The state of California has a history of not being really good with gun owners’ personal data. After all, they created a concealed carry database that was, for a time, accessible to pretty much anyone, so anybody could just look up who had a concealed carry license at a time when the state was still “may issue.” Sure, they fixed it, but who doesn’t think to check that from the start?
But hey, they’re just gun owners. Those aren’t real people in California, now are they?
Lest we think they learned their lesson, though, another bill worming its way through the system will likely put at least some of that same data at risk, all in the name of public safety.
It’s a familiar refrain from the gun control lobby: Pass a law to “protect public safety” and that SEEMS a reasonable infringement on gun rights, then expand it past all common sense simply to hassle law abiding gun owners.
Such is the case with AB 1743, a bill that would expand access to tracing data reported to the Department of Justice. As Rick Travis explains in the latest installment of CRPA TV, expanding access to this sensitive information creates a massive vulnerability for a repeat of the DOJ data leak that occurred just over three years ago.
The bill provides this tracing data to universities, colleges, and community colleges. You might assume there’s some massive demand from California’s academic community for this information.
Well, according to CRPA, just one university supports this bill…along with a bunch of anti-gun groups.
Weird, ain’t it?
The truth is that this tracing data isn’t really necessary for academic purposes. I know that some academics out there will probably disagree with me, but there are about three of them who I might consider listening to, and I doubt they’ll be the ones taking issue with what I said; thus, I don’t care. This isn’t about academics, research, or anything else.
This is about empowering the anti-gunners with information they will then use to try to justify their attacks on the Second Amendment.
Nothing in that tracing information will tell them who stole the gun, who trafficked a gun, or anything else related to criminal activity, with a very small exception for straw buys. Maybe. That’s if they can tell it’s a straw buy from the tracing information, and that’s highly unlikely since that requires more extensive investigation than just a gun trace.
So what is this about?
My guess is that they know a lot of us are sensitive about our personal information, and they’re hoping we’ll jump off the gun ownership train if it looks like our data might get shared around. That’s just a hunch, though.
What I do know is that this is California being California again, and treating gun owners as if they’re all criminals, even as the actual criminals completely ignore the entire system put it place to keep them in check. Supposedly.
They pass this, and I know the lawsuits will come fast and furious (yes, I used that phrase on purpose, and I think you can guess why). Not that any of the lawmakers care. After all, it’s just taxpayer money that will go toward fighting to defend this trainwreck of a bill.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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