Citing concerns that the government's collection of phone-tracking information is enabling it to create a de-factor gun owners registry, the National Rifle Association has field an amicus brief in support of the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit challenging those collection programs. In the brief, the NRA argues that the NSA's phone records collection program could "allow identification of NRA members, supporters, potential members, and other persons with whom the NRA communicates, potentially chilling their willingness to communicate with the NRA."
The ACLU suit asks the court to halt the datamining effort and purge phone records collected under the program, claiming in violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution.
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