The controversy erupted in April after Anchorage gun shops revealed that an ATF agent had visited them earlier this year, requesting access to their “bound books,” the volumes that firearms dealers are required by law to maintain, with every transaction involving gun purchases, sales, or other transactions...Great Northern Guns refused to cooperate with the ATF agent’s request, because it is against the law. [More]Hooray for them--that is a brave and principled stand. Now we need to help them watch their back against retaliation/"Economic Waco."
Here's my problem:
Young’s office appears satisfied that the gun shop flap has been put to rest...Why, because he received "assurances" after ATF was caught usurping authority, harassing gun stores and violating the frickin' law? I'm not satisfied and you shouldn't be either. Let these same bastards catch one of us in a technical violation and they'd come down on us with the full force of the state behind them.
2 comments:
In David Workman's column, it is said (by the BATF) that: " . . .affirmatively state that ATF has never maintained a database of lawful firearms owners; is not permitted by law to create and maintain such a database; and has no intention whatsoever of collecting any information for such a database."
Why, then, does BATF require dealers who are letting their FFL's expire to forward ALL record books to a collection point?
Perhaps, legally speaking, they are not inputting those records into a "database", but they are "collecting information".
"Deputy Director Brandon assured me that...they are looking to ensure [the situation], or anything like it, never happens again in the future. "
1) I seriously doubt Congressman Young was able to keep a straight face as he wrote/dictated this statement. If he DID then he probably already has options on several bridges.
2) I am darned near CERTAIN "Deputy Director Brandon" couldn't when he told the good Congressman that.
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