Gun Control Bill Encourages Financial Institutions To Report “Suspicious” Firearms Transactions
BY Herschel Smith
5 years ago
From a reader, news from the viper’s pit.
A new gun control bill calls for banks and credit card companies to track and provide transaction data to the feds on some firearm purchases as a way of tracking people who the government suspects might be planning mass shootings.
Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s (D–Va.) “Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act” would require the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to “request information from financial institutions for the purpose of developing an advisory about the identification and reporting of suspicious activity.” The bill’s aim is to identify a consistent purchasing pattern among people who buy firearms and firearm accessories in order to conduct “lone wolf acts of terror” and expose how the firearms market in the United States is exploited by would-be mass shooters.
“Banks, credit card companies, and retailers have unique insight into the behavior and purchasing patterns that can help identify and prevent mass shootings,” Wexton explained in a statement. “The red flags are there—someone just needs to be paying attention.”
George Orwell’s future is here. Make a perfectly legal, sensible purchase, get a visit by the FedGov. This is exactly what they intend. Folding peaceable men into the dragnet doesn’t worry them, and isn’t a bug. It’s a feature of the system.
Of course, you can always save cash, or withdraw cash from your checking account. But you do feel the net getting tighter, yes?
Make your plans for purchases now. Trump may be hungry enough for the soccer mom vote that he’ll sign anything, including this Orwellian abomination.
On November 20, 2019 at 10:42 pm, Torcer said:
This is why we need to call all of this by it’s proper name: Liberty control
Because this is an issue of freedom, not inanimate objects.
Leftists will gladly admit that they abhor scary objects that make loud noises.
They won’t admit that they abhor liberty, but that is what they are doing.