I still think it may be total male bovine excrement, but here is a bit more information about the supposed heavy hand of the ATF. Not that I'm a fan of the ATF, but I sure do prefer facts to hyperbole, even if the hyperbole is emotionally satisfying. According to this information though, it's 17 officers, not 500. Slight difference. The thing is, if they're doing straw-man checks, as someone suggested, it may not be that big a deal. After all, most of us on the pro-gun ownership side of things have often requested that instead of adding new laws we simply enforce the one's in place. Maybe they're starting to do that. Now of course, repealing a few (hundred) laws would also be a good idea. We could start with the 1998 Massachusetts law. This is the "news" report that everyone is getting the 500 number from (H/T Instapundit yeah, yeah, I know, posting from him is spitting into the ocean, but I needed to spit.)
Thursday, August 25, 2005
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Facts would be nice, but since I don't see any reporting in the MSM in any form, I guess all we have is this.
Did they really need 17 BATFE officers? And how many local and state police were there? Did they really need to park a bunch of police vehicles in front of the premises? Did they find anything? Were there any arrests.
If there were no arrests or findings, I'm going to put money down on harrassment. They may have been doing legal actions, but the methods are most obviously above what was called for from any reasonable law enforcement activity. It was a gun show not a Hell's Angels reunion.
I have to agree, without the facts this does look like a serious trolling expedition. However the information presented still has a smell to it, even the radically reduced number of 17.
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