The FBI worked hand in hand with federal agencies for nearly a decade to strip at least 60 U.S. citizens of their gun rights - a once-secret operation largely brought to light as part of a Washington Examiner investigation.
Between 2011 and 2019, the FBI coordinated with the Secret Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain signatures on internal bureau forms from citizens at their homes and in other undisclosed locations that stripped their rights to own, buy, or even use firearms, according to multiple reports from the Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller beginning in September 2022.
FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS SOUND ALARM ON LINK TO SECRET AGREEMENT STRIPPING GUN RIGHTS. "Bureaucrats at the FBI created an unconstitutional form without authorization from any statute and began pressuring people with mental illness to give up their rights to own a firearm," Aidan Johnston, a lobbyist for Gun Owners of America, the firearms rights group that's uncovered documents in connection to the FBI's form as part of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, told the Washington Examiner.
"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.
A March report by the Washington Examiner uncovered that the FBI worked behind closed doors to provide the forms to medical centers in New Hampshire, Delaware , Massachusetts, and Oklahoma.
The agencies obtained signatures from citizens and forwarded forms to the bureau, which proved concerning to a former top DHS official under President Donald Trump.
Jordan claimed in December 2022 he was eyeing subpoenas in connection to the forms, while his spokesman, Russell Dye, said on Friday , "This is something we are absolutely looking into." Dye's comment was tucked into a Friday story on FBI whistleblowers sounding the alarm over the bureau being linked to a covert 2019 plea agreement conditioned by the U.S. government that stripped a defendant of their gun rights, per a March 17 Washington Examiner report.
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