At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

  • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
    33·
    6 days ago

    I agree, we need action to protect people’s privacy from unethical warrantless searches and monitoring.

    Snowden tried to warn us…

      • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
        24·
        6 days ago

        Oh I got the point Squid, I disagree :)

        Tell me, do you feel Jan 6th was a genuine coup attempt? As in, DJT and his ilk were actually interested in and attempting to maintain and consolidate their power in the government outside of the election results?

        • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          6 days ago

          The facts reported by the Jan 6th committee made it clear that it was a premeditated coup attempt.

          • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
            2·
            6 days ago

            Exactly. Now assuming they were successful (or a future attempt is) how do we fight them? I somehow doubt a peaceful march will sway them to restore democracy.

            • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              5 days ago

              What does this have to do with the post subject? I don’t think anyone here is suggesting a peaceful march in that case.

              • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
                1·
                5 days ago

                I mistakenly thought Squid was suggesting that privacy for gun owners wasn’t a valid topic for discussion.

                Following that, I was establishing the importance of privacy for gun owners because, well… We may need them if there is a successful coup.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          31·
          6 days ago

          I have no idea what you mean by “DJT and his ilk.” None of them were breaking into congress. The people that were wanted to install Trump as president and do it by executing Mike Pence. They made that very clear. So yes, that was a coup attempt. I’m not sure why you think Trump had to be directly involved to make it a coup attempt.

          • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
            1·
            6 days ago

            If you don’t know who “DJT and his ilk” are, then who is “them” in your response?

            Point is, if your government is about to be overrun, why would you give the government/state a monopoly on violence?

            Do you trust the police/military to be the sole owners of firearms given the current political climate? I know you don’t like cops Squid, and Trump has already threatened to deploy the military against civilians and political opponents.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              11·
              6 days ago

              I thought your point is it wasn’t a coup attempt.

              Your point seems to keep changing.

              You also seem to think I want to ban guns for some reason. I don’t know why because I never said I did.

              • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
                1·
                6 days ago

                My point hasn’t changed at all, my point was to establish that you agree it was a coup attempt.

                Given a possible coup, a list of all gun owners (regardless of political affiliation) is bad. Privacy rights are important, even for people we disagree with.

                  • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
                    1·
                    6 days ago

                    Maybe I really did miss the point. What did you mean by, “Now is not the time to talk about gun privacy control.”

                    I took it to mean you didn’t think it was a valid issue for discussion.