The FBI can access the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) and any other databases used to screen wouldbe gun purchasers. They can crosscheck this with data about charges, convictions, mental institutionalizations, raw intel from informants and social media, etc.
Since it is the FBI’s job to look for threats, they presumably create and monitor long lists of potentially violent, racist loons and criminals — at least they ought to. Given the DoJ/FBI’s history of integrity, abusing that capability has never entered their minds... I sort of doubt it in this particular case.
Given the DoJ/FBI’s history of integrity, abusing that capability has never entered their minds... I sort of doubt it in this particular case.
I’m willing to bet that they’ve been abusing that capability longer than we know.