Gun Owners Aren’t Criminals: It’s Time To Dismantle NICS Monitoring
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Gun Owners Aren’t Criminals: It’s Time To Dismantle NICS Monitoring

The secret surveillance of lawful gun owners is a direct assault on the freedoms that define our nation.

Erich Pratt

In movies like Enemy of the State, Americans are shown a dystopian world where government surveillance turns ordinary citizens into targets, with shadowy agencies tracking their every move without oversight or accountability. Sadly, this Hollywood nightmare is now reality.

During the Biden administration, federal agencies like the FBI were secretly monitoring law-abiding gun owners through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) — tracking their lawful firearm purchases without a warrant and without ever informing those being monitored. Even Congress was kept in the dark. What once seemed like fiction is now a troubling truth, as the federal government turns its surveillance powers inward against its own people, eroding the freedoms it was meant to protect.

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