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Just another follow up to the discussion.

I spoke at length to the son of the owner / manager of a small family owned gun range / gun store.

The BATFE compliance department spent 3 weeks at his shop. Minimum of 2 BATFE Agents and max of 5. Every gun was inventoried and records were checked all the way back to the 70's.
Every field of every 4473 record from 2007 was checked. We discussed the mistakes. None of the mistakes would even slightly delay the identification of the person that bought the firearm.

He had an appointment with the Houston office. They were going to decide whither to revoke his license or not. He thought they would not.

It sounded like this was the 1st audit of many to come. When the come back next year to look at 2008, they will try to find other trivial mistakes and because of this audit, any mistakes they find will be considered 'willful'.

Take a look at the Red's Trading Post Blog
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/

The NRA is writing letters to the BATFE.
http://www.nraila.org/pdfs/batfesullivan.pdf

I have written to both our Senators and have received responses. I asked them to "Hold" the nomination for Mike Sullivan. Neither has done it.
Please take the time to write our senators.

I am glad TXInvestigator has had good dealings with the ATF.
Not everyone has.


http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=200
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/R ... &issue=018
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?P ... 1210b.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634316/posts
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=318
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58353
http://www.blogcatalog.com/post-tag/batfe
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57074
http://www.constitution.org/col/san930325.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801943/posts
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/200 ... deral.html
http://www.therallypoint.org/forum/inde ... 781.0;wap2
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/006619.php
http://www.alphecca.com/mt_alphecca_arc ... 02099.html
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/read ... 932&Disp=1
http://www2.washingtonmonthly.com/archi ... 000100.php

http://www.geekswithguns.com/modules.ph ... opic&t=596
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/freedo ... s/tag/atf/

It is likely that the person that told me all 6 gun dealers in Alvin, were chased out of business, for minor paper work problems by the BATFE, was Exaggerating.
However, it matches a pattern of behavior that I have read about for years.

Personally, I'd rather close the BATFE and keep the gun stores.

President Bush has asked that Michael Sullivan be confirmed by the Senate as the Director of the BATFE.

I don't know if you guys are aware of the tricks the BATFE has been using to shut down FFL's. One of my daily reads is:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/ They are trying to shut down Red's for tiny paperwork violations. Red's took them to court and to the court of public opinion.
I spoke to someone last week that informed me that 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.

This is so wrong that congress told them to put a stop to it in the 2007 crime bill.

The BATFE didn't listen to congress so...
They said it again this year.

A couple or three US Senators are holding Sullivan's nomination.

I have written Hutchison and Cornyn asking them to do the same. If you live in Texas, take the time to do the same.

http://www.senate.gov/~hutchison/
http://cornyn.senate.gov/

It's time for the BATFE to start following the will of Congress and the people. Let's start with shutting down the confirmation of the Director and follow it up with shutting down the entire agency.