Posted on 02/28/2010 5:56:07 AM PST by Harrius Magnus
CORNELIUS, Ore. - A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.
Brad Martin and his son, Ben, sell the Airsoft BB guns from their store in Cornelius where they’ve been in business for seven years.
The Martins said they buy their stock from Taiwan because the merchandise is less expensive. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized a shipment of 30 in October. That shipment is worth around $12,000 and the ATF is promising to destroy the entire shipment.
Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.
"With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun," Crenshaw said.
Brad Martin is furious about the loss of money, for sure, but also in what he now thinks as a loss of his time and the use of government agents to seize toy guns.
"All this manpower, all this time, all this taxpayer money, [it is] wasting my time and my profitability,” Martin said. “[Just] to seize 30 toy guns!"
Ben Martin disagrees that the toy guns could ever be considered dangerous.
"To say these are readily convertible to machine guns is absolutely preposterous,” he said. “The round wouldn't go into the firing chamber and even if the firing pin did strike the primer the gun would basically blow up in your face.”
ATF said it also seized the toys because they are missing the blaze orange tips required on all imported toy guns.
The Martins said they've received shipments before from Taiwan that were missing the orange tips and were simply asked by customs agents to drive up to Tacoma and paint the tips orange themselves. They are wondering why it is an issue now.
ATF have always been a bunch of nazi dunba$$es.
Check this out!
“’With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,’ Crenshaw said.”
TOYS CAN KILL.............(just like fascists)
Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.
An Airsoft plastic toy converted to a firearm??
What is this clown smoking and why is he working for US?
Jack
With even less work a baseball bat can be turned into a dangerous weapon! What a bunch of morons.
Yes, indeed. I think the toy store owner ought to sue those clowns into the ground. Make them look like the doofuses that they are.
I don’t like the ATF seizing toys, but how the heck do 30 toy guns wind up costing $12,000?! That’s $400 per toy gun.
I did not know that Alcohol, Fire arms and tobacco are illegal?
So we know they go after toy guns, probably shut down businesses that sell alcohol to minors, and go after smokes in the local 7-11. So when was their last BIG tobacco bust? This is a serious group with tax payer money well spent! (sarcasm off)
The Martins should consider themselves fortunate that the atf did not wait until the shipment arrived at their place of business. They would have then raided the business, seized the bb guns, and killed the Martins. The atf is comprised of individuals that are considered too whacked out to be fbi agents.
It’s time for the ATF to get it’s wings clipped! The “guns” are made from soft alloy castings, no way will they hold the pressures of live ammo.
The ATF should go after the water pistols. That’s the REAL hotbed!
Ban water pistols now!!
What is this clown smoking and why is he working for US?
He ain’t working for ME.
Jack
the real mystery here is why a toy airsoft costs 400 dollars each. I’m sure that alone didn’t pass the batfe smell test. Frankly, the batfe is one more government entity looking for work, and as we have seen in the past, they will find “work” usually at the expense of the average citizen, and the “rights” of said citizen that come from God and are under siege by the batfe.
The second amendment did not arrive courtesy of the batfe.
I’m waiting for Obama to claim that they took 30 machine guns off the streets through strong enforcement.
Government in partnership with the people.
Perhaps he watched too many episodes of McGiver in his youth.
Specially the pink, semi clear types. Why you could squirt someone in the eye with one. If we can save just one child from being squirted in the eye it will be worth it.
I was THINKING paintguns. Now those pellets are extremely dangerous, especially if you fill them with acid, or anthrax, or plague, or NITRO!
DAISY; Red Rider is next........
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