Buy a car, Get an AK, expect a visit from the Government?

[Munk]

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[PBratton]

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I agree with some of the comment, Bank of Kansas should loose a bunch of accounts.

I think if I lived up there I'd buy a car from him whether I need one or not...

[RPB]

wow, Imagine if he gave discount coupons for Gibson guitars too... they'd be all over him ...

“She said: ‘Let me tell you how important this is, the White House started their morning with a briefing on you. We got a call from Washington, D.C. this morning. They wanted you checked out,” he said.

“That’s your big government in action. I’m a guy exercising his constitutional rights and I’m such a threat to security that the White House has to check in on me?” he said.

So, the White House itself had a briefing and ordered investigation of the small private car dealership in another State, but knew nothing about a huge international-wide Fast and Furious operation which was by it's own employees?

[Heartland Patriot]

Let me tell you my thoughts on what REALLY went down. As someone who spent twenty years dealing with the finest in government bureaucracy, I can picture this in my head. Something like this...

Obama sees the story on CNN and makes some comment on "flyover country" peasant-types giving guns away to sell cars and says something derogatory about it. IMMEDIATELY after the meeting breaks up (and maybe even during), someone with enough clout in his staff whips out the phone and calls the ATF, and tells them to get some agents on the scene NOW because Obama said he didn't like it, it didn't seem right, and wanted that thing checked out. So, the person at the top of the ATF who took that call gets on the horn to some agents in the area and starts chewing them out about why they are letting illegal stuff with guns go on in their area and they better get their heads out of dark crevasses in their anatomy and put a stop to this as it is making the ATF look bad with the administration and they have enough trouble already. Of course, the agents don't like getting chewed out, so they go and do what they did to the car dealer, EVEN THOUGH HE DID NOTHING WRONG.

Anyone on here probably knows how much I don't like this administration or the guy in charge of it. AND, I know of his anti-firearms outlook on life and his record in Illinois. But, I just cannot see him spending a serious amount of time on one little car dealer in Missouri doing a promotional gun give-away. But I CAN see a sycophantic toady in his admin trying to curry favor with the boss and hearing a bit of displeasure in the boss' voice and running with it as a way to suck up. I know this because I've seen how this stuff happened down through the military chain of command. One general says a little something about how it would be nice if the troops did _______ and the next thing you know a whole new policy has been written, junior officers told to get with the program, sergeants wasting vast amounts of time getting trained and the guys at the bottom wondering who thought up the newest stupid thing for them to waste time on when they already had enough work.

Maybe I'm wrong and the National Administrator did make that call...but either way, I still don't like the BATFE or their way of doing business. AND, why too much government regulation is a BAD THING.

[MadMonkey]

I'm thinking about buying a Ford of some sort when I get back from Afghanistan, so I might make a trip up there with a buddy just to purchase one from him (as long as I get the AK voucher ).

[MasterOfNone]

Obama sees the story on CNN and makes some comment on "flyover country" peasant-types giving guns away to sell cars and says something derogatory about it.
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But, I just cannot see him spending a serious amount of time on one little car dealer in Missouri doing a promotional gun give-away.

I doubt it would take a serious amount of time from O. I can see him taking all of two seconds to tell someone "Shut this guy down," thus initiating the chain that you described.