchaser of the optional nature of his or her participation in brandishing the requested firearm. The combination of these factors calls into question whether the ATF’s actions are meant to harass or coerce firearm purchasers into, at best, legally questionable ‘investigations.’”
Ernst further demanded to know the criteria ATF uses to establish probable cause before the “knock and talks,” if the ATF obtains warrants for these visits, the number of visits conducted with a warrant, and if a warrant is not used, then what legal basis they have to ensure citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights are protected.
In one particular example of the ATF’s overreach, an inspector from the agency was caught on video taking pictures of Black Metal Firearms’ company documents which contained gun buyer’s personal info.
Black Metal Firearms owner David Nagel said that the ATF Inspector Pamela Scott began conducting a routine review, but things quickly went sideways when she started taking photos of the shop’s detailed sales records — including the identities of every gun buyer.
Nagel said he confronted Scott and even asked if she was “creating a registry,” by collecting the personal information of his customers.
“No, that would be illegal,” she quickly responded.
Nagel added that when he told Scott that his customers would not be comfortable with her collecting their information she said, “well, it sounds like your customers are just being paranoid. Maybe I should look into them a little bit more.”
Nagel even said that the ATF agents slammed a couple of his customers as “gun nuts,” suggesting she had taken issue with the number of guns these Americans were legally purchasing.
This sort of disdain for the average American is just an example of what we’re up against as the Biden administration continues to green light federal agencies to trample on our rights.
The Biden Administration is a Curse upon the United States!
Take way our guns so we have no defense when the Biden Crime Family let his China buddies in! That way we can not
protect ourselves! Ad people elected this Nazi commie! Where are your brains people – but you don’t care – you are just like Biden you hate American – my suggestion to you is go live across the pond and don’t ever come back! Try Russia Hungary, Iran, Iraq any of those will be real good for you – you will enjoy their dictators!
THE BIDEN GESTOPO GANG IS A BUNCH OF SICK, PERVERTED TRAITORS. THEY ALL BELONG IN JAIL, BUT I WOULD RATHER FEED THEM TO THE SHARKS, ALONG WITH BIDENS GESTOPO DOJ, ATF, HELL HIS WHOLE ADMINISTRTION. LETS GO BRAQNDON
I’m with you Tim the only thing I would do differently would be use a rope and a tree
We knew it was only a matter of time before the socialist left would come around to try and take our arms…disarming the citizens to prevent resistance is in the playbook of socialism. If that happens, they win. DO NOT COMPLY, We can still take back our country. We have to.
DITTO the above domments
The doj, fbi, atf, CIA, etc are all run by ivyleague communists!!! They will be rounded up and tried for treason, along with thier communist professors.
ONE way to stop this : get rid of the shit in the W. H. the trouble very fed Republicans have balls to do anything…;LOOKS LIKE GEORGE IS PAYING EVERYONE OFF,OR JUST A COWARD TO DO THEIR jobs PEOPLE VOTED IN OFFICE FOR… AMERICA need real strong republicans to get rid of LIBERALS IN CONGRESS . Some Republicans are
not doing anything to stop democrats. Biden is nothing but a puppet of OBAMA ,as he should be kicked out of the W.H. as anti AMERICAN TREASON IMPEACH PUT PRISON . IF WE do not get rid of the ruling democrats AMERICA WILL GO DOWN , we are there now and if we loose the 2nd, BIDEN will have CHINA RULE AMERICA as their bid coin will be
our GOV. control of AMERICANS WITH OUT MONEY, looks like we need a AMERICA take over again OR WE loose our AMERICA .
Joni is worthless. She voted for this. Red flag laws are fine according to her. I made the mistake voting for this rino, I won’t again.
John Cornyn of Tx has put himself deeply into the rino hole by supporting, work on it, then vo th ing for the red flag laws….
At one time he was a public supporter of the 2nd. Now he has shown different colors and NO LONGER SHOULD REPRESENT TEXAS AS HE IS A TRAITOR TO OUR STANDARDS AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!!!!