ALERT!! Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their County!

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Since I discovered the ability to find deals on guns and ammo on line I haven't frequented my local shops for a few months. I saw a gun the other night that I thought might be a cost effective replacement for the Colt 1911. Late this afternoon I stopped in at one of my local haunts who probably sells more guns than any other in our small town. As I walked in and took one look I knew something was wrong. He usually has 5 glass counters full of various hand guns and is usually the first to have new models. One, ONE lousy counter with 60% old model S/W. I asked what was up. He said he had been audited for 3 days by the ATF going back 6 years (laying the records on top of 3 counters and scaring all his customers away). They found nothing wrong with the record keeping (David's wife is meticulous)but before they left they told him the following. 1. ATF would be hiring 800 new enforcement agents so he could expect more audits, 2. he would have to restrict all access within so many feet of the guns to those under 18, 3. He would have to store all firearms and ammo in an APPROVED ATF Safe at night (would take him at least 3 hours to do that if he knew what was approved), 4. He would have to show proof of having a Million dollars in liability insurance. At present he has 100,000 which costs him $1,700 per year. He got an estimate for 1 million from his insurance agent and the cost would be nearly $10,000. David told me these rules would go into effect before the end of the year. He said "I give up". "The hell of it is I can't even sell those GD Smiths to anyone even at cost, nobody will buy them"!
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These are all rules promulgated by the executive branch and unless legislative action gets taken specifically to stop this crap it won't stop. They're making sure they close the small FFL down by making it too expensive to do business. I'm so :mad: I'm
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!!! What can we do to stop this? Technically the ATF is interferring with Interstate Commerce by imposing rules that favor the big dealers, but once they get it down to just a few they will have fewer targets to harrass. Has anyone else expressed this? Everyone, check your dealers and see what they say, see if they are aware of this. I am outraged and all gunowners should be. David said he called the other dealers in town and no one knew a thing about it. He was amazed because he is getting alerts from the NRA. I am ready for suggestions. But whatever we do we need to mount a massive effort that involves all the various groups.

Liberty requires vigilance!
 
It seems to me BATF is imposing the same rules on your local gun dealer that S&W "agreed" to with the feds. I think he should bring it up with his congresscritters and ask them which piece of legislation they passed and clinton signed that requires all of these new rules.
 
Contact his Congressman and Senators. If they won't help, which they probably won't, then he might as well expect to be harrassed by the KGBATF, until he's out of business.

While he's waiting for the thugs to close him down, he might entertain himslef by reading a novel called, "Unintended Consequences."

JMHO. J.B.
 
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