Well I buy it! As a member of the NRA Legal Affairs Committee and the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Board of Trustees I see documented cases of just such practices and they do not appear to be isolated cases. I am personally familiar with one of the Alvin FFL's and the treatment and intimidation he received is reprehensible. BATFE wants to get rid of every small dealer they can and that is their current focus. Perhaps the companies you worked for were larger dealers, or at least had larger volume, and are not yet targeted for extension. When BATFE achieves it goal with the small dealers, the large ones will be next. There is a reason the "fix the BATFE" bill needs to pass.txinvestigator wrote:Sorry, I just don't buy accusations like, " All Six FFL's in Alvin Texas were shut down for trivial paper work violations. These were not errors that would keep anyone from identifying the person on the 4473 (yellow form). The were using abbreviations instead of spelling out Yes, No, Texas and the like."
I have worked for companies with FFLs and I have been thru ATF audits. I have seen the FFL application process.
Chas.