Posted on 03/16/2007 9:50:21 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
This is the new ATFE tactic, find violations no matter how slight, and then work their administrative court steps.
I cannot believe anyone is dumb enough to think that this is a good thing.
Fine him? Certainly, but to jump from "failure to file proper form for 5 pistol purchases in a 7 day period" to "Revoked license" is draconian.
There are more than six violations here...
C'mon. You know and I know that all these regulations are in place so that licensed gun shops can get screwed by the government down the road. The ATF is your typical government bureaucracy that throws common sense out the window and make sure gun shops abide by arcane rules and laws. That's why a lot of mom-and-pop gun shops have went out of business because they couldn't afford to keep up with the massive compliance regulations.
Your choice, but, whether for good or ill, the NRA and the Gun owners of America are the faces of the legal American firearm-owning community and pretty much set the standards for legal firearm ownership.
But the supposedly more competent legislators are not supposed to uphold/honor the constitution? Politicians created the problem and are to be held accountable, not the gun dealer being defrauded by politicians.
What other businesses are routinely and forcibly shut down for good by the federal government over trivial and infrequent paperwork mistakes? This isn't a case of selling High Points and Lorcins a case at a time to out of town diversity or losing AR-15s out of the back room, it's one in a thousand paperwork oversights. If any of this had any ties to violent crime, you can bet it would have made the mainstream press by now.
Yeah whatever. You're one of them "the law's the law!" types. You would have been laughed at back in the Continental days.
I'm not a gun dealer, but I am in a highly regulated business with a lot of arcane rules, and complex licensing and registration requirements and I am in absolute compliance with every single one of them.
Like the BATFE, many of the rules are pointless and occasionally reps from our industry try to change them. But so long as the rules are the rules, we abide by them 100%.
You make for a good little serf.
I wholly agree, dude, and believe me, I'm no fan of the BATF or its onerous policies and its new 'gotcha' modus operandii. But, I don't see this guy's losing his dealers' license as a 2nd Amendment issue. It's more in the legislative realm, and it SHOULD be the jobs of the legislators to reign in the BATF on this stuff. But unfortunately, the law is the law here, and I know of several very good gunshops in my area that follow these rules to the letter and have no problems. He didn't and now he's out of business!
Read "Unintended Consequences" and read the history of ATF enforcement and their goal to destroy gun dealers.
It opened my eyes!
Nobody can have 100% compliance with BATFE paperwork. Over the years, as they squeeze out more dealers, they will be able nit-pick the remaining ones until there are none left.
The reduction in the number of FFL dealers has already affected competition. Gun prices are getting higher all the time, for no reason other than competition is going away.
Pricing guns out of the reach of ordinary citizens is infringing their 2nd Amendment rights.
Smaller-scale Defense Contractors who do shoddy record keeping...
Huh, I havent seen any evidence of that.
Im not sticking up for BATF here but I find that claim incredulous
Agreed. But again, it is Congress' job to reign in the BATF. Unfortunately though, our wonderful voting public keeps resending enough gun-grabbers back to the Hill every election cycle so that nothing ever gets done. Ultimately, and I hate to say this, it is the people's fault for letting the BATF get out of control with this agenda.
I can't speak to the specifics of this case, of course, but I can say that it was one of the coolest stores I've ever patronized. I'm hoping they get their license back.
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