FIB & Secret Service Behind Covert Agreement Stripping Citizens' Gun Rights

"American tradition holds that our creator endows our citizens with certain unalienable rights," Steve Friend, a former FBI special agent who was put on leave in August 2022 after taking issue with the bureau's Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigations, told the Washington Examiner. "Government is instituted to protect these rights. The FBI and Secret Service have bastardized the social compact to achieve the opposite."

"These actions to deny Americans Second Amendment rights are wholly unconstitutional and illegal," added Friend, now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank.

It remains unclear why the FBI or Secret Service were involved in the 2019 case, which was first revealed by the Washington Examiner on March 17. It's also unclear why the form was used, which registered people into the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System and asked signatories to identify as a "danger" to themselves or others or lacking the "mental capacity adequately to contract" their lives.

Kyle Seraphin, an FBI whistleblower and agent until April 2022 who notably leaked information related to the Justice Department taking aim at parents on school boards, said the bureau's internal form usage is an example of it going "rogue."