Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives aka ATF, Form 4473 Lines 18a & 18b
If you are like Millions of Longtime & New Firearm Owners you’ve probably had to fill out an ATF Form 4473 lately and this is the one line you might object to, I, Publius Jr, did.
If you look at the above Form Excerpt you’ll see what I mean, or maybe you’ve filled out so many forms and accept what the local, state and federal governments shovel you don’t understand my objection.
As Sesame Street often says “one of these items isn’t like the other.” Can you see it?
No?
Well it’s in 18b. Now do you see it?
Line 18a has it’s own issues, but in Line 18b you’ll see what is so objectionable that I’m writing about my outrage in this article.
Line 18b is problematic
If you have found it, terrific, if you haven’t look at the one box that isn’t like the others and it is the box on the far right marked “White.” This is a color not an ethnic background like the others are, and none of them are a Race.
If you are like me you would like to think of yourself as an intelligent, caring person but to fill out this garbage line makes you a conformist with knuckle-dragging bureaucrats who love to sort us people into easier to control groups. Bureaucrats tend to be pension and vacation minded so they never question what sort of nonsense they have to push on the good people of the USA.
I don’t believe in the Concept of Race. Racism is nothing more than hate and prejudice on display. Race doesn’t affect my day-to-day actions nor in my opinion does it belong on a Federal Form or Application.
The only place these sorts of questions belong is maybe on your Census Form you fill out every 10 years. If you have a legitimate Social Security Number then all of this information is already known, so you might question why you are required to fill out any demographic questions at all. It’s a good question which is never answered.
Line 18a
Why is, “Ethnicity,” needed on this form? Why are there only 2 choices here? Why does this question seem to focus on only Hispanic people?
Have Hispanic people somehow committed a crime by merely being born with that origin? It seems very prejudicial in the way Line 18a is formed. Is this line a hold over from another era when being Hispanic was considered wrong?
I’d like to call myself a Native American, or a Native Minnesotan, but you’d think I was from a tribe, or a First Nations person, but I’m not. I was born in this state so I’m native to it and I’m from nowhere else. Where my ancestors were from is Europe and not from one specific area as I have Northern and Eastern European background as well. Those tribes by the way are not native to North America either, God did not start up humans in this area but rather the Mesopotamia region of the world and really no one knows where Eden was, though from the way God protects his people, the Jews, Eden is probably in Israel. Eden if you recall from reading your Bible is where God created a garden perfect for his first 2 people he made, Adam & Eve. They lived there a number of years before they were banished and forced east of there. A huge worldwide flood moved the continents around and messed some areas on the planet since.
I wrote about these demographic questions in another article entitled, “Isn’t it Time to Drop the Race Question on Job Applications?” There I asked the same questions I’ve asked here. I make a note of why I don’t believe in the man-made Concept of Race, as it is never mentioned in the Bible and it only showed up about at the time of the African Slave Trade.
I know Minnesota Legislators, other government people, and pastors read the articles here but they don’t seem to get the message these questions don’t need to be on job applications, nor government forms anymore. In order to achieve Rev Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream of a Society where your character is more important than what you look like we must implore the government “by the people” to act. Contact your Government Representative and demand this change.
Until then…
I’d like to ask if I can put in an “Other” box and write in, “American,” but to avoid a hassle with an unconstitutional agency regulating firearms (See 2A why this is unconstitutional) that has had a recent name change to AFT, I’ll just be quiet as I fill out this form.