Rocker Ted Nugent called out the Biden administration Friday over its alleged targeting of “MAGA” and sporting goods-related consumer transactions, saying the left is “engineering recidivism” by ignoring actual gun crimes while putting the screws to law-abiding sportsmen.
Nugent’s comments come weeks after Republicans, led by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. who wrote a critical letter to Yellen and her financial crime enforcement division director, called out Treasury’s suggestion in 2021 that banks track search terms like “MAGA” and “Trump” and purchases at Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops.
“Well, you know jack-booted thuggery can come in the form of high-tech, and these oath-violators continue to turn this once great country into an evil empire,” Nugent said, after Yellen bluntly told a FOX Business reporter she wouldn’t accept her questions on the matter but instead offered to pose for a picture with others in the scrum.
“This is an issue that Americans are worried about,” correspondent Hillary Vaughn told Yellen as she walked through a Washington hallway, adding Americans are concerned they are being targeted due to their religious beliefs, candidates they vote for or stores they patronize.
He said the left’s continued efforts to enact stricter laws affecting sportsmen and gun owners is denying people their right to defend themselves.
“It’s so obvious that it’s just another criminal outrage by this government that is totally out of control.”
In the latest litigation involving the Second Amendment, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled the state’s “Spirit of Aloha” supersedes certain rights within the Second Amendment. Justice Todd Eddins wrote that one such affected area is the open-carrying of firearms in public.
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