Received letter from ATF

[jimmyraythomason]

Sounds like good advice to me JohnBT.

 

[Deanimator]

Well, folks, I'm here to tell you that that is sure a great way to spend someone else's money real quick!

Better their money than their freedom.

If I'm wrong, they're out a few bucks.

If you're wrong, they can go to prison and PERMANENTLY lose the right to own firearms.

As I've said elsewhere. If your advice goes bad, you'll just wander off to the next gullible victim.

 

[Gordon]

I've always had good luck calling and asking for sit downs.

 

[sho'nuff]

update

Spoke to the agent today ... he just said all I was required to do was respond to the letter. He asked me a few vague questions that I answered. Seems to be someone in another state (I've never been) has a similar name to mine and fits my description... and hes a felon of course. I'm sure this will clear up. Thanks for input everyone.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

what no dogs shot? doors kicked in kittens stomped? how can that be?!

 

[Chuck Warner]

...amazing. a civil response to a civil letter. Simple clarification was all they were looking for.

 

[Deanimator]

...amazing. a civil response to a civil letter. Simple clarification was all they were looking for.

Maybe. Richard Jewell thought he was "helping" the FBI too...

 

[lobo9er]

Deanimator

Maybe. Richard Jewell thought he was "helping" the FBI too...

that poor guy

 

[gyvel]

Maybe. Richard Jewell thought he was "helping" the FBI too...

Makes you wonder about the First Amendment sometimes, doesn't it...

 

[Kindrox]

Maybe. Richard Jewell thought he was "helping" the FBI too...

Well I think the OP will come out better off than selling his guns, hiring a lawyer, and leaving town for a while. Richard Jewell did come out of that a few million bucks better off. Some how I don't think this letter was to kick off a Richard Jewell treatment.

Out of the money you saved, maybe you can send a few boxs of tin foil to some board members.

 

[ilbob]

Spoke to the agent today ... he just said all I was required to do was respond to the letter. He asked me a few vague questions that I answered. Seems to be someone in another state (I've never been) has a similar name to mine and fits my description... and hes a felon of course. I'm sure this will clear up. Thanks for input everyone.

Just because he said that does not make it true. This is a guy that works for a government agency that encourages what is as close to perjury as you can get and still skate. A lie without consequences will not bother them one bit.

 

[Deanimator]

Well I think the OP will come out better off than selling his guns, hiring a lawyer, and leaving town for a while. Richard Jewell did come out of that a few million bucks better off. Some how I don't think this letter was to kick off a Richard Jewell treatment.

You don't know what the letter was for and neither does the OP.

I'm sure Jewell really enjoyed his "windfall" at the hands of the FBI. I'm sure that there are still people who think he was the Olympic Park bomber. Of course since he's dead, there's nothing he can do about it. If he'd kept his mouth shut, he'd have gotten no money, and probably no trouble.

No intelligent person would take at face value, the word of an employee of an agency which made perjury official policy.

He doesn't know why it was done. He doesn't really know that it's over. Neither do you.

But as I said, if you tell somebody to do something foolish and self-damaging, YOU won't suffer a bit.

 

[dogtown tom]

Why hasn't the OP posted the actual text of the letter?

That would cut out a lot of the tin foil dramatics in this thread.

 

[Art Eatman]

Enuf.