The FBI worked hand in hand with federal agencies for nearly a decade to strip at least 60 US citizens of their gun rights — a once-secret operation largely brought to light as part of a dcexaminer investigation.
Further, the Gun Control Act of 1968, a federalregulating firearms, does not mention citizens being able to self-identify as unfit to own guns. Rather, the law outlines that a person could be barred from owning guns if they're “adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to a mental institution."has not found evidence that signatories were either adjudicated or placed into an institution.
"The NICS Indices Self-Submission form was created to provide an avenue for individuals to self-report to the NICS Section when individuals felt they were a danger to themselves or others," an FBI spokesperson said in September 2022, noting the forms were"discontinued" in December 2019 for undisclosed reasons.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on 'worldwide threats to the homeland', Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 on Capitol Hill Washington.the existence of the forms. But subsequent reports by outlets including theprovided evidence of them being used on U.S. citizens — with documents signed in states like Massachusetts, Michigan, and Maine.
The first batch of signed forms GOA obtained was accompanied with FBI records showing signatories included those who made violent threats in online chat rooms, in person, and onprovide little indication of signatory backgrounds or their actions that culminated in the government making contact.
, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma. In turn, these centers, some of which are mental health clinics, fed forms to patients and sent completed records back to the government.
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