Via The Truth About Guns by Darwin Nercesian
Michigan and Hawaii, both Democrat-led states, have launched taxpayer-funded tip lines for individuals looking to report perceived firearms violations anonymously. While these dumpster fire states claim the lines are aimed at lawbreakers, Second Amendment groups are reasonably skeptical, as they should be, because such a system can easily be abused. Let’s face it, we know that the weaponization of this service against law-abiding gun owners is exactly what they are intended for.
On Thursday, October 10, Hawaii’s Democrat Governor Josh Green announced the state’s Department of Law Enforcement had established a confidential “Gun Tip Line for people to make anonymous reports of illegal gun ownership and gun crimes,” where tipsters can either call, text or drop a dime via the DLE’s website or a downloadable app where they can submit photographs and videos to back up their report.
The governor’s office went even further during the brown shirt recruiting exercise saying, “People reporting tips are encouraged to leave detailed information including the names of those in possession of illegal guns or committing gun crimes, a location where those people may be found and a description of the guns.” Sure, what could go wrong when hiring unpaid, untrained, overzealous, anti-Second Amendment sycophants typically knowing very little about firearms to play the role of a detective, spying on and recording their neighbors?
Meanwhile, Gretchen “Lockdown” Whitmer, known for hosting the most oppressive COVID lockdowns in America while still having more deaths per capita than any neighboring Midwestern states, signed House Bill 5503, a measure passed off as an education funding bill that allocates $1 million in School Aid Funding to support an anonymous tip line for students to report firearms thought to be “improperly stored.”
The bill goes on to mandate that Michigan’s Department of Education develop materials concerning improper storage of firearms, including tip line usage, and distribute those materials to school districts across the state. The Gestapo may not pay you for your work, but you will receive free training, whether you want it or not.
As the NRA-ILA points out, language regarding the tip line was added to the bill as an amendment that was then swiftly passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature.
“The expedited pace and the silencing of opposition when the bill came up for a floor vote underscores the reality that this was a political move and another attack on gun owners,” says the NRA.
These tiplines will ultimately create a situation that will lead to wasted resources, unwarranted confrontations with law enforcement and what could amount to unconstitutional searches of homes, businesses and other private property based on vendettas and other nefarious agendas. Not only does this negatively impact the community’s relationship with authorities, but those who abuse the tip lines will undoubtedly drive wedges within communities as well, drawing lines at a time when we need to be working together to strengthen and solidify those connections.
Read in its entirety at thetruthaboutguns.com.
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How does some Ken or Karen know if someone’s guns are illegal?
Liberals and gun haters are thrilled! This will be so much easier than having to make those “swatting” calls to 911. Law enforcement can use these “tips” for probable cause to get search warrants.”
Liberals always claim Red Flag Laws are not effective because they require family members and close relatives to take action. Now, with a state mandated anonymous tip line, people can “report” anyone they don’t like. The call can state “Fred Smith was threatening neighbors with an ASSAULT RIFLE!” Even if all he did was carry a rifle case into his house. Or, if he was not handling a gun at all. The police will show up at his door. Again, because the tip is anonymous, people will be able to cause a lot of damage.
I remember back in grade school in the sixties hearing how in the Soviet Union neighbors would turn you in to the government for any minor offense and children were encouraged to snitch on their parents.
And here we are today in the USA. I’m sorry what party is for freedom and what party is for tyranny? I think it’s pretty clear.
Yep. Democrats want to turn the US into a totalitarian state. While Obamacare was moving through Congress, only FOX reported a story about the White House website. The WH web site had a snitch link to report people. Saw it myself. Unfortunately, I lost the screen captures when my old PC crashed in 2014.
Clicking on the link played a 45 second video by David Axelrod. He stated it was a “patriotic duty” to report people for “spreading lies and misinformation” about the Affordable Care Act. The video ended. Then a form opened, with fields to input the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses of anyone they had heard “spreading lies or misinformation” as well as anyone they “suspected” might be doing it.
This was also during the period when Nancy Pelosi famously said,”We have to pass it to find out what’s in it.”
The link was deleted after about a week. Probably overloaded by thousands of faithful Dems snitching people out.