DEAR MR. SECURITY AGENT: WHEN IT COMES TO GUN CONFISCATION…

Dear Mr. Security Agent…

Federal, state, or local. You, the man or woman with the badge, the sworn LEO or FLEA and those who inhabit the many law enforcement niches in between and on all sides. This essay is directed to you, because in the end, how this turmoil about gun control turns out will depend largely upon your decisions and actions over the coming months and years.

Why is this essay titled Dear Mr. Security Agent, when it dwells mainly upon the media and coastal-dwelling urban liberals and their Utopian belief in the benefits of new gun control laws in the United States? Mr. Security Agent will protest that he is no liberal, he is ex-military, he’s a cop, he’s a fed—he’s one of the good guys! He took the same oath to defend the Constitution that you did, Buster! He doesn’t need any lectures on defending the Constitution! So why single him out in this essay?

Why? Because liberal bliss-ninnies in San Francisco and Boston are not issued flash-bang grenades, battering rams, body armor, flex-cuffs by the gross, and MP-5 submachine guns. No, the dirty end of the confiscation job will fall upon the shoulders of sworn law enforcement officers and gold-badged federal law enforcement agents. The LEOs and the FLEAs. That’s you, Mr. Security Agent.

We really don’t want a problem with you, believe me. And there is no reason for us to have a problem, because we both can read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and neither of us requires a team of black-robed mystics to translate its plain English into Newspeak for improved comprehension. You and I both understand what “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” means, without requiring five out of nine politically appointed Supremes to tell us that it does not mean what it very plainly states in black and white.

Now, as long as Mr. Security Agent remembers that he swore the same oath that millions of Americans swore, to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, he will certainly not permit himself to take part in gun confiscation raids. But if he does, well, let’s be frank: tens of millions of Americans would then consider him to be the very domestic enemy that they swore to defend the Constitution against.

But Mr. Bracken—I can hear it now—this is the United States of America! Abuses like the ones you hypothesize simply cannot happen here. Gun registration does not always lead to confiscation, much less to extermination. We are not Germany or Russia or any of those other countries you mentioned. https://www.americanpartisan.org/2019/08/so-whats-the-matter-with-universal-gun-registration/ This is the 21st Century. America is different, and it can’t happen here. You must lay your irrational fears aside and place your trust in your government. It cannot, it will not, ever turn in the dark and tyrannical direction that you imagine.

Oh, really? Google “wrong-address SWAT raids” and read any of the dozens of articles you will find. We should trust the government not to abuse us even further, once we are disarmed and helpless to resist them? Thanks, but I don’t think so.

In 2002, in Enemies Foreign and Domestic, I wrote a fictional account of future government agents waterboarding American “detainees” in a clandestine “interrogation center.” [A long excerpt can be read here: https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/books_efad.html ] In 2013, (and now 2019), I think that we are many steps closer to that reality. Today, we already see genital groping by federal agents and at least one Texas state trooper who was caught on film. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/troopers-texas-probe-genitals-women-traffic-stops-article-1.1414668

We have recently learned, Mr. Security Agent, that your law enforcement comrades can read every email we send or receive with no need for a pesky and outdated warrant. Today, our cell phones come complete with undisclosed “back doors” for law enforcement use, allowing them even to be switched on remotely, to serve as no less than a secret police microphone in our very own pockets.

Next year there will be drones patrolling the skies above America, keeping a watchful “Gorgon Stare” (Google it) mega-eye out for our “public safety.” Please read “The Coming Drone Attack on America,” by Naomi Wolf, to understand the grim implications of this development for what remains of American freedom. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/coming-drone-attack-america

Facial recognition cameras are going up everywhere. Nearly all public and corporate video camera networks have their feeds directed to dozens of new law enforcement “fusion centers,” whose very existence is kept secret from the American people they were supposedly built to protect. (Google “fusion centers” as well. Discover more news that the liberal mainstream media don’t think you need to know.) Data-mining and Social Network Analysis by our “protectors” edges steadily toward the “Department of Pre-Crime” foreseen in the science fiction movie Minority Report.

Next, project a decade ahead to what may be considered routine law enforcement behavior, after millions of Americans refuse to comply with new firearms registration and confiscation laws. Action will beget reaction. SWAT raids will spur armed resistance, which will spur “death squad” reprisals by “off-duty” agents, exactly in the way I wrote in Enemies Foreign and Domestic. It is a natural, almost organic progression, once started—and it has started. Secret detention centers will proliferate like mushrooms in the night. The media will not report on them, even if screams are heard around the clock by neighbors. Particularly brave reporters who break the media silence to report on police abuses will disappear, or be found headless, as they are in Mexico today.

