Law enforcement agents raid gun store; find ammo

[RPB]

Law enforcement agents raid Deming gun store
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Multiple law enforcement agents raided the New Deal Shooting Sports sports south of Deming Tuesday morning and reportedly uncovered a bunker stored with ammunition.

four armored personnel carriers and two helicopters participated in the morning raid.

Agents from ICE, DEA, DHS and Luna County participated in the raid.

More at link above, but no hint as to why they were raided or arrested

[texanron]

I guess I can cross this place off my list of online ammo suppliers.

[C-dub]

Uh oh. I hope they don't come to my house.

[Pete92FS]

- Ammo at a gun store??? How strange.

There's got to be more to this story.

[RPB]

Four arrests were made, according to an official, but the charges were not released.

[RPB]

Related (New Deal gun store owner Rick Reese)

http://www.desertexposure.com/200511/200511_sky.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For as long as I've known Rick Reese (four years, seems like 10), he has been prognosticating a meltdown of the American economy—not just a recession or a depression, but the Big One. When you have an $8 trillion national debt,...

Rick and wife Terri Reese are managers of New Deal Shooting Sports, located about six miles southeast of Deming. Their large showroom...

New Deal is not only a weapons depot and ammo dump...

[speedsix]

...seems like a red-blooded patriotic American...no wonder they targeted him...

[RPB]

more http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18788548" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Customers were still showing up at the business into Tuesday afternoon, puzzled at the store's sudden closing.

"Yesterday, I found out they had opened up in this location," said Las Cruces resident Bruce Cranmer. "I needed some reloading supplies, so I went down to pick them up."

Diversion from ATF scandal

The indictment against the Reeses is the result of a investigation spearheaded by Homeland Security Investigations that later expanded to include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. attorney's Las Cruces office.

The indictment alleges that in July 2010, Ryin Reese sold 18 firearms to an individual who arranged to smuggle them into Mexico -- and into the hands of Mexican cartel members. He also helped a straw purchaser -- someone who buys firearms under false pretenses -- complete ATF forms, according to the indictment. On Aug. 28, 2010, after receiving a notice from law enforcement that a firearm sold by New Deal had been recovered, Terri Reese told the straw purchaser about the notice and expressed concern that her phones were being monitored by law enforcement, the indictment alleged.

[speedsix]

...now you be changin' things on us...now he looks like a one-man mob...

[RPB]

story was updated; yesterday they didn't list charges

Today they say he's a gunwalker

Tomorrow he'll say he jus did wat the ATF told him to do ...

They'll say ask the ATF ... oh oops, can't now they got promoted and have higher security classifications or sumpin'

[AEA]

He's one of Holder's designated suppliers to Mexico and he didn't kick back his monthly payment to Holder!

I dunno........could be?

[Beiruty]

I do not understand why an FFL dealer would aid in a straw purchase?

A dealer can sell any number of firearms and ammo to anyone who is legally able to purchase them. Do the paper work, get a NICS done, and fill paper for multiple pistols purchase (and now multiple long arms too). All federally legal. If someone can and clearly stated he is a straw purchaser or wants to falsify fed forms. He is most likely a undercover agent.

Also, why bother with repacking ammo? it is something the dealer would never do.

If an FFL dealer wants to act like a stupid to make an extra buck, trouble is ahead.