EXCLUSIVE: Documents Show FBI and ATF Warrantless Surveillance Through Gun Background Checks

EXCLUSIVE: Documents Show FBI and ATF Warrantless Surveillance Through Gun Background Checks
FBI and ATF agents investigate a home connected to the Christmas Day bombing, in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 26, 2020. Mark Humphrey/AP Photo
Emily Miller
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been tracking gun owners without a warrant in a coordinated system with the FBI, according to documents exclusively reviewed by The Epoch Times.

Hundreds of pages of documents produced to Gun Owners of America from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show ATF agents telling the FBI to daily monitor specific people through the federal background system when they lawfully purchase guns.

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