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So let’s say you have a cordial, long-standing relationship with your local sporting goods emporium. You buy all your stuff there – guns, ammo, supplies. Been dealing with them for years. Over the decades, you’re into them for some serious coin, and they know it. Which is why, as one of their best customers, you’re treated like family. (Not like MY family mind you – but “family” in the Norman Rockwell sense of the word.)

You buy that 30.06 you’ve had your eye on for a while. Later that week, you get to thinking that it might be a good idea to check out those series 4 Glocks for home defense. Can’t be too careful. So you buy one. No worries, you hand over your CHL and the store does another instant check, which you pass with flying colors. You head home. A few days later, you get a knock at your door.

A couple of guys that look as if they stepped right out of Men in Black greet you from behind their Ray Bans. They’re from the ATF, and have some questions for you as to why you bought more than one firearm in such a short period of time. You wonder, “why are these guys bothering me, an upstanding citizen?” This thought is followed shortly thereafter by “What business is it of theirs how many guns I buy – or own,” and “How in the Sam Hill did they know about my recent gun purchases?”

Nice. Warrantless, forced/coerced searches. Intimidation. Threats. All in day’s work over at Jackbooted Thugs ‘R’ Us, but the home delivery angle is a new wrinkle. The “softer side” of the ATF? Hardly. Here’s the kicker:

This is all based on a directive from the federal government that is completely outside of the law and unconstitutional. The law that would have required gun dealers in border states to report sales of two or more semi-automatic rifles to the ATF was “stripped entirely from the text of the regulation” when it came up for a vote in Congress on April 15, but as part of the Obama administration’s dictatorial zeal to accomplish its agenda outside of the law, the program is going ahead anyway.

The federal government is enforcing a law that was never passed. Click link for entire article.

1 posted on 11/16/2011 1:30:35 PM PST by mojitojoe
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To: Las Vegas Ron; manc; Candor7; Travis McGee; LucyT; rodguy911; bushpilot1; little jeremiah; ...

ATF ping, and this is happening in states OTHER than the ones discussed in the article.


2 posted on 11/16/2011 1:33:47 PM PST by mojitojoe (WH says potus didnÂ’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: mojitojoe

Step 1. Step outside your home and close the door.

Step 2. Ask for the officers’ ID. Write down their names and numbers.

Step 3. Ask if they have a warrant. If they can’t produce one, tell them that if they don’t leave, they’re trespassing and you’ll call the Sheriff.

Step 4. NOW if they don’t leave, I’d think you have legal cause against them, even personally.


7 posted on 11/16/2011 2:37:58 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mojitojoe

it’s sickening pal and don’t expect our pro cross dressing , pro homo, pro liberal media to go on about this even thought the very same Govt is gun running to Mexican cartels.

Which reminds me. Remember when the Mexican President came to DC and he and others in the Dem party and white house complained about guns coming from America and how they called for gun control.

Two years later we find out it was this admin selling those guns and not a peep from our crap we call the media.


8 posted on 11/16/2011 2:41:11 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman. I HATE OUR BIAS LIBERAL CORRUPT MEDIA)
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