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Gun Store Owner Indicted for Conspiracy and Attempting to Provide Material Support to Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations [More]

News stories here. Guns and Gadgets comentary here.

It’s hard to believe an FFL intimately familiar with ATF oversight could be this stupidly self-destructive and risk all over such limited returns, and anyone who remembers the ordeal of the Reese family, and how the full weight of the government, lying witnesses, and frozen assets make an adequate defense nigh-on impossible, will have their skepticism meter turned to “High.”

I stipulate I just heard about this story and have no evidence to back that up. It’s just that I don’t have a high degree of confidence that ATF has always been a truthful source about U.S. guns to Mexico.

[Via Jess]

We’re All Suspects Now

Gun store owner says FBI asked him to check firearm sales against list of names, pics in Guthrie case… He said none of the names returned a match for firearm purchases within the past year. According to Martin, the agent told him investigators planned to visit additional gun stores to determine whether anyone on the list had recently bought a weapon. [More]

Why didn’t they just ask ATF?

What did Inspector Clouseau say?

[Via Steve T]

The Non-Psychic FFL Loophole

Gun store owner says shooter who killed 2 schoolchildren showed no warning signs before attack… Westman had already passed the required background checks and had a valid permit to purchase the gun… [More]

So, if prior restraints thrown up by all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t stop him, what’s the point of saying the store guy didn’t catch any disqualifiers?

Ah, the old “You’re law-abiding until you’re not” argument the grabbers apply to all of us… And that gun manufacturers and dealers “knew or should have known”…

Two words: Associated Press.

Our Hero!

This was a heroic action by the employee and undoubtedly saved who knows how many lives. [More]

So the position of the industry is “gun control” works but NICS needs a vigilante assist?

Doesn’t that also play into the hands of lawfaring gun-grabbers who argue dealers without psychic abilities are negligent and liable? And can they still do that if the person is the “wrong” color?

I note they’re prosecuting the guy for lying on the 4473. Guess he didn’t have the right dad.

A Higher Ordnung

Children of an Amish farmer who sold thousands of guns despite not having the required federal firearms dealer license dropped their ownership claims to several dozen guns seized by the government. [More]

I see my questions still haven’t been answered.

[Via Jess]

Verdict in on ATF

Jury acquits former Kenai gun shop owner on federal firearms charge [More]

What I want to know is who the snitches who contacted ATF were.

Right-wingers, if you can believe The Atlantic.

[Via Jess]

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