" Austin police said that last year, while assisting federal agents in combating the sale of guns to undocumented immigrants, they recorded a number of illegal transactions. The repeated offenses at the site — a former Sam's Club location on North Lamar Boulevard — prompted police to refer the location to the department's nuisance abatement unit, which works with owners to reduce the number of crimes on their properties.
What a load of BS. That place was formerly known as the Crockett Center and it also hosts a large mexican market. If APD wanted to catch real criminals their "Nuisance Abatement Unit" should have been out there busting all the illegal aliens that went to the market on a regular basis conducting those "illegal transactions." Apparently THOSE "illegal transactions" were just peachy, no problem at all. Instead, they came down on the evil Gun Show and when questioned on it by the press they claimed it was just "suggestions."
"We merely gave suggestions to reduce the amount of criminal violations that were occurring at this property," Austin police spokesman Cpl. Scott Perry said. They "should not have been viewed as requirements..."
Oh yea, I am sure that is how the conversation went, just "suggestions." Well, the issue is a result of the LEO's not busting the criminal illegal alien immigration law violators they knew were regularly going to that location, so the local LEO's have done this to themselves. Had the APD been arresting the criminal illegal aliens and handing them over to ICE for deportation it is highly unlikely those very same illegal aliens would be lurking around a GUN SHOW.
The show organizer should do exactly what he said, change the location and then sue the APD for the loss of business because they forced the property owner to adopted rules for the Gun Show that violated the operator and Citizens rights and activities allowed under State and Federal law. One of the comments nailed it...
" This is "official oppression" under Texas Penal Code § 39.03. Go ahead and look it up. Because there IS A LAW against that, and the APD and ATF broke that law.
I hope the gun show promoter sues APD, the City of Austin, and ATF for violating his civil rights. The gun show owner committed no crime, was an accomplice to no crime, and furthermore the previous crimes alleged by APD to have been committed at the old Crocket Center were during a DIFFERENT GUN SHOW! That was the old Saxet Gun Show, which APD/HEB apparently successfully ran out of town. Texas Gun Show has only been using that site since November. So by linking those illegal sales to Mr. Boedeker's gun show, the APD and Statesman have effectively libeled and slandered Mr. Boedeker. Add that to the number of lawsuits this guy can file and win.
Thanks for your insight of situation. Some I knew, but parts did not.