[NorthFlaRebel]

They should NOT be held accountable, especially to the point of LOSING their business, for mere TECHNICAL infractions, of highly convoluted government-mandated red-tape, committed by their employees.

The employees ARE the business. Your logic is odd, to say the least. That's like saying "Publix" should not be fined for OSHA violations because the employees committed the violations or that "Mike's Bar" shouldn't lose its liquor license because Sam the bartender or Sally the waitress served underage patrons.

Also, I don't find throwing away denied applications and not performing background checks to be technical infractions caused by "highly convoluted government- mandated red tape". These two regulations are pretty much the the most important ones.

[DocH]

You don't think it's ODD, to say the least, that a longtime family business is being shut down by the federal government over, LARGELY TECHNICAL infractions of laws (created mainly by liberal gun-grabbing politicians) that are questionable at least, and unconstitutional at worst?

Our country would function quite nicely, and there'd be much more freedom - of the type created by our founders, if the BATF (and OSHA, for that matter), went away.

This guy and his family, employees, and community are getting railroaded by a bunch of jack-booted thugs using bureaucratic diktats and the barrel of a gun as their "legitimate" reason for RUINING good people's lives.

On the bright side, at least THIS time, they're not severely injuring or murdering anyone.