Feds Demand Apple, Google Hand Over Names Who Downloaded Gun App

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File

The Constitution of the United States exists because our Founding Fathers didn’t really trust government all that much. They understood that governments are a necessary evil, that people need governance, but that there was a very real risk of governmental power being used to oppress people. They knew it quite well. They’d just overthrown the government of the colonies and won their independence.

So they created a framework where the government could do what it absolutely needed to do but would ultimately be kept in check so it couldn’t run rampant over the American populace.

At least in theory.

However, the latest move by the government of the United States is something that will have those Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves over.

Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The U.S. government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you.

That’s because the government wants Apple and Google to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun scope app, Forbes has discovered. It’s an unprecedented move: Never before has a case been disclosed in which American investigators demanded …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms