Highway Patrol Gave Feds List Of Concealed Carry Gun Permit Holders

by Tim Brown

In what is clearly a “No, no,” it was revealed that the Missouri State Highway Patrol turned over concealed carry data to federal authorities. The information was passed on as the feds investigated Social Security disability fraud. This happened on at least two occasions, the latest occurring in January. An investigation into the matter in now unfolding.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports,

Missouri State Highway Patrol Col. Ron Replogle was questioned for nearly an hour this morning by the Senate Appropriations Committee after he revealed to Chairman Kurt Schaefer yesterday that his agency had turned over the data.

The delivery of the information to federal authorities has become a huge issue for lawmakers since they began raising questions about new driver’s licensing procedures. A lawsuit from Stoddard County challenged the procedures that require all supporting documents — including certificates granting concealed weapon privileges — to be scanned and retained.

In November 2011 and again in January, Replogle said, an agent of the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General received discs with the data. Each time, the agent was unable to read the encryption format and destroyed the discs, Replogle said.

“They said no names were retrieved,” Replogle told the committee this morning. “They do not have those names. They did not disseminate that information, and all that information has been destroyed. We have asked for that documentation of what has happened.”

Replogle claims that he didn’t know this had taken place until four weeks ago and that the data was turned over due to the fact that the Office of Inspector General, the agency that claimed the alleged investigation, is a law enforcement agency. The claim was made that this was simply cross checking names on the CCP list with the feds’ list of individuals with disabilities attributed to mental illness in order to find fraud.

The revelation has outraged citizens and frustrated lawmakers. However, Andrea Spillars, deputy director of the Department of Public Safety, explained that she though the highway patrol’s disclosure was not only legal, but could but also said it could happen again!

“Under state statutes the legislature passed, it is a lawful, permissible disclosure,” she said. However, Missouri State Law mandates that concealed weapons permit data is confidential. Missouri also has law in place that bars the Department of Revenue from implementing the federal Real ID Act. However, the only place where owners’ identities are stored is in driver license records. Unfortunately licenses bear a special mark that designates that person is also a concealed weapons permit holder.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon denies that the information was turned over to a “magical database” for federal agents.

Republican State Sen. Kurt Schaefer said, “Apparently from what I understand, they wanted to match up anyone who had a mental diagnosis or disability with also having a concealed carry license. What I am told is there is no written request for that information.”

Schaefer is in the midst of the controversy and warned about Real ID saying, “There is nothing magical about the name Real ID. It is the things that go along with it, the giving up of personal data, the subjecting yourself to identity theft without any due process of law before that information is given up.”

He also said the department has denied they were implementing Real ID or turning over concealed weapons permit holder’s information for weeks.

“What we now know is we were lied to about the process, how it is implemented, how it is funded, and we were lied to about the fact that the Department of Motor Vehicles or the state of Missouri did or did not give out a list of concealed carry holders to the federal government,” Schaefer said.

Schaefer wants to know how the list request was granted and where it eventually ended up when it was turned over to the feds. I can think of a couple of places it would have ended up, probably ATF or the Justice Department.

“I want to know who all was involved in this transaction because if this is just some phone call saying give me the list of all concealed carry holders, how did the person at the patrol who fulfilled that request know who was at the other end of the phone?,” he asked. “How did they know where to send it? How did they know what it was being used for?”

It’s quite telling that what was allegedly an investigation into Social Security fraud, became a search for people with mental health issues that also had concealed weapons permits. I’d say it’s not a coincidence, especially in light of the rhetoric coming from Washington and the recent overreach of the New York State Police. The officers who turned the list over need to be found out and relieved of their duties. No doubt, they have broken the public’s trust.

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Several days ago we wrote about what we defined as the Fed’s “D-Rate” – the interest rate at which the cash outflows from payments by the Fed on its Excess Reserves will surpass that cash inflows from its asset holdings, a very troubling day because as we further explained, from that point on the Fed would be “printing money just to print money.” In other words, with every passing day, the Fed is getting ever closer to the point where the inflation it so very much wishes to unleash will force it to essentially request a technical bailout from Congress (and certainly will halt all future interest remittances to the Treasury), and the longer this takes, the lower the breakeven interest rate becomes, until one day it is so low the tiniest rise in rates will immediately put the Fed into the red. It now appears that Congress itself, the ultimate beneficiary of the Fed’s free money policy as nearly half of all US spending is funded by the Fed’s monetization of the deficit at ultra low rates, is finally catching on to what is the ultimate rock and hard place for Ben Bernanke. In a letter penned by the Chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, Jim Jordan, says that he is “troubled by the corresponding effect that the Federal Reserve’s expanding portfolio could have on current and future economic growth” and has asked the Fed what its “future plans to unwind the [$ 3 trillion and rising at $ 885 billion per month] portfolio” are.

What is surprising that Jordan actually gets it:

I am especially concerned that the historically low interest rates brought on by the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy have hampered economic growth by distorting traditional financial incentives.

It gets better:

Younger Americans who have been working to save their income have faced meager returns in bank accounts and larger balance requirements, slowing their overall accumulation of wealth.’ Likewise, older Americans living off of interest-bearing accounts have been forced to move to riskier investments to maintain their standards of living.

And best:

Most strikingly, by maintaining low interest rates, the Federal Reserve has distorted the real cost of the national debt, effectively “incentiviz[ing] the U.S. government to borrow and overspend.”

Jordan is not happy:

The Committee has previously written to you with concerns about monetary policy in the United States. In July 2011, after a meeting between Committee staff and Federal Reserve staff, the Committee requested that you provide all Federal Reserve studies used to determine the value of Federal Reserve assets and “what the potential losses would be based on different unwind scenarios regarding the Federal Reserve’s portfolio…” The Committee also requested that you provide “all estimates and analysis of the potential costs of payment of interest on reserves” that would incentivize banks to maintain excess reserves. In response, you provided only publicly released studies, and you did not provide any precise estimates of the future cost of reserve interest rate payments

As a result…

I respectfully request the following information for the period November 25, 2008 — present:

1. All public and non-public studies, estimates, analysis, and evaluations of the value of the Federal Reserve’s assets and any potential losses associated with future unwind scenarios commissioned or undertaken by any employee, agent, or contractor of the Federal Reserve;
2. All public and non-public studies, estimates, analysis, and evaluations of the potential costs of payments of interest on reserves sufficient to prevent inflation associated with future unwind scenarios commissioned or undertaken by any employee, agent, or contractor of the Federal Reserve;
3. All documents and communications between or among employees, contractors, or agents of the Federal Reserve System and employees of the Treasury Department or the Executive Office of the President referring or relating to the value of the Federal Reserve’s assets and any potential losses associated with future unwind scenarios;
4. All documents and communications between or among employees, contractors, or agents of the Federal Reserve System and employees of the Treasury Department or the Executive Office of the President referring or relating to the Federal Reserve’s cost of payment of interest on reserves

Well, better late than never. However, we are confident that Jordan will be unhappy with the response whose advance preview we provide below:

Dear Jim,

 

Please accept this first completely blank napkin as evidence of all the rigorous analysis the Fed has conducted on all the issues you bring up. Also, on the second completely blank napkin we would have written the date on which we expect to begin unwinding the Fed’s balance sheet.

 

Peace out,

 

Chairsatan Ben

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