Why Are the Feds Trying to Identify All Gun Owners in Missouri? (Just concealed carry!)

They keep telling you they have noting but good intentions, that to worry about the feds coming for your guns makes you part of “the black helicopter crowd.” But then things like this happen: In Missouri, federal investigators have demanded and obtained from the state government — apparently twice — the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders.

As Matt Drudge notes, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports that in November 2011 and January 2012, the state highway patrol asked for and received the list of about 185,000 concealed weapon permit holders from the motor vehicle department — the only state agency to store all the names, because an indication that one is a permit holder is noted on driver’s licenses. The information is supposed to be held confidentially by the state, but it was turned over — once on-line, once on a disk — to the highway police, which then proceeded to share it with the federal Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General. State senators trying to get to the bottom of what happened, have been told there was no written request for the information. The state highway patrol says, “The information was provided to law enforcement for law enforcement investigative purposes” — not a very enlightening explanation of why every single licensed concealed weapon owner needed to be investigated by state and federal police.

Rob Schaaf, a Republican state senator who is pursuing the matters summed it up this way: “Now we know two things. We know that somebody out there, probably in the federal government, wants the list of all the concealed carry holders in Missouri. We know that now. We know one other piece of information – we know the [highway patrol] department is actively and purposefully concealing that information from us.”

Sooner or later everybody gets their turn in the barrel.

"I'm not divorcee father so I didn't say anything."

"I'm not a smoker so I didn't say anything."

"I'm not a gun owner so I didn't say anything."

Wake up, people! Government does not stop until the people stop it.

Thanks, neverdem.

Your activism and political passion are always appreciated.

Re: “Are the feds going to be making presumptive diagnoses of dementia based on age, and then say you're too old to have firearms?”

I'd be in favor of presumptive diagnoses for criminal behavior.

If they disarmed all Black males, America's murder and robbery rate would drop by 50%.

It's time to push for Constitutional carry nationwide, i.e. no permits or licenses are required to carry concealed, among a bunch of other unrelated initiatives, e.g. green energy BS, Common Core, immigration reform, actual gun grabbing in blue states, etc. We have to get just as organized as the left and push back.

Agreed. If we don't successfully fight them within the system now, we'll be fighting them in the streets, later.

A local judge around here suspended a permit because the elderly man accidentally burned his pant leg while starting a fire in the wood stove, on the premise it was a sign of dementia"

There will no end of excuses and duplicitous behavior aimed at denying Americans their 2nd Amendment rights. Up next; Americans' 1st Amendment rights. The looters will not stop until all the Bill of Rights are wiped off the face of the Earth.

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