Now why would the Federal Inspector hot-foot it over to the state AG to report these fire-arms when he had proper federal liscensing for them?
And he's got some property issue in court too.
I can't help but think the purpose of this legal harassment is to get him to give up property that someone else wants. Wear him down or bankrupt him with legal costs.
Or is my tinfoil hat on too tight?
In California, that is a distinct possibility -- this outfit will brazenly violate Federal civil rights, knowing that most of the time their target will not have the resources to fight it and that the judges in the state are sympathetic to the gun goons. It happened to me many years ago, and it was not pleasant.
In my case they underestimated us and we were able to accumulate strong evidence of gross 4th amendment violations and falsification, and we also had activist friends in high places. This after an illegal search of the house AND a stand-off with agents on the front lawn. Somewhere up the phone tree was a friendly pack of high-profile attack lawyers and politicians who launched a blistering assault on the chain of command pro bono and threatening very public civil suits if they didn't back off. The goons walked away, but it is quite something else to be on the receiving end of it, and it has definitely colored my view of the world.
Nothing ever came of it, though the lawyers told us to get the guns out of the state ASAP in case the goons decided to escalate.
You are wearing the tinfoil hat correctly.