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ATF creating ‘legal’ injustice for FFL fighting revocation
examiner.com ^ | 12 September, 2012 | David Codrea

Posted on 09/13/2012 4:36:21 AM PDT by marktwain

By improperly causing a hearing to be removed from the court calendar, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives prevented a Federal Firearms Licensee from seeking discovery crucial to its case for a scheduled revocation hearing, a motion filed on behalf of Brink’s, Incorporated, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas at Dallas asserted Monday. Requesting either “to reinstate [the court] hearing date or, in the alternative, to reschedule [the] FFL revocation hearing,” the motion points out it “serves as Brink’s only opportunity to obtain discovery for the purposes of defending its license.”

This follows up on a story reported last month by Gun Rights Examiner, where the security firm, which maintains an FFL, was fighting an ATF notice of revocation it maintains is “illegal and against…ATF's own policies.”

The revocation, if not reversed, will prove costly. Per a Courthouse News Service report, “Brink's says it owns more than 14,000 guns, which are used by its 9,000 employees in 220 branches across the country.”

“Violations found during inspections in 2000 and 2002 did not result in administrative action and…no violations were found in subsequent inspections in 2005 and 2006,” the Brink’s discovery petition states, making the draconian revocation decision even more inexplicable. “Brink's has never received an ATF Warning Letter, nor been asked to attend an ATF Warning Conference, at any time in the past.”

In this latest development, a court hearing was scheduled for this Friday, and the ATF revocation proceeding wasn’t scheduled until the following Tuesday. But ATF told the Court that they weren’t served properly and the Court took the Friday hearing off the docket.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; bootthebatfe; brinks; corruption; ffl; govtabuse; tyranny
Brinks provided proof that ATF lied, and that they had been served properly, but by that time, the hearing had already been canceled, which meant that their FFL could be revoked *before* the discovery hearing. Worth a read.
1 posted on 09/13/2012 4:36:30 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

So what is the atf’s purpose for doing this? To disarm those who guard our cash? Why? So the cartels can rob Brinks Armored cars?


2 posted on 09/13/2012 4:56:34 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and bo stinks)
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So what is the atf’s purpose for doing this? To disarm those who guard our cash? Why? So the cartels can rob Brinks Armored cars

The ATF's mission is to disarm everyone except government JBTs

3 posted on 09/13/2012 5:01:50 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga; marktwain
Not to hijack this thread but the Government is training law enforcement in military tactics.

I live a couple of miles from Quantico and there are men in combat uniform walking around the area stores. These uniforms are not standard to any one service and not standard within the groups of men. When I ask them what they are doing they refuse to answer but then one day I was told they are law enforcement agents from all over the Country and are here training in the same areas where the Marines train their troops at Quantico.

This is scary stuff and these men all look like the types I see around who would follow any orders given them, including the apprehension or shooting of Innocent law abiding citizens.

I have never been a conspiracy type person but I now fully believe the Government is training law enforcement the tactics needed to suppress the civilian population and ensure they can take out any and all who resist.

4 posted on 09/13/2012 5:14:07 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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tactics needed to suppress the civilian population and ensure they can take out any and all who resist

"Arbeit Macht Frei"

ALL governments evolve to the same end. It's just that some break before they get there and others take longer to do it.

5 posted on 09/13/2012 5:27:17 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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And I still wonder as to how these guys can face their neighbors and supposedly friends and children as neighbors. I believe history gives a lesson that governments,legal or otherwise, are capable of instilling a behavior in people that is not to be trusted. I think our Founders realized this.


6 posted on 09/13/2012 5:41:08 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: OldMissileer
I doubt the following will make sense to many of you, but here goes.

Right now we have had MANY reports of OTMs (other than Mexican) apprehensions not being South American or Salvadoran, but Arab or from an Arabian country. These people were living in Mexico, learning the Mexican way of speaking and acting with a purpose of establishing cells here in the US. They have been trained in military tactics.

In order to combat these invaders, LEOs need to be trained in military tactics also in order to be effective. When these scum decide to attack a school (read “Terror at Breslan” in you want to find out their agenda) response needs to be immediate and deadly. The average cop does not have the experience or training to be effective.

This is why I believe this training is necessary.

Having said all that, I will tell you that I have DOD manuals that detail the process for building internment camps and the process for interning civilians. It is a double edged sword to be sure. Here in Maricopa County, I know which way the wind blows and am not concerned. After November, my attitude may change.

7 posted on 09/13/2012 6:04:49 AM PDT by Glennb51
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To: OldMissileer

.....paging Henry Bowman.


8 posted on 09/13/2012 6:06:46 AM PDT by vortec94
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To: marktwain
But ATF told the Court that they weren’t served properly and the Court took the Friday hearing off the docket.

So, did BATF make a false representation in court? Is there a legal penalty for that? Should there not at least be a contempt of court charge against their attorney, and any and all parties complicit in this false representation?

9 posted on 09/13/2012 6:09:57 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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So, did BATF make a false representation in court? Is there a legal penalty for that? Should there not at least be a contempt of court charge against their attorney, and any and all parties complicit in this false representation?

That is my take on it. I can pretty much guarantee that the ATF will say that it was a bureaucratic snafu, they are so sorry, it will never happen again... while at the same time insisting that the licensee have their license revoked because it is all so important that it be done *right now*.

I would love to believe that the judge would have the guts to hold them in contempt, but the ATF and the federal law enforcement agencies strike fear into many hearts.

10 posted on 09/13/2012 10:34:04 AM PDT by marktwain
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