By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is illegally stockpiling vast amounts of data about gun owners, according to an audit by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

GAO in a report earlier this month announced that the ATF violated both federal law and its own policies by not deleting Federal Firearms License [FFL] information on two data systems, thus not complying with “the appropriations act restriction prohibiting consolidation or centralization of FFL records.” An FFL is a firearm retailer.

The information was found during an audit.

FoxNews personality Andrew Napolitano, a former judge on the New Jersey superior court, said that when passing the law more than a decade ago, Congress was concerned about an “anti-gun president.”

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