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Posted on 02/01/2013 3:16:43 PM PST by ronnyquest
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A federal search warrant affidavit outlines the massive raid that seized nearly 1,500 firearms from the home and business of an Albuquerque man and why the feds were after him.
Last week rifles lined the lawn of a northeast Albuquerque home that belonged to Robert Adams. Homeland Security Investigations was also busy loading hundreds of handguns into boxes.
It took federal agents days to log every weapon seized into evidence.
Four search warrants filed Thursday show the HSI investigators seized nearly 900 firearms from Adams' home. There were 548 handguns and 317 rifles listed in the warrant return inventory.
They also searched his office that day taking 599 pistols and revolvers.
(Excerpt) Read more at krqe.com ...
Neighbors said Adams was a gun collector, and some heard he was a licensed gun seller, too.
This looks like a fishing expedition. That, or the feds were just doing some shopping.
Coming to a city and town near you. Collectors first then .... and no charges, (yet). I’m sure they will find a paperwork error somewhere.
Feds have another 411,346,002 guns left to seize inside the US...
“The search warrant also said Adams was investigated in Canada for keeping about 80 illegal guns in a storage unit. U.S. agents worked with Canadian police on that case.”
So this is probable cause....someone was investigated. So what. Was he charged? No. Another fishing expedition designed to thaward the 2nd amendment.
This statement really bothers me.
Did King George order the raid?
This battle cry will be ‘The turn Coats are coming, the turn coats are coming!
It just kills the feds that we don't have mandatory registration.
“Federal investigators confirm that. However, they’re also investigating him for possible gun smuggling, tax evasion and violating importation laws.”
A large volume licensed gun dealer and collector that’s been doing this for years... so what’s suspicious about this? Look what the feds collected in just a few months, without the correct paperwork I might add, in Milwaukee..
We'll see.
And
However, a bigger concern is that no markings on the guns and missing documents mean the guns are not traceable by law enforcement.
Marked? Registry? You mean no serial numbers? Hmmmm serial numbers for pre-1968 guns were not required or are they now.
finally, hope and “cache” I can believe in.
"This statement really bothers me."
It bothers me a great deal, too, as it should bother everyone. I suspect this is the true issue at stake here. He had loads of perfectly legal firearms that were completely untraceable to law enforcement and that just burns them up. Adams is one of the most reputable and knowledgeable dealers in the Southwest. He has been doing this for years.
I read the comments under that article and this guy is a big time collector plus has a license to sell.
Believe this was done to warn us that the govn. can get your guns any time they want. Note they pulled in the IRS to “investigate” him.
Anyone who has a gun is subject to IRS investigation or give up your gun and IRS will go away. Expect that is the message here.
As far as I know, we are not required (yet) to track private sales. These were private sales, which just irritates the feds to no end.
It’s another manifestation of fedzilla’s “CREAT-A-CRIME” program.
If these b*****ds want someone badly enough, there’s a “crime” tailor-made for the situation.
“... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any
government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
......just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
p.411,
Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED, Signet Books, NY, 1957
This cannot be allowed to stand.
/johnny
I think I know who this guys is, doesn't he mainly sell totally legal pre 1898 guns?
I want to know who said anything? Will the feds be fishing all over the country?
A surprisingly large number of people think owning a lot of guns is a crime. I am sure most of the Feds think it should be.
This appears to be his website.
Looks pretty out in the open, he is an antique gun collector/dealer.
I think he is toast. Tax evasion. The IRS code is impossible to comply with so we nearly all qualify as unconvicted felons. That is the beauty of the code. It gives government unlimited powers through confusion.
I think he is toast. Tax evasion. The IRS code is impossible to comply with so we nearly all qualify as unconvicted felons. That is the beauty of the code. It gives government unlimited powers through confusion.
It's nobody's business but their own.
Great line - better expect massive plagiarism as it goes viral.
If his guns are legal and the charges are unrelated he *should* get his firearms back but it’s going to take a lot of legal hassle and $. Also depends what state this was in, I don’t recall.
