EXPOSED: Biden Admin Is Creating An Illegal Database Of Gun Owners

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During his tenure, President Biden vowed that he wouldn’t stop drilling, force vaccine requirements, or support “open borders” and we all know how those promises panned out. Given his track record of failed promises, it’s hardly surprising that the Biden administration is skirting the Constitution once again with what may be his most egregious act: compiling a database of law-abiding gun owners.

We wouldn’t put anything past Biden, given how he has defiantly rejected more than one judicial ruling that has ruled against him. And we already know how much he despises most law-abiding gun owners, despite his pretense of supporting the Second Amendment (in theory).

The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon. When a licensed gun store goes out of business, its private records detailing gun transactions become ATF property and are stored at a federal site in West Virginia. This practice allows the federal government to stockpile scores of gun records and has drawn outrage from gun advocacy groups that say the government is using this information to create a national database of gun owners—which has long been prohibited under U.S. law.



The ATF obtained 53.8 million paper records and another 887,000 electronic records, according to the internal document that outlines ATF actions in fiscal year 2021. Gun activists described this figure as worryingly high and said it contributes to fears that the Biden administration is trying to keep track of all Americans who own firearms, in violation of federal statutes. The procurement of these records by the ATF comes as the Biden administration moves to alter current laws to ensure that gun records are stored in perpetuity. Currently, gun shops can destroy their records after 20 years, thereby preventing the ATF from accessing the information in the future.