“[The Missouri] Department of Revenue [DoR] is working with the Department of Homeland Security to install new hard and software to obtain data on Missouri citizens and transfer this information to DHS and unnamed third parties.” Well they were until Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder filed a Temporary Restraining Order against the DoR. [Press release after the jump] The move follows a complaint from Show Me State resident Eric Griffin. When Griffin went to renew his Concealed Carry Weapons permit, the Department of Revenue [DoR] refused to issue same unless he surrendered ID documents for their records. Griffin brought his complaint to Kinder. It’s possible the practice is repeated in other states, as part of the Real ID law. Let us know if you’ve bumped-up against and we’ll keep you posted . . .
Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder backs fee office
lawsuit in Stoddard County
Legal action taken against fee offices over privacy concerns
JEFFERSON CITY – Lt. Governor Peter Kinder today hosted a press conference in the Capitol to announce a lawsuit filed over the collection and scanning of private documents by the Missouri Department of Revenue for residents seeking concealed carry gun permits.
The lawsuit was filed Monday by Russ Oliver in Stoddard County. Oliver is Stoddard County’s prosecuting attorney. He filed the lawsuit as a private attorney on behalf of Eric Griffin.
“I fully support Mr. Oliver in this important legal action in Stoddard County Circuit Court,” Kinder said. “This case has issues of statewide importance implicating serious privacy concerns for law-abiding citizens. These folks have followed the letter of the law and been approved for concealed carry by the proper authorities. They must not be required to share that information with any third parties or the federal government.”
Oliver said Mr. Griffin went to his local Department of Motor Vehicles fee office after passing the application process for a concealed carry gun permit. When he refused to let DMV employees scan some of his documentation, he was denied the permit.
Oliver said Griffin acted within his rights. He said the Department of Revenue apparently installed new computer equipment to record the information as part of the federal Real ID Act of 2005.
But state laws prohibit the department from retaining and collecting these types of documents and from complying with that portion of the Real ID Act. The data the DOR collected was being forwarded to Morpho Trust U.S.A., a Georgia company that specializes in partnering with state and federal governmental agencies.
“There are important privacy concerns for concealed carry holders who justly fear their information being sent to a third party or the federal government,” Oliver said. “Missouri law makes it clear that what is going on here is illegal, and serves no legitimate purpose since the county sheriff is solely charged with the duty of determining applicants’ eligibility for the endorsement.”
The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to stop the Department of Revenue from collecting and sharing the private data and declare their actions unlawful.
Colorado, quit crying and quit screwing around. Start recalling your Governor.
people need to stop spending $$ there as well. no more skiing or tours or visits. CO needs to be boycotted. I alreay don’t spend $$ in IL or NY or CA so easy enough to add them to the list.
If I had the capital and know-how I would open an oil refinery and an ammunition factory. Actually, uncertainty as to the long-term plans of the government would probably keep me from making that huge investment.
Hmm, I suppose that could also be the case for those who actually have the capital…
200 votes versus millions of liberal sycophants in Denver. Safe to say Hickenbockers done the math on this issue. Behold the tyranny of the majority, sane as that long ago confronted by Socrates.
Speaking of history, here’s the ONLY ‘politician’ who would dare promote AR15, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before it were ever acceptable to the NRA & Sturm Ruger, or “tacticool,” or “evil.”
Ron Paul holding an AR15… in a 1989 TV ad!!!!
Ron Paul 2nd Amendment 1989 [Rare]
This is from the famed U of Chicago ‘freemarket’ economist Milton Friedman’s foundation & their “Free to Choose” series.
Since an AK (or multiple AK’s) was used at the 1989 “Stockton Schoolyard Massacre”/Cleveland School Massacre, not sure if this ad was a direct response to shooting’s aftermath and the Commufornia’s usual liberal/RINO pussies and the predictable MSM vilification of all “black rifles” and the pseudo neologism “assault weapons” in general, but the Ad’s from the same year.
One of the best way to judge how effective an Pro-Gun Rights group is… is to listen to the Ant-Gun groups talk. Who do they hate the most?
Who does Obama hate ? The NRA
Who does Finestein Hate? The NRA
Who does Schumer Hate? The NRA
Who does Bloomberg Hate? The NRA
There is 4 good reasons right there to support the NRA.
There are all too few sparks of sanity in this sea of delusion and dishonesty.
Weep indeed.