2nd Amendment
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A friend recently lost his FFL. It's a long and twisted tale of Jack-Bootism which I'll leave out for now. The ATF guy who handled the whole thing told him that all his firearms could be transferred from the shop to his personal possession and then sold. Immediately. Just like any other private sale with no paper trail.
However, in reading thru the Rules and Regulations of ATF, after the fact, we found a section stating clearly(apparently) that these guns in fact can NOT be sold for a period of one year after license revocation. Even then they require a log book. This is emphatically NOT what the ATF'er said, repeatedly. This was one of the reasons my friend went down without a fight, against my repeated whining, and it now appears he is utterly screwed yet again.
Am I misunderstanding something here? Does the statement of an agent trump the official pronouncements of ATF(I doubt it)? Something absolutely stinks here.
Oh, an the side, has anyone else noticed a sudden push by ATF to yank FFL's on somewhat questionable technicalities? We've seen four shops shut down in southern Indiana in the last few months over paperwork SNAFU's that would normally have gotten nothing more than a bitch & moan session. Is there a trend or agenda going on here? And if so, what's behind it?
However, in reading thru the Rules and Regulations of ATF, after the fact, we found a section stating clearly(apparently) that these guns in fact can NOT be sold for a period of one year after license revocation. Even then they require a log book. This is emphatically NOT what the ATF'er said, repeatedly. This was one of the reasons my friend went down without a fight, against my repeated whining, and it now appears he is utterly screwed yet again.
Am I misunderstanding something here? Does the statement of an agent trump the official pronouncements of ATF(I doubt it)? Something absolutely stinks here.
Oh, an the side, has anyone else noticed a sudden push by ATF to yank FFL's on somewhat questionable technicalities? We've seen four shops shut down in southern Indiana in the last few months over paperwork SNAFU's that would normally have gotten nothing more than a bitch & moan session. Is there a trend or agenda going on here? And if so, what's behind it?