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Just for everyone's consideration: the guy who wrote the letter to the newspaper signed his name and stated that the trigger was legal when he purchased it. I do not know if it was legal or not when he purchased it, because the writer did not state what type of trigger it was. I guess I'll just have to take him at his word. But, since he was willing to sign the letter, I choose to believe him.


As I stated in the OP, from now on I'm going to buy locally (brick-and-mortar stores) and pay cash.

Crash

A letter to the editor in our local newspaper should make us all aware of what's going on in this country. According to the writer of the letter, he received a call from a local deputy sheriff asking about the specialty trigger for his AR-15 that he had purchased legally online 18 months earlier. The deputy went on to say that there were two ATF agents in his office and that if the writer "surrendered the trigger," he wouldn't be charged with a federal felony. The writer goes on to say, "Apparently, the ATF sued the Texas trigger manufacturer in one most anti-gun courts in the country, Brooklyn, New York. Predictably, the judge ruled in favor of the ATF and now I get threatened and my personal property seized, without compensation."

I would never have believed that a deputy sheriff in Texas would have aided the ATF in seizing legally-owned private property. It boggles the imagination.

And, if the trigger was legal when it was purchased, how can the ATF (and the Brooklyn) judge make it illegal retroactively? Shouldn't it be "grandfathered"?

Perhaps it would behoove all of us to buy anything gun- or ammo-related only locally and to always pay cash.

Crash