{"id":32493,"date":"2014-01-31T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=32493"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:17:55","slug":"dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to laugh at people who told me that the government actively monitors and tracks the activities of gun owners. But in light of a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/files\/assets\/33780-33791%202014.03.31%20response.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees\" title=\"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> obtained by the ACLU, now I think I&#8217;m the one who deserves to be laughed at.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives collaborated on plans to monitor gun show attendees using automatic license plate readers, according to a newly disclosed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/files\/assets\/33780-33791%202014.03.31%20response.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees\" title=\"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEA email obtained <\/a>by the ACLU through the Freedom of Information Act.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The April 2009 email states that \u201cDEA Phoenix Division Office is working closely with ATF on attacking the guns going to [redacted] and the gun shows, to include programs\/operation with LPRs at the gun shows.\u201d The government redacted the rest of the email, but when we received this document we concluded that these agencies used license plate readers to collect information about <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-collecting-basics\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees\" title=\"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees\">law-abiding citizens<\/a> attending gun shows. An automatic license plate reader cannot distinguish between people transporting illegal guns and those transporting legal guns, or no guns at all; it only documents the presence of any car driving to the event. Mere attendance at a gun show, it appeared, would have been enough to have one&#8217;s presence noted in a DEA database.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the government denied that the plan was ever carried out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal in the email was only a suggestion. It was never authorized by DEA, and the idea under discussion in the email was never launched,\u2019\u2019 DEA administrator Michele Leonhart told The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/federal-agency-weighed-spying-on-cars-at-gun-shows-1422398739\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees\" title=\"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether the DEA or ATF actually implemented the plan, why are they even thinking about doing this in the first place? \u00a0Ostensibly, it would be to track cartel operatives looking to score some firearms from unscrupulous gun sellers. \u00a0But if that&#8217;s the case, why track all of the attendees \u00a0Why build a massive database of citizens who are simply exercising their fundamental right to keep and bear arms?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have the answer to that question. \u00a0Neither does the National Rifle Association. \u00a0But spokesperson\u00a0Andrew Arulanandam said that the nation&#8217;s gun lobby is \u201clooking into this to see if gun owners were improperly targeted, and has no further comment until we have all the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32496\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gun-show.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dea-atf-planned-track-gun-show-attendees\" title=\"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32496\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32496\" title=\"DEA, ATF Planned to Track Gun Show Attendees\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gun-show.jpg\" alt=\"Page 5 of the DOJ letter to the ACLU. (Photo ACLU)\" width=\"704\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gun-show.jpg 704w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gun-show-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gun-show-394x300.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 5 of the DOJ letter to the ACLU. 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