For that is what a modern “dirty civil war” looks like, in country after country, from continent to continent. If present trends continue, America is going to experience a very old witch’s brew on her home soil for the first time since the Civil War. This is my own very dark “vision of the future” (to quote the subtitle of Colonel Benson’s piece) if new and restrictive gun control laws are passed. [Read “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A Vision of the Future” https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-“vision”-of-the-future ]

So now we’re back to you, Mr. Security Agent, and your unique role in this high drama. Let me state this very clearly, both for you and for the liberal agenda-setting elites who might accidentally stumble upon this essay. Let there be no doubt about this. Let no one later say, “But we were just trying to improve public safety. We had no idea that all these disastrous unintended consequences would happen.”

I am telling you now that disastrous unintended consequences will happen if Congress passes new laws banning presently legal firearms. To make it very easy to remember, and in the spirit of our beloved Department of Homeland Security’s old color-coded security threat levels, let me spell out three lines of demarcation.

The Yellow Line:

The yellow warning line will be crossed with national gun registration laws, including laws forbidding private gun sales without government permission. When that law passes, millions of Americans will feel that they have been pushed directly to the edge of the abyss above the mass graves of history. Defenders of the Second Amendment know what happened in Turkey, the USSR, Germany, China, and other nations that fell under totalitarian rule: in every case a necessary preliminary step on the road to genocide was national gun registration, followed by confiscation. The Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust say, “Never again!” And so do we.

The Red Line:

The red line will be crossed with the passage of laws mandating that currently owned weapons, ammunition magazines, and ammunition quantities above a certain number must be turned in to authorities or destroyed, and thereafter their simple possession will be a felony. At that point, the nation will be on a hair trigger, with a thousand flaring matches nearing a thousand primed cannon fuses aimed directly at the next Fort Sumter.

The Dead Line:

The next line requires a bit of history to explain. In some primitive Civil War POW camps, where lack of funding or logistical constraints did not allow the construction of proper fences, a knee-high continuous railing of wooden slats encircled the prison grounds. Guards with rifles were positioned at the corners and in crude towers. If a prisoner so much as stepped over the narrow plank, he was shot dead without warning, obviating the need for a real fence to contain him. Hence the term “dead line.” Cross the line and people die, right now.

And this is what liberal Utopians must understand: after passing the yellow line with national gun registration and transfer requirements, and the red line by making possession of currently legal firearms felonious, the dead line will be breached with the first SWAT raids upon citizens suspected of owning legal firearms made illegal by the new gun control laws. People will die resisting confiscation, in large numbers.

Confiscation crosses the dead line, make no mistake about it.

So this essay is really for you, Mr. Security Agent, because it won’t be elite Manhattan or Malibu liberals or Ivy League professors or politicians or columnists who will be ordered to strap on the sweat-stained body armor and enforce the new gun control laws at gunpoint. No, that grim task will fall to you.

But as long as you are an honorable agent of the people while an employee of the government, and as long as you honor your oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, then you will encounter no problems at all with gun owners. Why? Because you will refuse to take part in gun confiscation raids. Period. End of sentence, end of paragraph.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the leading American law enforcement agency, at least in terms of its long history and high prestige. Dear Mr. Security Agent, please consider that F.B.I. also stands for Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. Soon, your fidelity to your solemnly sworn oath may be severely tested. It will take a lot of bravery to make your personal integrity a higher calling than following illegitimate orders, simply to maintain your steady paycheck and benefits.

On the other hand, if you no longer resemble the upstanding and honorable federal agents I have known in the past, if that whole oath-to-the-Constitution shtick was a big fat joke to you and you would accept a transfer to the old Soviet KGB or East German Stasi for a ten percent pay raise…then we are definitely going to have a problem. So that oath you swore really matters, one way or the other, and so does your personal sense of honor.

Dear Mr. Security Agent, let me spell it out. If you find yourself in the sub-basement of an annex to a secret intelligence center on the far end of town, waterboarding citizens into revealing the locations of suspected “illegal caches” of firearms, ammunition or ammunition magazines that were legally owned in 2019, then know this one simple fact: tens of millions of Americans will most surely consider you a betrayer of your sworn oath and a traitor to your country.

