Gun Owners Group Calls for Inquiry Into Firearms Industry’s Secret Sharing of Customer Data

Weapons owners for security while asked a propublica investigation This is how detailed National Shooting Sports Foundation Sensitive personal information about gun buyers, handed over to political operations while presenting himself as a fierce lawyer to the privacy of firearms. Letter – Last week, the NSSF’s secret program of the NSF, which was sent to the FBI, the FBS and Alcohol, Tobacco, Tobacco, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“Privacy of gun owners is not a guerrilla or ideological issue,” Malcolm Smith, A Weapons owners for safety Member. “Regardless of industry, customers can complain to use children’s personal information in a secret scheme like underwear and children’s age and are not allowed.”

Weapons owners for safety have been operated since 2019 by the Organization of Weapons Violence Prevention QiffordIn 2011, AIZONA was founded by AIZONA Giffords, nine states and nine states have a “common sense” measures to reduce the “common sense” and firearms and firearms.

This ATF accepted the letter, but there was no other comment. This Fbi, Ftc and NSF did not meet the questions and description of the Propublican.

The NSSF previously defended the data collection and “activities, all the time are legal entities and the terms and conditions of any individual manufacturers, company, information brokers or other institution.” The organization represents thousands of firearms and ammunition manufacturers, distributors and retailers with thousands of firearms and ammunition. The National Rifle Association, without recognizing as head lobbies for gun owners, is respectful and effective in the work, political and arms communities of the NSP.

Richard Blumenthal, D-Cong. November November last year, Blumenthal, then the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee, then Asked for detailed information from NSSF Companies that provide information from the trading group to the database, the type of customer details that are shared and data are still used. The trading team did not answer the senator’s questions.

“The concern of the NSSF, the collection of hidden information increases serious security and privacy concerns,” Blumenthal said. “And the American people deserve the answers.”

Any request for any investigation for the investigation, especially the former political support for the President of NSP.

Propublican investigation Without giving hundreds of thousands of names, addresses and other private information, including customer knowledge or consent, including CLOCK, Smith & Wesson and Remington, including their customer knowledge or consent, then entered into the NSSF, which has become a massive database. The database was used for the election support of weapons according to the selected candidates of the industrial candidates working for the White House and Congress.

Privacy experts said that companies shared information with the NSF violated the federal and government bans against the federal and unfair work experience. Under the Federal Law, companies must follow their privacy policies and be clear how to use consumer information, privacy experts said.

With dozens of these gun producers, a propublica review of dozens of warranty cards, none of the purchasers would be used for political purposes. (Most companies that name NSSF documents refused to comment or did not respond to Propublic.

In 2016, the first president of Donald Trump was elected President and the Republican Senate and a push to help the NSP Worked with consulting Cambridge Analytica for a turbuge information where the information is in potential voters. Cambridge adapted to the people in the database with 5,000 additional facts. This Details have changed a lot. Income, debts and religious affiliations of potential voters, analysts learned whether the artist Thomas Kinkade and underwear women were plus or petite.

ProPublica gained part of the NSSF database containing thousands of people names, addresses and other information. Propublica reached 6,000 people in the list. Almost all of those who respond, including gun owners, said, surprising or frustration of what they are in the database.

In the investigation, Smith, the new Director of the FBIT, the new director Kash Patel, spoke in favor of the protection of arms owners’ privacy rights.

“Surely, Smith wrote” FBIT, no organization or firefighters of the government, the firefighter of the organization, understands the importance of protecting the hidden database of firefighters and weapons.

Smith, JP Morgan Bank and the registered Republican 69-year-old Scholarship Smith began as a teenager when his father took a remington rifle for bird hunting. Over the years, the passion was strengthened and Smith began to collect weapons in response to political efforts to limit gun access.

“Nancy pelosi did not like anything, I heard I would be, I felt I would be.”

However, he joined Giffords in 2020 after concerns with extremism in arms rights circles. Recently, he said that the powers of the energy efficiency catch in a large amount one Hidden Citizen Information Inspired the Social Security Department and the IRS request for government activities. (Doe officials did not respond to a request for comment.)

“Preliminary disclosures on the National Shooting Sports Foundation were an alarm. But now it should be four alarms,” ​​he said. “We had to live a kind of confidentiality in our lives and probably not to have NSFs. And the doe really thinks I do not own.”