By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
If the ATF gets its way, new gun owners will have to identify their ethnicity on firearm records.
But lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill to eliminate that controversial requirement, The Hill reports.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., demanded answers.
“The right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms is an individual right guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” Blunt wrote in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over the weekend. “The constitutional right of a citizen to own a firearm has nothing to do with race or ethnicity.”
He added: “It is disconcerting that the U.S. government is gathering this type of data on citizens when there is no connection between purchasing a firearm and an individual’s race or ethnicity. Any measure that may interfere with a citizen’s ability to exercise his or her constitutional right to purchase a firearm needs to be questioned.”