And so, if you find yourself silently dismounting a covert SWAT vehicle at zero-dark-thirty, dressed all in body armor, counting down to the time-coordinated explosion of battering rams and flash-bang grenades, on a raid against a sleeping household intended to result in the confiscation of firearms, ammunition or ammunition magazines that were legal to own in 2019, millions of Americans who also swore an oath to defend the Constitution will consider you their domestic enemy, and they will resist you with force of arms. Just as the soldiers of King George were resisted on another notable gun confiscation raid on April 19, 1775. It used to be called “The Shot Heard ’Round the World.”

You may consider the sentiments expressed above to be absurd, hyperbolic, dangerous, ridiculous, or simply wrong-headed. But please understand that tens of millions of Americans feel this way to their cores, and they will not be disarmed without a fight. Well-meaning but naive liberals should understand the certain-to-follow consequences of new gun control laws intended to disarm their fellow citizens in the name of “public safety.” LEOs and FLEAs should understand the dire consequences of participating in gun confiscation raids, in direct violation of their sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution, including the Second Amendment.

The unintended consequences of this misguided utopian fool’s crusade to ban guns would include a second civil war as agonizingly painful as the first one, if not more so, since there would be no front lines and no safe areas for anybody, anywhere. Every sane American wants to prevent such a calamitous outcome as a “dirty civil war” on United States soil.

But know this: those tens of millions will never be quietly disarmed and then later forced at government gunpoint onto history’s next boxcars. If boxcars and detention camps are to be in America’s future, then you, Mr. Security Agent, will have to disarm us the hard way first. Not Piers Morgan, not Michael Moore, not Rosie O’Donnell, not Dianne Feinstein, not Chuck Schumer.

You.

The above was taken from the complete Dear Mr. Security Agent, which was originally published at Western Rifle Shooters Association in 2013.

https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/

Another section of the complete DMSA was recently published in American Partisan as “SO WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH UNIVERSAL GUN REGISTRATION?”

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22 Comments

  1. enn ess September 5, 2019 at 13:15

    Lexington Green revisited – Prepare for 1776 – part 2 – B wary – B cautious – B ready. Vote and remove every single incumbent presently in office, they are NOT on the side of Liberty and freedom….

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  3. Thomas September 5, 2019 at 13:59

    All of the principles upon which this country has operated have been co-opted by people who wish to impose their own set of rules and justice. Today, foreign Muslims can get an American judge to protect their rights to travel to this country, yet a law abiding gun owner will find that he has no rights to due process of law if an arbitrary and capricious agency acts on a maliciously intended tip to law enforcement.

    Thrasymachus was right in postulating that justice is whatever the advantaged (stronger) group decides; and they became strong through illegal immigration. So with that knowledge we prepare to deal with the situation by counter force. I see no other way.

  4. Pastor Mike September 5, 2019 at 16:16

    It’s the Left that as usual wants to see blood run in the streets , it doesn’t matter ” WHO’s BLOOD ” , ” WHAT GROUPS BLOOD “, SO LONG AS IT’S BLOOD !!
    The Left has always had a Death Cult like fascination with blood , just look at all of the murdered unborn , and sometimes even live birth ones that they murdered and that have been well documented in doing so . Not to even mention all of the MILLIONS who have died at the hands of SOCIALIST/FASCIST /MARXIST/COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS ever since their blood lust demented wet dream first took off with sociopaths and psychopaths world wide .

    As for any of their minions who enjoy a well paying job with plenty of benefits all supplied by the general PUBLIC ; not by a POLITICIAN who will be recalled , voted out , or ……… , who decided that THEY knew better and had MORE power then the people who put them in their respective position.
    Those minions will ALWAYS be remembered , THEY make their respective families targets , THEY will have no real friends who will have their backs except for other minions , until they are eventually deemed disposable by their higher up party members. Either way it will be the minions who will take the brunt of the backlash in a real world sense rather then the political weasel who put them into those positions in the first place.

    All for a job….

    Hope it was worth it …… while it lasted.

  5. Matt in Oklahoma September 5, 2019 at 18:24

    Ahhh who doesn’t realize it will take many more than just the handful of Feds to accomplish this?
    You think the laws on the military operating in conus are going to hold any more than the 2A!?!
    Some of the “special” units seem to have already forgotten it. Pretty sure you should know bout that.
    There will be plenty of new “agencies or units” to handle the new tasking. Best part is The People will ask for it.
    Been hearing this same song and dance since the early 80s. Been hearing the same song and dance about what they gonna do if this or that happens from the militia, 3%er, western shooters, “patriots” and a dozen other organizations but ain’t seen nothing yet. Everyone thinks they are the good guys.
    Heard it all again in the 90s with Brady. I not only got my weapons still I got even better.
    How is that?
    BTW pulled 20 with the military and coming in on 20 with the feds. Used to do street cop as a reserve when stationed conus. Been a part of what some consider “the other side” too. It’s not that there isn’t a danger but both sides lie and hype.
    Protect all your rights. Be wary of agendas. Trust No One.

