Congress Lays Down a Marker

At Ammoland the National Shooting Sports Foundation has an opinion piece entitled Gun Lobby Welcomes Sen. Hagarty's Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act Introduction. Needless to say, by sorting through the private sales records of individuals to find out who bought guns and ammo, the government has committed a gross violation of the 4th Amendment that everyone involved should have recognized. And I believe they did. They just ignored it for ideological reasons.

The Firearm Industry Trade Association, hails the introduction of S. 4075, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, by U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), which would ban the use of a firearm retailer-specific Merchant Category Code (MCC). The legislation would protect the Second Amendment privacy of firearm and ammunition purchasers from financial service and payment card providers compiling purchase history that has already proven to be exploited by the federal government for political purposes.

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“The Biden administration has already admitted that it unlawfully used the private firearm purchase data of law-abiding citizens to label them as potential domestic terrorists in a politically-driven gun control scheme,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President & General Counsel.

I certainly applaud the Senator as well as the companion bill in the House. But I have to wonder, it the Biden administration is willing to knowingly violate the 4th Amendment, why are they going to pay attention to a mere statute? After all, since the DOJ is part of the Biden administration, so the law will not likely be enforced. But, Perhaps it is good that Congress lays down a marker.