The same IRS that will enforce Obama care - me thinks it is the gestapo for Obama’s new world order.
Until you attract the attention of "Law Enforcement".
Just wait, they will have a "Report Your Neighbor" program.
Pitting neighbor against neighbor. It's a socialists wet dream.
Why? Pre ‘68 lots of guns, especially cheaper guns, had no serial #s.
I have a problem with law enforcement going after this guy BECAUSE he had guns with no serial numbers, not because the guns didn’t have any.
The bass turds.
Lemme guess. He’ll never be charged, it’ll take years to get only part of his collection returned and the most valuable guns will be scratched and scarred or just plain missing, maybe in some BATFags personal collection.
Smuggling guns into the U.S.?
That is definitely contrary to the 0bama policy. Taking good guns away from Mexican drug cartels.
Turn dat frown de udder way 'roun, mon. :-)
While Fedzilla may have confiscated 900 firearms there, according to recent sales figures we can figure that on average Americans bought about 78,333 firearms today.
Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies
One neighbor who did not want to be identified said it was a shock.
“I didn’t really see the guns but from a distance,” the neighbor said. “I saw them pulling them out into the front yard.
“Its very scary in the fact that the school is so close by makes it seem even more dangerous.”
Years ago I was working in a bank in Alexandria, Virginia (home of many a liberal) when we were robbed. No gun was shown, only a note was passed. Customers were unaware anything had happened until we locked the door, asked everyone not to touch anything, and please remain until the FBI arrived to conduct their review. One woman immediately became panicky, almost fainted, and said: “Oh my God. They could have had a gun!” Amazing how just the thought of a gun can drive liberals into unrealistic emotional rants - kind of like the NY legislature.
Gotchya
This bothers me too.
They don’t indicate which weapons were in this condition.
Antiques and “curios” in many cases had NO serial numbering and are NOT subject any kind of registration.
“Curios” include one of a kind and other back yard manufactured knock offs that were routine in the 18th to the late 19th C and NOT illegal.
How many Pennsylvania or Kentucky rifles have an SN? Sometimes older pieces are so holster worn, any ID that might have been there, is long gone.
Yes I know modern tech can plumb the depth of modern metal and find an SN that has been ground off. But if the piece is pre 20th C you are not going to have that high quality metal.
What brings me to this is how the media and LEO mislead and scare the genpop.
Example; I always read the screaming headlines: “HE HAD HANDGRENADES!” And just about everyone on this board knows that they probably were just those fakey paper weights that pimply faced kids buy at gun shows and love to put on their dressers to scare mom. But the headline is pushed and shoved as “really for real!” Knowing full well the genpop has no clue.
The propaganda is thick and VERY DEEP! And lies, all lies, big lies, bold lies, is how the commie pigs intend to push their deranged agenda. You can take that to the bank.
Bottom line, I’ll bet my last dollar that these so called “unmarked’ weapons are nothing more than antiques and curios. The fedgov knows that the MSM is dumber than a box of rox and completely in bed with the tyrant. Why bother to tell them the truth?
I know commie pigs, I know them inside out. They are real, they are deadly.
i guess fedgov wanted some free guns. to go along with the hundreds of millions of rounds it’s buying.
You show me the man, I’ll show you the crime. —Stalin
No serial numbers on some of Adam’s gun collection may be due to the fact he collected older and antique firearms. The .22 bolt action rifle my dad gave me as a kid in the late 1950s has no serial number as these were not required on .22 rifles and some shotguns back then. Will the feds call me a felon when they grab mine? Yes, as the agenda is to make all firearms illegal for we civilians.
Unless he gets convicted of a felony.
My model 67 Winchester .22 was bought new in 1940 and has no SN and it wasn’t required unless the firearm was manufactured for export.
They do: see something, say something.
The anti-gun, anti-freedom propaganda machine is in full swing. Marxists know that most people, rational people, abhor their policies and they must disarm the people, the producers, before their nefarious schemes can be implemented. Marxism is a disease and must be treated as such. It must be excised like the cancer it is. Marxists (leftists, so-called liberals) have diseased minds.
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