State Attorneys General Say FedEx and UPS Help Feds Track Gun Sales. New shipping policies seen as attempt to 'bypass warrant requirements' and create gun registry
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 3 months ago to Government
Excerpt:
"Based on reports from gun stores, Knudsen’s letter states, FedEx and UPS are now requiring Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) to provide details of each shipment to the shipping companies, including the contents and recipient, allowing them “to create a database of American gun purchasers and determine exactly what items they purchased.
Citing the new policies, the letter states: “Perhaps most concerning, your policies allegedly allow FedEx [and UPS] to ‘comply with … requests from applicable law enforcement or other governmental authorities’ even when those requests are ‘inconsistent or contrary to any applicable law, rule, regulation, or order.’ In doing so you—perhaps inadvertently—give federal agencies a workaround to federal law, which has long prevented federal agencies from using gun sales to create gun registries.”
“The ATF is hoping they’re not going to have a warrant problem,” Knudsen said. “They could just go get this information from UPS and FedEx.”"
"Based on reports from gun stores, Knudsen’s letter states, FedEx and UPS are now requiring Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) to provide details of each shipment to the shipping companies, including the contents and recipient, allowing them “to create a database of American gun purchasers and determine exactly what items they purchased.
Citing the new policies, the letter states: “Perhaps most concerning, your policies allegedly allow FedEx [and UPS] to ‘comply with … requests from applicable law enforcement or other governmental authorities’ even when those requests are ‘inconsistent or contrary to any applicable law, rule, regulation, or order.’ In doing so you—perhaps inadvertently—give federal agencies a workaround to federal law, which has long prevented federal agencies from using gun sales to create gun registries.”
“The ATF is hoping they’re not going to have a warrant problem,” Knudsen said. “They could just go get this information from UPS and FedEx.”"
Maybe we should have FedX and UPS do our election vote counting because they can tell me where my new gun is every step of the way.
(Except they'd probably be corrupt within a few years.)
My buddy caught his young son, around 11, in a small fib and was lecturing the boy on the virtues of being truthful. The kid said, "Why is such a little lie such a big deal? Politicians lie all the time and they don't get punished!"
1) that they were elected fairly, and
2) we had some input into who are the candidates.
imo, neither are true.
you cannot have a gun shipped to your home in most cases
it has to go to a FFL for you to have the background check done
same with gun shows, any FFL holder MUST do a background check
there are a few exceptions, curio and relic firearms if you have the license can be shipped to your home, no background check
but these are older guns, likely not AR types (C&R ARs are rare)
they can track ammo, parts
but guns themselves?? they go to FFLs
"FedEx and UPS are now requiring Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) to provide details of each shipment to the shipping companies, including the contents and recipient,"
This plus the FedEx deal sounds like they are making sneaky moves. The tentacles are wiggling in to corner the firearm owners.
stores order guns to sell
i think in the 10+ years i've owned some, i've ordered 2 special
another reason to buy used ones at the store...
(most of mine are used)