[Blurb2350]

The article doesn't make clear exactly why this guy was targeted, but he's been surveilled for about two years. Evidently he does a huge online business. Perhaps he's been caught in some sort of financial finagling, or selling to buyers Big Brother disapproves of. The involvement of the IRS suggests $$$ is involved; the ATF was for "backup." And yet they didn't confiscate any of the owner's financial records. They took only the 44?? forms that purchasers are required to fill out and submit -- they confiscated every last one of them.

[curious7]

Hope he had at least photo backups of every one of the forms, so he is able to prove they altered them, if they go that route.

[Smokin' Joe]

The 4473 will identify the purchaser and the firearm purchased, right down to the serial number. What it will not do is say how much the firearm sold for.

There is no imaginable reason the IRS would need or be able to use that information. This may be just because the BATF is not allowed to build a database of gun owners, so the IRS is doing it instead.