If you haven't seen it, BATF posted thousands of seized weapons in a three page public paid notice in yesterday's Wall Street Journal to the public to retrieve their stolen weapons or they will be destroyed. Since most people don't get the WSJ and there was no copy of this on the electronic version of the WSJ, just how do people access the information? Why did BATF pick a newspaper with limited circulation and not say, USA Today for this paid public announcement? Maybe they did but I didn't hear about it.So why wouldn't BATFU post this on its website?
Title of the announcement starting on page B8 is as follows:
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, FIREARMS, TOBACCO AND EXPLOSIVES (ATF)
Next line:
SEIZED PROPERTY NOTICES
This notice utilized pages B8, B9 and B10 in very small type.
You'd think a "gun lobby" worth its salt would get a friendly congressthing to introduce a bill requiring it.
well if there oughta be a law, then it oughta make the ATF list all seized firearms on online auction websites. like ebay!
ReplyDeletetwo birds, one stone!
It does not appear that BATFE wants anyone to claim any of the seized items. This newspaper ad just covers the requirement that they post siezed assets that will be permanently forfeited.
ReplyDeleteAfter, if a weapon was stolen, could they not determine who the rightful owner was?
Strange how ATF audits and traces can discover an "unscrupulous gun dealer" 400 miles away...
ReplyDelete"There's no use complaining about it. The plans have been on file in Alpha Centauri Quadrant for 500 of your years." -- The Vogon Constructor Fleet, just before vaporizing Earth for a hyperspace bypass, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Thieves! - Nothing more, nothing less.
ReplyDeleteThey apparently have no intentions of returning stolen property to rightful owners.
I'm sure this falls under more word smithing by twisting the meaning of, "reasonable" notice. Which of course its not reasonable notice but they have the world's largest law firm behind them, the DOJ so they can pretty much do as they want in such matters.
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