{"id":61803,"date":"2020-11-14T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61803"},"modified":"2020-11-14T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:41:42","slug":"61803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61803","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Elites Call for Dangerous Gun Data Changes<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems antigun billionaires think there\u2019s nothing a few dollars and manipulation of government data can\u2019t fix. Arnold Ventures, ran by former Enron trader John and Laura Arnold, is a billionaire philanthropy organization that wants to save us from ourselves through their deep pockets. More specifically, they seek to restrict the freedom to keep and bear arms<\/p>\n

Arnold Ventures wishes to paint a grim picture that firearms are an epidemic much like political activist and gun control billionaire Michael Bloomberg. John and Laura Arnold have commissioned the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago to construct and convene a panel of medical professionals to organize a wishlist of dangerous and overreaching proposals. These demands are detailed in the\u00a0Blueprint for a U.S. Firearms Data Infrastructure<\/strong><\/a>. With major changes possible in Washington, D.C., it is crucial to not only examine the large,\u00a0sweeping gun control proposals<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0but also to look at the less attention-grabbing proposals, like changing how the government collects, shares, and presents data. Gun control advocates in Congress are already turning to items on this wish list in their latest proposals, including the misleadingly titled, \u201cATF Improvement and Modernization Act<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-Gun Data Wishlist<\/strong><\/h3>\n

One goal of the NORC panel is to implement a semi-annual random household survey of Americans\u2019 firearm ownership. That\u2019s right. Big money wants to look into America\u2019s homes and peer into the\u00a0gun safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The survey would include questions around firearm acquisition, type, and number owned, and storage method. This would lay the foundation for a national gun registry \u2013 forbidden by federal law. Gun owners are very reluctant to provide private information about their personal belongings to any level of government, especially when private organizations that advocate for more restrictions on the Second Amendment have access to said data. The violation of privacy advocated by the NORC, unfortunately, continues to expand from here.<\/p>\n

The panel also recommends that the federal government grant access to restricted data including \u201cNIBRS, NVDRS, NICS, NEISS, HCUP, ATF Trace, ATF new firearms and firearm transactions, and the GSS\u201d to advocacy groups and researchers.<\/p>\n

The information in these systems is restricted for good reason. The data are collected to aid law enforcement investigations, not create policy and legislation. Securing access to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Trace data, for example, has been a priority of antigun proponents for years. Unregulated access to ATF Trace poses numerous dangers since information about\u00a0firearm tracing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0would be available for public consumption, risking ongoing investigations, the safety of witnesses, and law enforcement. Contrary to anti-gun messaging, law enforcement agencies support limited access to ATF Trace data. For instance, the\u00a0Fraternal Order of Police<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0supports measures, like the\u00a0Tiahrt Amendment<\/strong><\/a>, which would prevent the release of firearm trace data to any entity except law enforcement. Even former Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s police commissioner Ray Kelly opposed the release of trace data to the City of Chicago for use in litigation against members of the firearms industry. The Tiahrt Amendment has been the law since it was passed in 2003.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the NORC calls for a design of data collection by ATF for incomplete, unfinished firearm receivers as their top priority. Gun control groups sensationalize \u201cghost guns<\/strong><\/a>\u201d to spark fears when in reality they\u2019re unfinished hunks of metal or plastic that must be drilled and machined by the end-user to be considered a firearm receiver by ATF, at which point ATF has regulatory authority.<\/p>\n

Creating a firearm for\u00a0personal use<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with no intent to sell it is and has always been legal in America. \u00a0Undetectable firearms<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a03D printed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or any other method are regulated under the 1968 Gun Control Act and the 1988 Undetectable Firearms Act. Every firearm made \u2013 including any DYI firearm \u2013 must by law contain metal so it is detectable by metal detectors. And, as a practical matter, firearms must have metal components like a barrel for the firearm to function. These are facts that gun control proponents gloss over.<\/p>\n

Showing Their Hand<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Arnold Venture\u2019s philanthropic outreach sounds well-intentioned, but they\u2019re serving up snake oil when they peddle firearms as a disease. They literally ask to tear off the warning labels such as the common-sense ATF disclaimer on trace statistics that states, \u201cNot all firearms used in crime are traced and not all firearms traced are used in crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the key requests made in the NORC\u2019s blueprint is for ATF to \u201cRemove disclaimers prohibiting interpretation of the data.\u201d This very clearly shows Arnold Ventures\u2019 and NORC\u2019s hand. They don\u2019t care what the data actually show and what limitations are to these collections. They want a blank check to manipulate and misconstrue data from legitimate federal agencies to sway public opinion \u2013 precisely why Congress mandated the warning in the first place.<\/p>\n

Analysis is one thing. Deliberately shielding the public from what the data actually mean is another. The ability for private entities to ignore valid disclaimers surrounding data sets would fuel the emotional narrative that firearms are to blame for the world\u2019s problems, not those who break the law to misuse them.<\/p>\n

The overall NORC action plan uses the public health halo as a justification for extensive information gathering. The report clearly explains that the data are to be made available to approved researchers to drive legislation and policy at all levels.<\/p>\n

Arnold Ventures and the panel from NORC want to use taxpayer funds to build programs that will strip law-abiding individuals of their gun rights. These changes will not reduce crime nor increase public safety, and they certainly do not affect public health. They will, however, have devastating impacts on individual freedoms and the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social Elites Call for Dangerous Gun Data Changes It seems antigun billionaires think there\u2019s nothing a few dollars and manipulation of government data can\u2019t fix. Arnold Ventures, ran by former Enron trader John and Laura Arnold, is a billionaire philanthropy organization that wants to save us from ourselves through their deep pockets. More specifically, they … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61804,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803\/revisions\/61804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}