New gun control: Shut down shops

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New gun control: Shut down shops
Store says feds confiscating licenses for inadvertent trivia
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The government is using paperwork errors as small as the abbreviation of a city name to shut down some of the nation's longest-serving gun shops, and 2nd Amendment advocates fear the right to bear arms will mean little if there's no way to obtain a gun.

"No good deed goes unpunished," Larry Pratt, of Gun Owners of America, told WND while confirming that as recently as 15 or 20 years ago, there were 250,000 licensed gun dealers in the United States.

Today, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told WND, there are 108,381, and if more cases involving dealers such as Red's Trading Post of Twin Falls, Idaho, develop, that number will plummet quickly.

Ryan Horsley, a spokesman for Red's, which has been in business 71 years, said the store has been battling over its license because of rules infractions such as a missing poster for more than six years.

He's launched an online petition asking Congress to intervene and halt the "blatant targeting of law abiding dealers."

http://www.petitiononline.com/redstrad/petition.html

It also seeks a "fair, constitutional and speedy appeals process" and has attracted thousands of signatures.

His company also has a federal lawsuit pending against the ATF over its announcement that Red's firearms dealership license was being withdrawn.

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[T Durdin]

This story is worth the read and quite disturbing. It never fails to amaze me that things like this are going down and a lot of gun owners don't see the noose tightening.

We really have to buck up and defend the 2nd Amend. or one day it'll be gone for good. I think the loss of 70-80% of ffl licensee's since the mid-90's is cause for concern, especially if the tactics used to reduce their ranks are so arbitrary and capricious.

[RandomTask]

Originally Posted by T Durdin

We really have to buck up and defend the 2nd Amend. or one day it'll be gone for good.

Buck up and stock up!

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Originally Posted by T Durdin

It never fails to amaze me that things like this are going down and a lot of gun owners don't see the noose tightening.

a friend of mine at work was telling me about his uncle who had to close his gun shop in South Dakota because of similar problems he continually had with the ATF...