Warrantless surveillance by FBI and ATF using NICS Exploit Exposed in GOA FOIA request
"The secret system works by agents emailing the FBI a completed document called ATF Investigations Information Form for Monitoring Firearms Purchasers in the NICS." The agents are instructed that they may request monitoring gun purchases of people who are under criminal investigation for violations or potential violations of law."
That means they are monitoring people who buy guns but have not broken the law. The people put in the NICS Monitoring Services" are never notified and seemingly have no way to appeal being watched without a warrant."
If they had probable cause, they could seek a warrant from a judge, but they aren't doing that," explained Olson. They are just deciding they have some reason to believe a certain person's exercise of Second Amendment rights needs to be monitored. And it's their own system so they make up their own standards. There doesn't appear to be any oversight here."
"one of the newly released documents from the GOA's FOIA that is buried in the hundreds of pages turned over by the ATF shows that there is no limit to how long the FBI will monitor a person's gun purchases.
I will monitor your suspect for 180 days, at the end of 180 days I will contact you and ask if you would like to continue for another hundred days and keep repeating this process until such time as you wish the investigation stop," an FBI official emailed an ATF agent."
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