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Constitutional Carry Expands to 26 States; ATF Doing Warrantless Home Visits | Facts Matter

Facts Matter

The Epoch Times

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🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Over the past three years, 11 states have adopted constitutional carry, challenging the narrative of widespread gun control support. However, simultaneously, the federal government, particularly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is tightening gun restrictions. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1

The ATF is conducting warrantless surveillance, tracking Americans' financial data and gun purchases, citing reasons like low income and legal firearm transactions for surveillance. They've also embarked on door-to-door campaigns to confiscate certain gun parts reclassified as illegal, like reset triggers for AR-15 rifles.

While states expand gun rights, the ATF's actions have raised concerns about individual privacy and government overreach. This creates a paradox where state-level gun rights grow while federal-level regulations tighten.

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0:00.0

Right now, in regards to the Second Amendment here in America, there are two very strong

0:17.9

forces moving in exactly the opposite directions.

0:21.6

Because in the one hand, you have over half the states here in the United States allowing

0:25.8

constitutional carry, meaning that people can conceal carry their firearms without any

0:29.9

sort of a permit, but on the other hand, you have the federal government, using their

0:34.7

bureaucratic authority, reclassifying certain gun parts to make them illegal, and then sending

0:40.1

out their agents in order to go door to door to confiscate these so-called illegal guns.

0:45.5

However, to get to the bottom of what's really happening here, let's start at the very

0:49.3

beginning.

0:50.3

While the narrative that's been coming out of the mainstream media for a very long time

0:54.0

now appears to exclusively focus on restricting the Second Amendment and making it seem like

0:59.2

that is the popular general opinion in reality.

1:02.5

What's really happening is that across the country, the Second Amendment is actually expanding.

1:07.4

For instance, in April of this year, over in the state of Florida, Governor Ronda Santa

1:11.5

signed into law a new bill.

1:13.0

It was called House Bill 543.

1:15.9

This new law is what's known as a constitutional carry law.

1:19.5

And what it does in practice is that it strengthens the Second Amendment rights of the people

1:23.8

who are living in Florida by allowing them to conceal carry their weapons without any sort

1:28.5

of a government-issued permit, basically, as long as you are a legal gun owner, you are

1:34.0

now allowed to conceal carry within the state, with the idea being that such a right is actually

1:38.6

bestowed upon you by the Constitution itself.

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