Outrage Erupted as Thomas Massie Exposed the FBI’s Nastiest Gun Control Secret
The FBI certainly isn’t happy that this ugly secret is being talked about.
But Thomas Massie was not going to let it go unnoticed.
And he revealed something very bad about the FBI’s gun control plan.
The FBI is responsible for the “National Instant Criminal Background Check System,” better known by the general public as “NICS.”
This system is used to deny many people gun ownership based on their criminal record, sometimes keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people, but other times denying people who made a mistake in the past but have been clean for years, and other times denying people who haven’t done anything wrong at all.
As one of the biggest Second Amendment supporters in Congress, Thomas Massie is not the biggest fan of NICS being used for gun control, and he revealed something very ugly about it.
It turns out that the biggest group of people in America who are denied legal gun ownership by the NICS system are racial minorities.
In other words, the FBI has systematically been denying minorities their freedoms under the Constitution while generally letting white people buy guns freely.
This is a very bad look for the FBI and deserves to be heavily scrutinized.
According to AmmoLand, “In 2022, at an impactful House Judiciary Committee hearing, Representative Thomas Massie rigorously challenged the sweeping gun control measures proposed by President Biden, specifically the push to ban all semi-automatic weapons—a classification that encompasses the majority of firearms owned today.”
Here is what Massie said: “This robust discourse highlights a vital conversation about not just the broad implications of such a ban but also the intricate issues surrounding the Federal background checks, as detailed by expert Dr. John Lott.”
Now AmmoLand is publicizing the full details of Lott’s study, which deals with racial discrepancies in the NICS system in regards to firearm ownership.
It is not going to make the FBI look very good, and the FBI certainly is not going to be happy that this is being talked about in the gun community.
The article continues, “Despite the claimed intended purpose of preventing prohibited individuals from acquiring firearms, the system exhibits a significant flaw—racial disparity in the denial rates of legal firearm purchases. His research indicates that an overwhelming majority of initial denials, approximately 99%, are errors, disproportionately affecting Hispanic and Black males due to phonetic similarities in names within racial groups.
“The errors in NICS background checks not only impede the right to self-defense but also impose a costly and complicated appeals process, often unaffordable to those affected.”
Any American being denied their constitutional freedoms due to a mistake is suffering a grave injustice that needs to be corrected.
However, there is no sign, at least publicly, that the FBI is doing anything about this, as their focus has been on imposing more gun control under the Joe Biden presidency.
Hopefully the new FBI director under Trump will take notice of this problem and take clear steps to fix it moving forward.
https://gunpowdermagazine.com/outrage-erupted-as-thomas-massie-exposed-the-fbis-nastiest-gun-control-secret/