{"id":203742,"date":"2024-06-26T08:33:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=203742"},"modified":"2024-06-26T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:35:05","slug":"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician Embarks on Shameful &#8216;Name-And-Shame&#8217; Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just introduced a bill to ensure that rotten-apple gun dealers who traffic the most firearms into the criminal underworld no longer get lucrative federal contracts. Let\u2019s stop enriching the dealers most responsible for the record gun violence in America.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cb67HFq9MU\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">https:\/\/t.co\/Cb67HFq9MU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaskin\/status\/1805627124721606978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Mark Oliva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time:  <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">6<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There seems to be no limit to how far some gun control politicians will go in their effort to smear the firearm industry. Instead of actually holding criminals accountable for their horrific crimes when they criminally misuse a firearm, apparently, it\u2019s just easier to shift the blame. They would absolve criminals of their wrongdoing and hang the proverbial noose on an industry that actually follows the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/8764?s=1&amp;r=2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>H.R. 8764<\/strong><\/a>, the Clean Firearm Procurement Act. Despite its misleading name, it is a case study for all that is wrong with Washington, D.C.\u2019s political gun control agenda. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4731274-raskin-bill-gun-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>legislation proposes<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;that the U.S. attorney general disregard current law that prohibits the disclosure of sensitive firearm trace data and publish a public list of the firearms most-commonly misused by criminals when they commit violent crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gets worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would then&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4731274-raskin-bill-gun-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">enable<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;the attorney general to block any contract with firearm businesses that are listed as the manufacturer, distributor or seller of those firearms. The legislation ignores that firearms are manufactured, distributed and sold lawfully by federally-licensed companies. All retail transfers take place in a face-to-face transaction and are completed with a signed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 4473.&nbsp; This form requires that the person obtaining the firearm is not a prohibited person and then is verified by an FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-absurd-amp-dangerous\">Absurd &amp; Dangerous<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This legislation is as absurd as it is dangerous. It would weaponize firearm sales to federal agencies and potentially block federal funding to law enforcement agencies to satisfy a political gun control agenda \u2013 all because criminals commit horrific crimes. It would also bypass the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/bidens-dangerous-gun-control-plans-repealing-tiahrt\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">Tiahrt Amendment<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;that prohibits the ATF from sharing sensitive firearm trace data outside of law enforcement for investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That would deprive federal agencies \u2013 including the FBI, ATF, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Protective Service, U.S. Marshals Service, Central Intelligence Agency, State Department, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Internal Revenue Service, National Park Service, U.S. Capitol Police, U.S. Secret Service and even the U.S. Postal Service (yes\u2026 they have a federal law enforcement function) from procuring firearms to sustain their missions all because criminals misuse certain firearms in the commission of their crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-optic-included-ruger-max-9-with-readydot\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/optic-included-ruger-max-9-with-readydot\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">Optic Included: Ruger MAX-9 with ReadyDot<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Raskin is pitching this ill-planned bill as a means to go after \u201cbad-apple gun dealers.\u201d The truth is that\u2019s not what this bill does. Not even close. It saddles the criminal misuse of firearms on manufacturers and retailers that have no connection whatsoever with the horrific crimes that criminals commit. That\u2019s called \u201cblameshifting.\u201d It is intellectually lazy and ignores those who actually cause harm and commit crimes and instead assigns that culpability to a remote third party that is in no way associated with that crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That would be like telling the U.S. Attorney General that he must publish a list of all vehicle manufacturers and dealers of the cars, trucks and SUVs that are used in vehicular homicides, manslaughters and criminal negligence and then tell the federal government they cannot procure those vehicles. The auto industry isn\u2019t responsible for criminal misuse of the product they make and sell. They are no more responsible for crimes committed with their products than the firearm industry is for when the products they lawfully make and sell are later criminally misused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A closer look at the shortsightedness of this legislation is apparent when scrutiny is applied to who Rep. Raskin is attacking with this legislation. The bill would rely on the ATF\u2019s Demand 2 program. To be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/atf-firearm-trafficking-report-licensed-retailers-arent-the-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>placed on this program<\/strong><\/a>, a retailer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/atf-updates-its-demand-2-program-criteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>must have received<\/strong><\/a>\u00a025 trace requests from the ATF within a calendar year, where the time from retail sale to trace is three years or less (what ATF calls \u201ctime-to-crime\u201d). The release of this list disclosed data \u2013 who received a trace, how many traces and the time to crime \u2013 that comes exclusively from the ATF\u2019s National Tracing Center (NTC) Firearm Tracing System (FTS). Because the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/atfs-tiahrt-violation-enables-media-name-and-shame-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">ATF already violated the Tiahrt Amendment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0when they willingly handed over sensitive firearm trace data to USA Today, the American public knows that the Washington, D.C., Metro Police Department is on that