Second Amendment Group Rallies Members Against McCarthy’s First Gun Bill Aimed at Illegal Immigrants

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has a gun bill planned for a vote soon that is aimed at rounding up illegal immigrants through the federal gun background check system. The bill would utilize the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System to attempt to find people who are in the United States illegally.
However, the Second Amendment advocacy group Gun Owners of America (GOA) alerted its members about legislation, warning that it would empower the FBI to target and conduct warrantless surveillance of law-abiding gun owners.
“I could think of a thousand ways to target illegal aliens without harassing law-abiding gun owners named Rodriguez,” GOA’s attorney Rob Olson told The Epoch Times in an interview….}

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