What's Next - Holster Surveillance?
Dept. Commerce Census Bureau Requesting Sales
Records From Gun Holster Companies?
JM4 Tactical Gun Holster
By John Crump. July 15, 2022
Why would the Census Bureau request customer records from American gun holster companies?
That is the question AmmoLand News is asking. Several major holster manufacturers/providers received notices from the Department of Commerce Census Bureau requesting order numbers, product descriptions, and where the items were being shipped. A few holster companies have refused to turn over the requested information to the federal government.
Two of these companies that received the letters and refused are JM4 Tactical and On Your Six Holsters.
"We will never turn over any information on our customers to the government no matter the cost us," Chad Myers, President of JM4 Tactical, said. "To do so would violate our core beliefs. We need to stand up to an overbearing government. Our customers can rest assured that their information is safe with us!"
The Census Bureau sends out the Commodity Flow Survey to random companies every year. The purpose of the survey is to help the federal government understand the flow of commerce to help shape policies regarding transportation and shipping. This year it seems an abnormal amount of holster companies have received the notice leading some of the holster companies to wonder if the federal government has targeted them.
Some companies reached out to Arbiter Weston Martinez of Texas for help. Mr. Martinez is the former Texas Real Estate Commissioner under former Governor Rick Perry. Mr. Martinez is well connected in the political sphere and believes that the companies are being targeted to gather intel on the gun market. He has vowed to help push back against the alleged government overreach.
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It is difficult to see a process such as this being entirely innocent, although accusations of 'conspiracy theory' may well be rife from some quarters. However, there is little doubt that with the admin's hatred for anything to do with gun ownership that perhaps could add some credence to a 'surveillance' theory!
