No, that includes catagory errors. The number of errors is higher. It's sloppy and careless. If you can't look at every sales form and make sure every single one is filled out, there's a problem. There's also a problem if the background check boxes are not filled in, or no paperwork is created for a transfer back to the distributor. This is really simple paperwork. Also, that's 10000 in eight years, and the count is for recent violations. That's 3.4 guns/day. Tell me handling 3.4 pieces of paper/day is an onerous and tough thing to accomplish.
"most of these arbitrary BATFE infringements shouldn't even exist,"
The Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate commerce. This guy's involved in commerce, and the regs are much less extensive and bureaucratic, than even ditchdigging, or roadcrew work.
"don't be too happy about this guys business going down the tubes."
I never said I was happy. The guy should have taken care to clean up his op after the first audit. Maybe he did for awhile, but reverted back to his old ways.
Per Red's statement in post 74 the error rate was "less than" 1%, so you're probably talking close to 100 errors. As I noted in the last post if the paperwork is that onerous, 3.4 per day for Red as you note, the BATF would be happy to keep the records for us all.