Visit from the ATF?

**bogey1** · May 2nd, 2016, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by Wilson222

Aside from exercising your rights, what is the benefit of not allowing them in to look at your guns? I understand without a warrant they are not allowed to come in, but if you're not doing anything illegal it's probably going to be easier just to go along.. in the unlikely case you get visited, of course.

Aside from being a LEGAL activity, its none of their damn business what I am doing LEGALLY.

**BallisticSheepDog76** · May 2nd, 2016, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by bogey1

Aside from being a LEGAL activity, its none of their damn business what I am doing LEGALLY.

+1

**Grey Bearded One** · May 2nd, 2016, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by BallisticSheepDog76

Some FFL's are a lot more forthcoming with that information than others. I have heard the reason for this is that the ATF specifically tells them not to warn people to "not" buy multiple pistols at once, as this is one of the ways they actually catch "bad guys". Whether or not that is true - I have no idea.

My ATF inspector told me that before the advent of the "one gun a month" laws, the multiple purchase forms were very useful in identifying straw buyers.

**markshere2** · May 2nd, 2016, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Wilson222

Aside from exercising your rights, what is the benefit of not allowing them in to look at your guns? I understand without a warrant they are not allowed to come in, but if you're not doing anything illegal it's probably going to be easier just to go along.. in the unlikely case you get visited, of course.

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**Grey Bearded One** · May 2nd, 2016, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Wilson222

Aside from exercising your rights, what is the benefit of not allowing them in to look at your guns? I understand without a warrant they are not allowed to come in, but if you're not doing anything illegal it's probably going to be easier just to go along.. in the unlikely case you get visited, of course.

Well, that's one way of looking at it. Sometimes it might make sense but once you let them in, everything they see is fair game.

There used to be an ATF guy who was famous for making semi-auto guns go full auto. So he'd fiddle with your 10/22, get it to double, and then you'd be arrested. Everyone knew that he did this but the rationale in the courts was that since this guy could do it, so could the gun owner and that was good enough.

**Her9852** · May 3rd, 2016, 01:27 PM

If they visit be polite . They just want to make sure your not straw purchaser .
Could be worse they could put you in research several times for no reason .