As I said up thread, he was paying full retail from GunBroker.com, and didn't seem to be selling for much more than that.
Even if he made $100 per gun, which seems high, that would have been around $15K, over a couple years. While he was making around $200K salary, in Arkansas.
Certainly nothing worth doing everything possible to get on ATF'S radar. His motive is the most suspicious thing to me.
Mzybe he just really liked the firearms scene. My guess on this is someone he thought was a friend wasn’t a friend and ratted him in exchange for something. That’s usually how this goes.
The more sinister idea, and have pictures of him at gun show tables int he reports over time, is he got caught up in a general net that’s just looking for people to bust.
Some of the quotes from the report say they didn’t know who he was at early on, but they had suspicions. That’s happens more than people want to believe. Moles, informants, agents working shows noticed he was standing out and decided to make an eample of him.