  6. Jim Wiseman September 5, 2019 at 22:11

    What does James Comey’s oath mean to him?

  7. Bear September 6, 2019 at 17:16

    Civil war? After a general line is crossed? Sorry; Bracken’s an optimist.

    It won’t be that pretty.

    https://bearbussjaeger.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/remedial-practical-civics-100-lesson-4-a-hunting-we-will-go/

  8. […] Why? Because liberal bliss-ninnies in San Francisco and Boston are not issued flash-bang grenades, battering rams, body armor, flex-cuffs by the gross, and MP-5 submachine guns. No, the dirty end of the confiscation job will fall upon the shoulders of sworn law enforcement officers and gold-badged federal law enforcement agents. The LEOs and the FLEAs. That’s you, Mr. Security Agent.MORE […]

  9. Anonymous September 6, 2019 at 17:44

    4.5

  10. Ben Leucking September 6, 2019 at 18:59

    Terrific article. My only challenge is where Mr. Bracken draws his lines. For me, his Yellow Line is my RED Line, the point at which serious resistance by Americans becomes necessary if we are to preserve the principals upon which our country was founded. We now have democrat presidential candidates openly calling for gun confiscation. It doesn’t matter whether you consider O’Rourke, Biden, Booker or any of the other candidates to be flaming idiots. The point is that, regarding gun control, they have very serious intentions. There are no mulligans in this game.

  11. Anonymous September 6, 2019 at 20:21

    5

  12. Steady Steve September 6, 2019 at 21:01

    I’d put it more directly. If gun confiscation occurs, at any level, all LEO’s/FLEA’s will be shot on sight. And we will burn down your houses leaving your families homeless. Likewise for any civilian employees of your organization and local politicians that support this.

  13. A Texan September 7, 2019 at 01:35

    Dear Mr.Security Agent,

    I am Jewish with my father side of the family having come from Russia and my mother side from Poland.

    My paternal grandfather was born in czarist Russia, and was a young teen when World War I broke out. His father had been a very hard-working and enterprising man, and had built a business that employed 50 men, plus had built 14 houses to rent out. After the war, of course, communism came to Russia. The communists took everything that my great grandparents owned, and my grandfather had to leave because he was going to be killed by the Reds. He never saw his parents again, and only saw some of his siblings for a week or so when they were all old. Later, when my great grandfather was old and sick with cancer, he could not work to put food on the table. He had no income producing assets, because they had all been taken. The only thing that he had was his own home, which he rented out to three other families. Evidently, Stalin and his NKVD goons took a dim view of that sort of activity, and he was dragged away to prison, beaten mercilessly and released to die at home. Oh, yes, I almost forgot: Soviet Russia had incredibly strict gun control, and most definitely had its own equivalent of a universal background check.

    My mothers side of the family was not victimized by Russian leftists, but instead by German leftists otherwise known as Nazis. All of Europe had very strict gun control and their own versions of a universal background check, too, and when the Germans came to Poland they took away dozens of members of my mothers family; those who were not put to work constructing concentration camps under incredibly harsh conditions (and later starved to death or shot) were simply executed out of hand.

    The common thread here is that these members of my family who were so horribly victimized within the last 100 years in countries that were supposedly civilized, did not possess the right to defend themselves or the means to do so. In other words, Mr. Security Agent, they couldn’t tell people like you, “No!” So they were all oppressed and/or murdered for free. I, however, live in a country where the founders understood that the key to a successful society was one where the government protected individuals rights. I have taken advantage of many of those rights, particularly including the rights enshrined and protected by the Second Amendment. I can assure all of you reading this that if the power of a leftist dominated government comes to bear against me and my family that I understand that we might not survive… but whatever is done to us will not be for free, not THIS time.

    All of you governmental police officers and agents had better understand that I am extremely far from alone. My own family history is unique, of course, but millions here understand what freedom and liberty mean, and how they must be defended or they will disappear – and we are unwilling to bequeath a world like that to our children and grandchildren. Be aware of that when you are given unlawful orders to deprive citizens of their most basic right.

