Posted on 02/02/2015 8:40:30 PM PST by idknuthin
I recently tried to pawn some guns for my mother, who is 72 and was need of some quick cash. An old friend is the manager of a pawn shop and ran my name though the data base to see if I could get the guns back if pawned, because I had a prior conviction of class d felony due to DWI's, and didn't want me to lose the guns. I was denied..... I received a call from the ATF, saying I wasn't in trouble but they needed me to sign some papers. I'm freaked out, I have changed my life completely from the past. Does anyone know what consequences await me?
G. Gordon Liddy I presume?
Many will tell you to get a lawyer, but the law is a huge, amorphous glob, so I would get a lawyer who specializes in firearm-related law.
“You’re not in trouble —we simply need you to sign this here, completely unimportant document...”
Man, oh man, to MY ears that just sounds exactly like Set-Up City with 20 cherries on top.
That’s what I like about FR. We get to the bottom of things real quick. Life is too short for Trolls.
I can’t believe any manager of a pawn shop would ever suggest transfering a pawned gun to a convicted felon.
But there may still be hope for you, if you can answer these questions three:
What is your name?
What is your favorite color?
Does the Colt AR-15 come from the factory with staked bolt carrier key screws?
Otherwise, you remain doomed.
Tim
i d k nuthin about no guns. Any I once had were all lost in that horrible boating accident. 300 feet of water. Ain’t no way to get ‘em back.
Or maybe it's a guerilla.
I can't tell in this poor lighting.
Sounds like a scam call to me. Someone, and maybe the pawn shop owner, tipped off the scam artist.
Sounds to me this could be one of those first and last posters.
Uummm,an attorney should be able to help.
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-PJ
Just ask your DWI lawyer. Sounds like you keep him on call anyway.
I’m guessing that if the ATF wants to talk, they’ll come to you, and come through your door at 2 AM with a battering ram and a 20-man “response team.”
They’re good with customer service like that.
I have never known the ATF to call anyone and tell them they need to come down to their office and sign some papers. This is not the way I’ve known them to operate in the past. They might show up at your door or at a pawn shop to flash a badge and inspect your records tho. I call BS....
I never get in BTZ.
Seventy two isn’t that old, why wouldn’t she pawn and collect her pawned guns back herself?
Don’t freak out...it won’t help anything and you will just torment yourself.
I agree with the others— contact a lawyer.
What is the average airspeed velocity of can unladen swallow?
Is it safe?
I demand to know the average rainfall in the Amazonian river basin.
Are you threatening me? Or my precious bodily fluids?
I must ask that you forward these queeries on to our guest,
since the cat has apparently assumed custody of his tongue.
I am a musician. My monkey is a businessman.
He doesn’t tell me what to play and I don’t tell him how to spend his money. And that is all there is for now.
(However, doom patiently awaits around the corner for the unwary.)
Needing to pawn guns tells me you can’t afford a lawyer.
There are two things a regulator doesn’t have. 1. A sense of humor and 2. Compassion.
I dunno, but since you came here out of the blue, I suspect there is a scent of ozone about you............
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