WASHINGTON TIMES (OPINION): Will Section 702 become a backdoor gun registry?

Bob Goodlatte, our senior policy analyst, who also represented Virginia’s 6th District in Congress and chaired the House Judiciary Committee, published an op-ed in the Washington Times. 

The debate over the FISA Section 702 surveillance authority is often framed as a clash between national security and privacy. But that framing is flawed – and dangerously so.

What Congress now faces is not just a Fourth Amendment question. It is a test of whether warrantless surveillance powers could quietly erode gun rights.
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A “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 – one that excludes meaningful reforms – is an implicit threat to the Second Amendment.

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