If the FFL holders began fighting with the Jack Booted Thugs, they’ll simple close them down. All transactions stop, all repairs are stuck in the store, no ammo sales.
This discussion has been going on for several decades now, and the ATF has been baiting the RKBA community with the same nonsense at least since the Clinton administration. The libertarian streak that runs through the RKBA community always provokes a reflexive outrage, but the fact remains that, like it or not, the Feds and in many places, the local authorities hold the cards. The ATF would LOVE IT if an FFL cracked and tried to "arrest" an agent "in the performance of her duties". Their reaction would make their outrageous treatment of the January 6 protesters look like a sunday picnic.
Going rogue, with one individual making a physical stand against the concentrated power of the federal government in the current environment simply goes nowhere good. There might be a civil claim eventually with these sorts of transgressions, though finding a court to allow "standing" would be difficult, and certainly there's a political demand to be made of the elected Republicans.
The Republican congressional delegation needs to feel the pressure, it can't be business as usual from here on out.
Trying to go it alone will just lead to the RKBA movement being picked off, one FFL at a time.
Thank you
I agree 100%.
Well said.