Please READ WHERE THE F##$%^ ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN AT!!! There is NOTHING that you can believe about any gun dealer from anything written by the Compost. What several of us are trying to 'splain to you is that we don't really disagree that you have to go along to get along. THAT is not the point.
You are naively trusting the WaPo to give you objective, factual information about a gun dealer and his business. That will historically not ever happen. Like I said before, this guy could be a Saint and the WaPo and BATFE would make him sound like Capone's right hand gun supplier. That's all we're trying to point out to you.
Just the fact that YOU, as pro-gun, pro-2nd Amend that you are, are falling for their negative reporting about this guy is telling. If they can make YOU fall for the eeeeeevil gun dealer story, think about what happens when some sub-80 IQ liberal, socialist soccer mom reads how this eeeeevil gun dealer is supplying half the East coast with unregistered eeeevil gunzzzzzz. They would hang him in a heartbeat. And vote remove the 2nd Amend. - fer the chilrun...
This is exactly why I will not watch the national snooze programs and will only ocassionally watch the local teevee snooze media-- (only for the whether you know, the Whether guys who need to stick their head out the window to determine "whether" its raining or not). They are the biggest propaganda machines for the left, liberal socialists. They slant their stories, they leave out facts (if they ever got them), they distort everything to their liberal, socialist agenda. And YOU fell for it.
No, I'm not a raving, paranoid conspiracy lunatic. I just can see beyond their krappy™ "reporting" and slanting of the stories. It's become so obvious to me that if the WaPo said the sky was blue, I'd go outside to check to make sure. Because based upon their historical accuracy, their chance of being correct is vanishingly small. And that's on a relatively objective, well known fact. Take an emotional leftist agenda like gun grabbing and they are always incorrect and without accurate facts.
So please, pay attention to the man behind the curtain. Don't rely on the smoke and mirrors that the liberal left use to blow smoke up YOUR skirt.
That's all several of us were trying to point out.
All the best.
I feel sorry for this guy and all the other dealers who are honest but sloppy bookkeepers. That doesn't change what the guy's going to be put through. He could have avoided all this by keeping his books in order - STEP ONE. Everything else is noise in the wind.
One of the cop shops I used to work at went out of business last year. A friend of mine there was kept on for several months *as the only other employee* until all the decades' worth of firearm records could be organized and boxed up. It amounted to several large pickup truck loads, and all the boxes had to be accurately labeled as to contents. It took months of hard work to do this. The owner of the defunct company could have put on an attitude and just left the stuff in the old building. Since he didn't want to be hauled into Federal court and prosecuted, he put in the time and money to gather up and turn over the records as the BATF laws require. He won't be hauled into Federal court - because he complied with laws he knew up front that he was going to have to comply with.
It doesn't matter in the slightest if this ex-cop-shop owner liked it, believed in it, or approved of it. It only matters that he complied with the requirement to turn over those records or face some serious Federal prosecution. It's a requirement that every FFL holder has. Fail to comply, get ready for a rough ride.
There's better ways to fight the battle against us gun owners than trying to mount a successful defense after getting caught with a multitude of violations.