[gondramB]

>.In 1997, he couldn't account for 45. In 2001, it was 133. In 2003, there were 422 firearms missing -- more than a quarter of his inventory -- including semiautomatic assault rifles, 12-gauge shotguns and Glock 9mm pistols, according to federal investigators.<<

Gosh, you would think he's be losing a lot of money losing all those guns.

[Dumpster Baby]

he called them unintentional recordkeeping errors

Having worked in the firearms sales industry myself, this excuse for not keeping records on hundreds of guns is pure BS. The record keeping is pretty much Rule One through Rule Ten in the business, and anyone who doesn't can't be trusted to have a dealer's license, plain and simple. Too bad he's in the NRA, no excuse for violating such important and fundamental rules. It's sort of like a maternity hospital losing track of who and where all the babies are.

[kingu]

90% of the violations are 'bound book' violations - it's not that there's no record of a sale or transfer, it just isn't double recorded into the bound book, which they don't appreciate.

That's a clerical error, not a 'crime.'

Alas, our 25 years of records got munched on by some mice. We offered the records to them anyway, but they didn't think it'd be useful, so we disposed of most of them. Then again, our average for track requests ran about one every year and a half. Seems that lever actions, colts and Sharps aren't typically used in criminal actions.

[Disambiguator]

Didn't a law professor named Sanford Abrams write an article about the Second Amendment quite a few years back?

Is this the same guy?

[Renfield]

"...Even if the bill is defeated, Abrams plans to use a provision in existing law to sell 700 guns left over from his shop's inventory at a soon-to-be-opened store called Just Guns, which will sell them on consignment...."

Maybe I can pick up a Vacquero Bisley there.

[goldstategop]

Gun shops are subjected to pointless paperwork and nothing has proven it deters crime in any way. The point is all those regulations are impossible to comply with because there are too many of them. We have a plethora of gun control laws on the books and they haven't caught ONE criminal with a gun he wasn't allowed to have and all they have done is forced law-abiding citizens out of business. That's wrong in a free country.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

[Oakleaf]

BRADY BUNCH COORDINATING WITH WAPO! The BBs issued a report called "Death Valley" (I am not making this up) about this situation within the last week or ten days now it shows up in the Wapo as a story. I have to get to work and could only scan the story but didn't see the BB listed.

[EdReform]

Bang

[snowsislander]

I believe that we should repeal the 1968 GCA.