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so then, by your reasoning, the guy that lives down the street from me that sells vacuums isn't a dealer because he doesn't sell them thru a store?
or that amway/ alticor/ mary kay/ avon sellers aren't dealers because they run the business part time out of their home?
they do the same thing with other products that many of these once licensed gun dealers did with different products. maybe it wasn't full time, maybe it wasn't grand scale, but they sold and dealt in guns.

Like it or not, the government decided that only people actually operating a business would be elligible for a Federal Firearms dealers license from that point on. Your other examples are apples and oranges as the feds do not regulate Mary Kay cosmetics and vacuum cleaer salesmen. You and I can disagree with the current gun laws and that decision by the BATF to limit FFL's to actual businesses, but none the less, they are laws.

Look, if you were to hand me a petition that says, "Should 99% of existing gun laws be abolished?", I'd sign it. But the current laws are reality and it is more rare than some would like to believe that the BATF is revoking a dealer's license over mere technicalities.