ATF policy irks dealers, risks privacy intrusion, racial profiling: critics
The Obama administration quietly has been forcing new gun buyers to declare their race and ethnicity, a policy change that critics say provides little law enforcement value while creating the risk of privacy intrusions and racial profiling.
With little fanfare, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2012 amended its Form 4473 — the transactional record the government requires gun purchasers and sellers to fill out when buying a firearm — to identify buyers as either Hispanic, Latino or not. Then a buyer must check his or her race: Indian, Asian, black, Pacific Islander or white.
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Isn't that, like, racist?
ReplyDeleteno idiot 12:51PM
ReplyDeleteit is to know exactly who you are when they come shoot you when they try to take it...
This is all political and leading toward the further polarization of races and cultures. Thanks, gov't.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that illegal?
ReplyDeleteYou can chose to provide age, race, and religion under Federal Law, it is not mandated.
just put down pacific islander or indian.
ReplyDeleteThe gestapo is alive and well in the US.
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