    None of what I have stated above should be taken as a threat. I am an extremely peaceful person, and I relish and cherish the peaceful life that I have had, and I wish to not only live the rest of my life in such a degree of peace, but I wish the same for everyone that I know. However, what was stated above is factual, whether it is past facts that have actually occurred, or whether it is statements about one possible future. My point in writing this is absolutely identical to Mr. Bracken’s intention in writing the subject article, that is to say it is to try to eliminate the future where you disobey your oath to the Constitution and you help power-hungry people with no decency or conscience to make this country into a tyranny. Please listen to what is being told to you, and take it to heart. Don’t become modern Redcoats, that didn’t work out too well the last time around.

  14. James September 7, 2019 at 21:03

    See you all on the other side hopefully/laughing that things have turned out alright.

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  16. Matt in Oklahoma September 11, 2019 at 14:14

    I get what everyone is saying and I know your fired up but just like the bumpstocks ….
    I watched videos and read all the gunsites where the youtubers and gun writers and 2A crowd were instructing folks on how the best way to take them in, fill out this form and that so when they won the lawsuit they could get them back………..
    Make sure you vote for this guy and pay your dues to these folks………..
    It wasn’t “The Security Agent” with flashbangs and balaclava that got everyone now was it?
    Some folks need to turn that finger back 180.

  17. DrDog September 11, 2019 at 21:02

    Black will be the new Red….. as the first agent thru the door bleeds out.

  18. Paul Bonneau September 12, 2019 at 09:47

    The problem is even worse. Every police department will already have bastards willing to confiscate guns. There will be no way for resisters to separate good cops from bad cops. When the raids start, all cops will be walking around with targets on their backs, not just the bad ones. It may be time to find another line of work.

  19. jbbigf September 13, 2019 at 14:04

    I will just point out, that many of the people promoting confiscation are well aware that it will lead to deadly confrontations between gun owners and LEOs, and it won’t just be the gun owners who get killed. They are OK with that. Blue lives don’t matter to them.

  20. Leonard September 14, 2019 at 02:16

    We’ve learned F.B.I. actually stands for Feral Beasts of Iniquity (look those words up in a good dictionary). As to gun “confiscation”, most will surrender their guns & ammo for food & water when only the government has food & water. It takes a minimum of 5% of a determined adult population to resist totalitarianism. America is perilously close to dropping below that point. Personally, I do not expect the 2nd amendment to be of much use simply because, whatever man can do, other men can undo. Therefore, I rely upon Luke 22:36… clearly a “Higher” authority!

  21. COMMUTATUS October 30, 2019 at 14:47

    Matt, you can only speak for yourself not “millions of gun owners”. I doubt to the deepest parts of my soul that
    this fictional uprising will ever occur on any basis resembling an organized armed resistance. Americans don’t know what suffering such an act will cause them. They have nothing to compare it to.. My father and maybe yours or your grandfather knew hunger up close and personal. They did without many of the little things that we waste on a daily basis.
    Americans in general are grass fed herbivores. Twenty four hours without electricity would send most to the first shelter available. Maybe some would make it 3-5 days and then, that’s it. Their done. The gubment has made absolutely sure of the “continuation of government” not the salvation of the citizenry. It is no secret.
    A man with small children and a young wife and a job and a mortgage, etc. Is not wholly likely to jeopardize that stake in life. For decades the “get out and vote” bunch have lured Americans into a futile exercise designed in totality to make one believe they really have a choice….You don’t. Tell me how much things have improved since say, 1934? Or maybe 1950? Our money is more worthless with nothing to bind it down. One word from the money masters and your dollars are truly worthless.
    It’s all about the willingness to lay it all on the line and with that, endure unto death the suffering that will surely follow. Our Founders would have been in the fields long ago. What was it that Mel Gibson said in THE PATRIOT? “….Granted, but mark my words: this war will not be fought on the frontier or on some distant battlefield, but amongst us, among our homes. Our children will learn of it with their own eyes and the innocent will die with the rest of us.”…..

    Are you that willing, Mr Bracken? Will you sacrifice your children’s lives on that vaunted “altar of freedom”?
    Maybe, you will see that day. But I doubt I will.

  22. Les November 10, 2019 at 15:29

    Doesn’t “Mr. Security Agent” and his family live in the same neighborhoods as those he would conceivably be victimizing? Wow, I bet that could get dicey. Same goes for all the other local ‘officials’ directing the victimization.
    If its one thing I have learned over my journey its that achieving success requires both resources and organization. A bit of skullduggery helps, to.

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