{"id":59813,"date":"2016-08-03T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59813"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T21:59:51","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-im-shocked-shocked-i-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59813","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always: I’m Shocked. Shocked, I Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Why are you gun fondlers so paranoid”, the snarky but uninformed “gun safety” parrots chant in smug unison. \u00a0“Why do you oppose universal background checks?”<\/p>\n

“It’s ‘Human Rights Activist’, you closet commie” I gently correct them. \u00a0“And it’s because while the same criminals who aren’t going through background checks now aren’t going to start when they become ‘universal’, it\u00a0will\u00a0<\/em>be used to compile a list of gun owners”.<\/p>\n

“Pshaw”, they say, which surprises me, since I haven’t heard the word “pshaw” since I watched a Ma and Pa Kettle short when I was a little kid. \u00a0“That’s just paranoid”.<\/p>\n

And I respond “As usual, at best, you’re uninformed, and at worst, you’re lying<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the go-to federal oversight agency, conducted an audit of ATF and found it does not remove certain identifiable information, despite the law explicitly mandating it do so. GAO conducted reviews for four data systems, and concluded at least two of ATF\u2019s systems violated official protocols.<\/p>\n

One of the data-collecting systems called Multiple Sales (MS) requires that multiple firearms purchased at once must be reported to ATF by the federal firearms licensee (FFL). ATF policy requires that the bureau internally removes particular data from multiple gun sales reports after two years if the firearm has not been traced to criminal activity. GAO found that ATF does not adhere to its own policy. In fact, \u201cuntil May 2016, MS contained over 10,000 names that were not consistently deleted within the required 2 years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every bit of information you give government gives government an opportunity to use it against you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why are you gun fondlers so paranoid”, the snarky but uninformed “gun safety” parrots chant in smug unison. \u00a0“Why do you oppose universal background checks?” “It’s ‘Human Rights Activist’, you closet commie” I gently correct them. \u00a0“And it’s because while the same criminals who aren’t going through background checks now aren’t going to start when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lie-first","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59817,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813\/revisions\/59817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}