list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-pump-action-shotguns-the-all-time-greats\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/pump-action-shotguns-the-all-time-greats\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">Pump Action Shotguns \u2013 The All-Time Greats<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For a short period, there were no commercial federal firearm licensees (FFLs) in the District of Columbia. To avoid a legal mess, the Metro Police Department became the sole FFL, facilitating firearm transfers until private businesses obtained a license to do so. During that short time, D.C. Metro Police was required to report Demand 2 information to the ATF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s not because anyone at the D.C. Metro Police Department did anything wrong. It\u2019s because criminals later misused firearms that were legally transferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more is that the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/firearms\/national-firearms-commerce-and-trafficking-assessment-nfcta-firearms-trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">ATF has published reports<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;that demonstrate that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/atf-firearm-trafficking-report-licensed-retailers-arent-the-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>licensed firearm retailers aren\u2019t the problem<\/strong><\/a>. The ATF\u2019s report found just 136 cases of illegal firearm trafficking tied to an FFL over a five-year period. That\u2019s just 1.6 percent of all 9,700 cases. To put that into more specific perspective, there were&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/firearms\/listing-federal-firearms-licensees\/complete?field_ffl_date_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=2021&amp;ffl_date_month%5Bvalue%5D%5Bmonth%5D=12\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">134,516 FFLs<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>at the end of 2021. That equates to just 0.1 percent of all FFLs being implicated in allegedly illegal firearm trafficking&nbsp;<em><u>before<\/u><\/em>&nbsp;President Joe Biden instituted his&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/who-running-bidens-gun-violence-office\/?hilite=biden\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">whole-of-government<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;crackdown on the firearm industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-let-s-talk-bad-apples\">Let\u2019s Talk \u2018Bad Apples\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A closer look at who is responsible for likely the most ever firearms falling into the wrong hands puts the blame squarely at the feet of President Joe Biden. President Biden ordered the hasty withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. That rushed exit resulted in $7.12 billion worth of military equipment in the hands of the Taliban \u2013 a known terrorist organization that has repeatedly targeted the United States and its citizens. That included 258,000 rifles, including M-16\/M-4 and AK-47 variants, 56,000 machine guns and 31,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/u-s-left-over-7-billion-worth-of-weapons-in-afghanistan-state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>according to a report<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;by Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas), who was then Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn\u2019t account for the 1,845 60mm and 82mm mortar systems, over one million mortar rounds, 224 122mm howitzer artillery systems, 180,000 \u201cair-to-ground\u201d munitions, 18,000 precision and non-precision \u201cgravity\u201d bombs and 160,000 precision and non-precision aviation rockets. That\u2019s also not counting the military aircraft, armored vehicles or 17,400 sets of night vision devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s also not taking into consideration the U.S. government\u2019s fault in allowing firearms to cross the border into Mexico during the ill-fated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/01\/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>Operation Fast &amp; Furious scandal<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that cost the life of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and innocent lives in Mexico. President Biden was serving as Vice President when this scandal occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-are-revolvers-a-liability\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/are-revolvers-a-liability\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\">Are Revolvers A Liability?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill is a political ploy to make an end-run on the Tiahrt Amendment. That\u2019s the law that prevents politicians like Rep. Raskin from misusing sensitive firearm trace data for political purposes. Former ATF Acting Director Michael Sullivan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/tiahrt-atf-bloomberg\/2024\/05\/29\/id\/1166636\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\"><strong>recently wrote a Newsmax op-ed<\/strong><\/a>, decrying overtures to rescind the law that would only serve political agendas and put active and ongoing investigations, and potentially the lives and safety of law enforcement in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Raskin isn\u2019t serving the people of Maryland or the rest of the United States when he proposes this legislation. He\u2019s serving special interest gun control groups and he\u2019d do it at the risk of depriving federal agencies the tools they need to protect the American public from threats abroad and criminals within. His \u201cname-and-shame\u201d bill is shameful from its inception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mark Oliva is Managing Director of Public Affairs for NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association. He is a retired Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant with 25 years of service, including tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Albania, and Zaire.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"politician-embarks-on-shameful-name-and-shame-agenda\" title=\"Politician Embarks on Shameful 'Name-And-Shame' Agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced\u00a0H.R. 8764, the Clean Firearm Procurement Act. Despite its misleading name, it is a case study for all that is wrong with Washington, D.C.\u2019s political gun control agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":203756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,25,240],"tags":[132,1802,311],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-this-week","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news-wire","12":"tag-nssf"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Raskin_Twitter-150x114.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203755,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742\/revisions\/203755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203742"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=203742"},{"taxonomy":"hunt365","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hunt365?post=203742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}