Because the statutorily mandated 20-business day Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request response time has passed with no acknowledgment, a lawsuit was entered against the Department of Justice Friday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint was filed by attorney Stephen D. Stamboulieh on behalf of this correspondent to compel the Department to produce information regarding “consent to a permanent entry in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).”
The purpose of the FOIA request, as elaborated in an August 1 AmmoLand Shooting Sports News exclusive report, was to follow up on information documented in the disallowed Hunter Biden plea deal, in which one of the conditions listed on page 85 of the hearing transcript states:
“Paragraph 9 and its subparagraph are the commitments and undertakings of Biden and that includes not purchasing, possessing, attempting to purchase firearms as that term is defined in the relevant statute during the diversion period, consent to a permanent entry in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System such that he will be denied via NICS if he attempts to legally purchase another firearm.”
The government has no statutory authority to require this.
“The list of prohibited persons [is] established by Congress,” Gun Owners of America noted in a September 2022 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding a Bureau-created NICS Indices Self-Submission form:
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