The ATF is Going Door to Door in Texas Looking for Guns

  Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell

  I have written before about how the government was going to use the drug violence in Mexico and at the United States border as an excuse to implement  strict gun control laws and while this hasn’t happened yet there is something else going on in Texas that is equally as unconstitutional and frightening.

  The ATF is actively going door to door in Texas and searching for weapons in people’s homes who have no criminal record, without just cause. Their only crime is that they have recently bought guns, and for reasons that only the ATF knows these purchases, although legal, are suspicious.

  And it goes beyond that. Because, according to federal law, they cannot compile a federal database on gun owners the ATF is walking into Texas gunshops and combing through their records, just for the hell of it, looking for anything they can use.

    If you are a law abiding gun owner who is simply unemployed that is reason enough for you to be a suspect.

People who are legally in the United States and have clean criminal records, but are facing economic problems are often recruited by traffickers to buy weapons on their behalf in order to shield themselves from scrutiny.

  But anybody seems to be under scrutiny by the ATF in Texas:

Another tip took agents on a 30-minute drive from the shack to a sprawling home with a pool in the back and an American flag out front.

It turned out two handguns, of a type drug gangsters prefer, were bought by a pastor for target practice

  This pastor’s only crime was buying the same type of handgun that gangsters like. For that he was hassled and interviewed by the ATF.

  The ATF appears to be out in full force, without probable cause and without justification, and most of all without a warrant, hassling people who are just exercising their second amendment rights and looking for any reason to arrest people.

  Is it any wonder that guns and ammunition have been flying off the shelves since Barack Obama became president? Second amendment advocates are afraid that President Obama is going to implement strict gun control laws and they are buying weapons and ammunition while they still can. People who aren’t real friendly to the second amendment claim that second amendment advocates are just being paranoid; that nothing in Obama’s record or actions so far give the impression that he will infringe on the second amendment. But when you read stories such as this one it appears that gun owners are correct about President Obama’s disdain for the second amendment.

  Instead of stopping the flow of illegal aliens into this country the ATF is hassling law abiding, gun owning, constitutionalist citizens. Something is very, very wrong here.