We the People call on Congress to repeal the Tiahrt Amendments and restore transparency, accountability, and public oversight to the federal firearms system — and to close the loopholes that allow illegal gun markets to thrive without infringing on the Second Amendment rights of law‑abiding Americans.

For decades, federal agencies have documented the same structural failures: the same diversion channels, the same trafficking indicators, the same interstate routes, the same dealers whose guns repeatedly end up in crimes. Yet the laws governing these systems have remained frozen in place. The public has been denied the information required to understand the problem, and the institutions responsible for oversight have been denied the authority required to fix it.

The result is a system designed to keep the public blind.

Illegal gun markets do not thrive because of individual irresponsibility. They thrive because federal law restricts transparency, limits oversight, fragments data, and prevents agencies from acting on the patterns they themselves document. These loopholes do not protect lawful gun owners. They protect the small number of dealers, traffickers, and networks that exploit the system’s blind spots.

Closing these loopholes does not restrict personal gun ownership. It does not affect responsible gun owners. It does not infringe on the Second Amendment. These reforms target trafficking, diversion, theft, dealer misconduct, and systemic failures — not individual rights.

We the People call on Congress to enact the following reforms:

1. Repeal the Tiahrt Amendments in full to restore transparency, allow ATF to release dealer‑level trace data, and permit aggregate analysis of trafficking patterns.
2. Require annual inspections for high‑volume gun dealers and biennial inspections for all others, ensuring diversion is detected before guns enter illegal markets.
3. Establish federal security and loss‑prevention standards for gun stores, distributors, and common carriers, including chain‑of‑custody requirements and immediate reporting of theft or loss.
4. Authorize ATF to integrate its data systems — tracing, NIBIN, NICS, inspection records, and theft reports — so trafficking patterns can be identified in real time.
5. Close the common‑carrier loophole by requiring UPS, FedEx, and other carriers to follow firearm‑specific security protocols and report losses immediately.
6. Create a unified federal firearms trafficking statute that covers repeat purchases, coordinated acquisition, interstate movement, and organized distribution.
7. Expand nationwide reporting of multiple long‑gun purchases, mirroring the existing Southwest border requirement, to identify bulk‑buying patterns used by traffickers.
8. Require serialization and background checks for privately made firearms while preserving the right to build personal firearms responsibly.
9. Mandate escalating penalties for dealers with repeated violations, including missing inventory, falsified records, and repeated short time‑to‑crime sales.
10. Integrate DHS and CBP border‑seizure data with ATF trafficking indicators to expose interstate and international trafficking routes.

These reforms do not regulate individuals. They regulate systems. They restore oversight. They allow the public to see what the federal government has documented for decades but has been legally barred from sharing.

If the system is designed to keep the public blind, then the People must change the system.

We call on Congress to act.