“Good luck regulating the dealers who sell from the trunks of automobiles late at night in the ‘hood.”
Yep. Getting those people is dangerous. They might shoot back. Heck, they probably don’t even have any dogs to shoot. Much easier taking away a law abiding FFL who made a mistake on the paperwork.
If they decide take on those unlicensed dealers at all, they will send the locals in first as cannon fodder and if the gangsters don’t shoot them, then the federals will as a pretext to go in with all guns blazing.