EXCLUSIVE: Texas Coordinates With ATF to Share Income of Residents for Warrantless Monitoring

EXCLUSIVE: Texas Coordinates With ATF to Share Income of Residents for Warrantless Monitoring
Firearms in Houston, Texas, on February 18, 2023. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images
Emily Miller
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Texas secretly gives its citizens’ incomes to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Documents show this has led to at least one person being monitored by the feds without a warrant through the federal gun background check system. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) told The Epoch Times that it has written contracts with ATF  for “sharing income information” for criminal investigations. The revelation may lead to oversight by the legislature.

Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain, a Republican, is “deeply troubled” about this coordination with the state’s unemployment agency and federal government.

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