Barr creates "Project Gestapo" ATF/FBI gun-control program

[Matt Collins]

https://nationalgunrights.org/resources/news/attorney-general-barr-announces-project-gestapo-gun-control-initiative/

[Origanalist]

https://nationalgunrights.org/resources/news/attorney-general-barr-announces-project-gestapo-gun-control-initiative/

He's just playing 3D chess. He's going over the line so the pendulum will swing back more to the side of freedom.

[Anti Federalist]

Attorney General Barr Announces “Project Gestapo” Gun Control Initiative

https://nationalgunrights.org/resources/news/attorney-general-barr-announces-project-gestapo-gun-control-initiative/

November 14, 2019


By Tyler Witzke
Political Projects Manager
National Association for Gun Rights

Amidst the recent impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr announced his new federal gun control plan called “Project Guardian” yesterday.

Barr’s so-called “Project Guardian” is designed to piggy-back off of earlier attempts to disarm law-abiding citizens via the Department of Justice and their federal agencies such as the ATF – an agency which has a poor track record of honoring the Second Amendment and protecting gun owners.

Seeing the potential for federal overreach – many gun owners are calling this program “Project Gestapo” instead, a reference to failed government gun control blunders like Project Exile and Project Safe Streets of the past.

These “crime reduction” strategies were launched in 1997 in Virginia, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, as a result of the spike in violent crime rates in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Essentially functioning as a sentence enhancement program, it targeted felons who were caught carrying firearms and prosecuted them in federal courts, instead of in state courts, where they received harsher sentences, no option of bail, and no potential for early release.

Through increasing the expected penalty for firearm-related offenses, Project Gestapo sought to deter both firearm carrying and criminal use.

However, if you wanted to travel out of state to transfer a handgun to a family member without doing a background check, you could spend up to 5 years in federal prison under these gun control schemes.

The DOJ’s recent press release even claims that, “Project Guardian will build upon Triggerlock's and [Project Gestapo]'s focus on coordination with all law enforcement partners to maximize the impact of federal prosecution resources.”1

And Barr’s new pet-project will grant more money to the ATF in order to “crack down” on denials for background checks.

Even well-published researcher Dr. John Lott, Jr. has stated that gun owners have wrongly been denied buying a firearm 96% of the time a false-positive is issued through NICS.2

Not to mention, the Department of Justice will work and pour more money into the ATF’s Crime Gun Intelligence Centers to maximize the use of technology that can and will be used against law-abiding gun owners.

All while Congress just voted to add $53 million to the ATF’s budget to further their bureaucratic agenda.

Yet, the ATF and the Department of Justice claim once again this will “curb gun violence” and “protect our neighborhoods” by getting guns off the streets.

But in order to do this, the DOJ and ATF want to coordinate prosecution at the local level, inviting local police to answer to the demands of the ATF.

They also want to further enforce the failed Brady-NICS system, share information to local law enforcement, adding gun owners to massive government databases, and to enforce Firearm Tracing to track every single firearm with a serial number, and sharing that information with local police.

The National Association for Gun Rights will always oppose Project Gestapo and any expansion of the failed gun control scheme.

Please consider making your most generous contribution to fighting back against bureaucratic gun grabs today.

References:

1 – Barr, William. Project Guardian. Justice.gov. Nov 8, 2019.

2 = Lott, Jr., John R. What type of gun control will actually make us safer? Senate.gov. Sept 18, 2019.

[Anti Globalist]

Trump needs to come out against this immediately. Otherwise people will start coming to the conclusion that he supports this.

[PAF]

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New Attorney General Nominee William Barr’s Record on Guns Revealed

Dec 08, 2018

President Trump said yesterday that he intends to nominate William Barr as Sessions’ replacement. The choice has been greeted by applause from both Democrats and Republicans. Barr is a Bush 41 retread, having served as Assistant Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and finally as Attorney General. BATFE was under the Department of Treasury during Bush 41’s term and the Department of Justice had only limited authority over firearms.

Barr has said little about firearms or gun control during his career, but he is widely considered to be the author of PL 101-647, The Crime Control Act of 1990.

The Crime Control Act of 1990 had a number of firearms provisions. The Gun Free School Zone Act is the biggie, but probably the work of Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin – not Barr. The GFSZA’s strange rules set the context for MGO v. AAPS, despite SCOTUS finding much of it unconstitutional in Lopez.

The ban on domestic assembly of semiautomatic rifles prohibited from importation is Barr’s big aggravation in The Crime Control Act of 1990. This was a follow on to Bush 41’s 1989 prohibition of ‘unsporting’ long arms importation. Other provisions:

– Increased prison sentences for SBRs, SBSs, and destructive devices to 10 years.
– Barred firearms transfers to non-residents of the USA
– Banned firearms in federal court facilities
– Cleaned up bad grammar in previous gun control statutes.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/new-attorney-general-nominee-william-barrs-record-on-guns-revealed/
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