U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The FBI raid on President Donald Trump’s Florida home came as little surprise to the gun rights community. After all, the Department of Justice was weaponized against us the second the current occupants of the White House began measuring the drapes. Their agents have been running and gunning without any adult supervision ever since. So, it was only a matter of time before they became emboldened enough to raid a former President’s home – armed with weapons of war, no less.
To be clear, in the pre-Biden years when we actually had civil rights, if a federal law enforcement agency sought documents for an inquiry – like they wanted from President Trump – they would issue a subpoena, not a search warrant. That’s the way the DOJ worked before it was hired out as muscle for the DNC. Nowadays, if they’re investigating a Republican – even a former president – they send teams of armed agents instead of a fax.
According to news actors on cable TV, Tuesday’s FBI raid seems to fall somewhere between Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon to the firing on Fort Sumter. While the precedent and ramifications are extremely troubling, they’re certainly nothing new, especially for us. We’ve grown accustomed to civil rights abuse from the so-called Justice Department. We’ve been documenting their misdeeds since Joe Biden took his oath of office, which he seemingly violates nearly every day.
A few examples:
- An ATF agent was caught creating an illegal gun registry with her personal cellphone during a gun shop audit.
- ATF agents conducted a surprise firearm inspection at a Delaware man’s home without a search warrant.
- FBI and ATF agents targeted a young Florida man with no criminal record over a short-barreled rifle.
- IRS spends $700,000 on ammunition for its agents.
- ATF inflates “ghost gun” numbers hoping Congress inflates his budget.
- ATF FFL revocations increase 500%.
- Biden increases ATF’s budget by $1.7 billion.
- Leaked report shows ATF considers private gunmakers to be criminals, terrorists and extremists
If you see something, say something.
There’s an old adage: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. This is certainly true with federal agents’ misdeeds. The best way to stop federal overreach is by exposing it, each and every time.
This approach works. To the best of our knowledge, ATF has not conducted another warrantless home inspection in Delaware since a video of their actions went viral. Nearly everyone in the gun rights community helped the word get out.
Ours is a close community with numerous lines of communication. It is one of our strengths. When something bad happens to one of us, we can get the world out quickly. We need to ramp this up.
The FBI’s raid is just the latest example of how little the Biden-Harris administration values our civil rights – especially our Second Amendment rights. If they would do this to a former President – a man with Secret Service protection – what wouldn’t they do to one of us?
If you see something, say something.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
Our system of checks and balances has been being destroyed for decades.
Under this administration it is being accelerated.
Weaponized ? Criminalized is more like it ! FJB and the FBI . They are now on the wrong side of the law .
First rule of survival: you never, ever talk to federal law enforcement. Never. Ever. They can communicate with you through subpoena or through your local sheriff. You must understand one truth of historic proportion while trying to understand and then explain the actions of our rogue federal government. Point one: ideologies die slow and agonizing deaths. They leave a big crater and a big effective casualty radius when they die. Just look at the former Soviet Union as an example. The ideology currently in its death throes is the Progressive New Left. This toxic blend of Cultural Marxism and authoritarianism… Read more »
Christopher Wray “deplorable and dangerous.” sound familiar Hillary Regardless of your politics you should be terrified at the thought that one party would try to do anything they could to circumvent the free election process. And take freedom of choice from voters in order to hold on to power. Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray ordering their Gestapo to raid Trump’s home is political, unethical. When the FBI’s management acts like Democrat’s private police force I have to ask Director Wray, why has Bidens sons home or Clintons home not been raided? Why is James Comey not been prosecuted or Stalk… Read more »
This is what honest people get for all the years of obedient gun law “compliance”. And it confirms why the illegal firearms market has always thrived. Complying with registration just gives the conniving authorities the data needed to track you whether you’ve done anything or not. And this is apart from giving your personal info out to the liquored-up mobs and Democratic “activists” that hunt “Trump supporters”.
It’s only the start. Desperation has set in
Weaponized ? Criminalized is more like it . Fuck Joe Biden and the FBI .
Trump was Waco’d and Ruby Ridged. The idea you need the Gestapo raid on a house already protected by secret service agents is obvious intimidation. Nothing else.
We are doomed as a country because probably 60% of the country sees nothing wrong with this.
I note that in the staged picture the lead agent is initiating deadly force before encountering any deadly force. If police, of any kind, initiate the use of deadly force, then they can not be said to be merely defending themselves.
so what you are saying is there’s a chance… that the Obiden administration is doing this on purpose? That ‘The One’ is now doing what he couldn’t do when he was in plain sight and have it tied to him? A sort of fundamental transformation of america? ….’come on, man! no joke! NO JOKE!