It’s Time for the FBI to Stop Spying on Gun Owners

If you ever needed proof that the federal government treats gun owners like second-class citizens, look no further than the FBI’s warrantless NICS Monitoring Program.

This isn’t rumor or speculation. This is FOIA-confirmed, judge-protected surveillance of law-abiding Americans whose only “crime” was buying a firearm legally.

As GOA’s Ben explained, the FBI built a back-door system that allows any law-enforcement officer in America to secretly place any gun owner under monitoring for up to six months at a time. No warrant, no probable cause, no notice.

And absolutely no way for the gun owner to challenge it.

Every time the target runs a NICS check during a firearm purchase, the officer who requested surveillance gets an instant notification, a real-time ping tracking your lawful activity.

This is a silent list of Americans being watched simply for exercising a constitutional right.

And it gets worse. GOA uncovered cases where individuals were placed under unlimited, indefinite NICS monitoring for reasons as flimsy as “subscribes to anti-government ideology,” whatever that means.

That’s protected speech, not a criminal act. One woman was monitored simply because she dated a man accused of threatening a federal official. Another case placed a mother under surveillance because her son was prohibited.

This is guilt by association, weaponized through the federal background check system.

But the biggest red flag?

The FBI is hiding 4,100 pages of documents related to the program. Despite court orders requiring regular document production, the DOJ and FBI have slow-rolled GOA’s FOIA request for over a year and a half.

Even under the Trump administration, federal bureaucrats are stonewalling, protecting a surveillance system they know cannot survive public scrutiny.

If the FBI truly believed this program was lawful, transparent, and justified, they wouldn’t be burying thousands of pages of records in endless “consultations.”

They’re hiding it because the abuse is far more extensive than the handful of examples GOA has already dragged into the light.

Enough is enough. A federal agency should never be allowed to track gun owners without warrants, oversight, or due process.

The NICS Monitoring Program is unconstitutional on its face, and it’s time to end it and expose every page the FBI is still trying to hide.

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