WHEREAS: Flock Safety operates a nationwide network of more than 100,000 automated cameras, by the company’s own count, photographing every vehicle that passes – no warrant, no suspicion of a crime, no consent; and

WHEREAS: Flock’s own “Vehicle Fingerprint” technology is built to catalog bumper stickers and decals alongside plate, time, and location – meaning a Gadsden flag, a 2A sticker, or an NAGR decal becomes a permanent, searchable data point tied to that vehicle and its owner; and

WHEREAS: Roughly 5,000 law enforcement agencies share into this national pool, meaning an officer anywhere in America can search for every truck that visited a gun store, a gun range, or a gun show – with nothing more than a few words typed into a reason box; and

WHEREAS: Officers have already been caught abusing this exact technology to stalk private citizens they knew personally – in Wisconsin, in Alabama, and elsewhere – proving the “safeguards” the industry promises are worth nothing once the system exists; and

WHEREAS: The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled, in Carpenter v. United States, that comprehensive government tracking of a person’s movements requires a warrant – and this same network is now being challenged directly in federal court; and

WHEREAS: Rep. Tim Burchett’s Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act (H.R. 9800) would ban federal agencies from buying, deploying, or accessing this technology, and requires deletion of any data collected in violation – but needs public pressure to move past committee;

THEREFORE: As a law-abiding American and Second Amendment supporter, I urge Congress to pass H.R. 9800 and enact a full federal ban on warrantless AI vehicle surveillance networks that catalog the movements, associations, and constitutionally protected activities of American gun owners.