Stag Arms gets raided by ATF

[Ryanxia]

FTA:

Federal agents seized thousands of gun parts and documents from New Britain gun maker Stag Arms LLC today.

According to court documents, an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revealed that Stag failed to comply with the National Firearms Act when agents found 3,000 unserialized machine gun lower receivers, and that the company failed to maintain documents for 136 unserialized receivers.

So, after the ATF and media hype it up I'm guessing this is a clerical issue blown out of proportion, any excuse to raid someone in the gun industry.

Does anyone think this will have an affect on manufacturers trying to cover their butts from these kinds of shenanigans in the future?



http://www.guns.com/2015/05/18/atf-confiscate-3000-guns-from-stag-arms-over-nfa-violations/

 

[JohnBT]

What was the ATF supposed to do? They spotted the problems, told Stag about them and then left for 7 days. A week. When they returned Stag hadn't done a thing to fix the problems.

Duh. It's like wearing a kick me sign and then acting surprised when you attract attention.

 

[Zangetsu]

#bureaucratsbeingbureaucrats


.gov busibodies doing what they do best.

 

[joem1945]

One guy on vacation for up to 30 gays? Sounds like very poor management to me.

 

[hso]

The short version of this story is ATF did the job they were supposed to do when the manufacturer didn't.


The medium length version is - Stag screwed up, ATF noticed, but gave them a grace period to fix the screwup, and Stag still failed to correct the problem even then.

The slightly longer version it - In a routine inspection the ATF noted there were noncompliances with registration requirements. The owner's excuse was that the person responsible was on vacation. Stag had not corrected the problem after a week's grace and as a result the noncompliant receivers were seized.

ATF inspectors discovered the alleged violations last July and August during a routine check of Stag’s facilities and the inspector subsequently informed the company.

Tadeusz Malkowski, the federal firearms licensee for the Stag facility where the unserialized parts were found, told ATF inspectors that the receivers had been on the premises between seven and 30 days because the employee who serialized the receivers was on vacation, according to the filing.

The inspector returned to the facility seven days later, on July 22, 2014, and found that the receivers still had not been serialized. The ATF took a sample of 3,000 un-serialized receivers to analyze and determined they qualified as firearms.

Also, during the course of the inspection, no ATF compliant firearm manufacturing or disposition records were found at the facility. The ATF alleges Stag failed to keep records for 136 unserialized lower receivers, which were seized Sept. 3.