Anonymous Anti-Gun Activist Wants to Dox Washington Gun Owners

[Swordsmyth]

An individual recently filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to acquire the names and addresses of gun owners who have turned in their bump stocks to the police.
John Crump of AmmoLand reports that this individual made such a request “to create a publicly searchable database of these former owners.”
AmmoLand confirmed that the Washington State Patrol mailed out a letter that informed former bump stock owners that they received a FOIA request to build an online database. According to Crump, “The letter set the gun world on fire.”
This request is reminiscent to when a newspaper in New York state planned on posting a map of gun owners in order to humiliate them for owning firearms. Crump asserted that the publication of this information at the time would have acted “as a map to locations where criminals could likely find guns to steal, putting owners a greater risk.”

AmmoLand reached out to Gun Owners of America about the letter. Executive Director Erich Pratt was angry at this news and told AmmoLand that “Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation is looking into this matter.”
Pratt understands the implications of this move:
“This is an outrageous violation of privacy to dox individuals who complied with this law. This opens up these individuals to theft and harassment from anti-gun activists.”
AmmoLand has vowed to continue investigating into this manner.
Indeed, Washington was one of the states most affected by the 2018 gun control wave after the Parkland shooting.
Anti-gun forces have largely been shut out of power at the federal level, so they are now turning towards state legislatures or extralegal means to harass gun owners.
As more information becomes digital, gun owners face very real privacy threats from anti-gun activists and hackers.


More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/anonym...on-gun-owners/

[Danke]

Why would one turn in anything to the government like this? Just dispose of it privately if u don't want to keep it.

[Swordsmyth]

Why would one turn in anything to the government like this? Just dispose of it privately if u don't want to keep it.

A fool and his bumpstock are soon parted.

[AngryCanadian]

I wonder how would that Anonymous Anti-Gun Activist feel if he got doxed by others?
Yeah that';s not a good idea.

[Anti Federalist]

So, after the doxxing, when the Bolsheviks and Jacobins show up at your door, threatening to burn down your home, shoot them in the face.

Then they'll get the message.

Carefully hordered and husbanded weapons are no weapons at all.