Posted on 10/08/2024 11:46:30 AM PDT by CFW
Aaron Horwath of Kenai, Alaska, was acquitted by a jury of his peers on September 27 on a federal charge of dealing in firearms without a license. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) charged the owner of Gator Guns Inc. last summer on the allegations that he was selling guns from his store despite the agency having revoked his Federal Firearms License (FFL) years earlier.
The ATF revoked Horwath’s FFL in 2020 due to what the agency claims were “willful violations of federal firearms laws and regulations,” accusing him of failing to record hundreds of firearms sales transactions between 1982 and 2018. Aaron Horwath’s attorney, Steve Wells, says the errors were not willful violations but clerical ones that went unnoticed until the ATF switched to electronic records in recent years. Before that, the agency had never inspected the gun store owner’s records for the nearly four decades he was in business.
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Wells made his argument successfully in a trial that began at about 4 PM on Thursday with jurors returning a “not guilty” verdict around 9 AM the next morning.
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Obligatory BATF should be a convenience store comment.
Acquitted, but likely financially destroyed.
yay!
‘.......shall not be infringed....” (!)
“‘.......shall not be infringed....” (!)”
Still lost his FFL prior to this.
One could argue that the requirement to have an FFL is itself an infringement.
It’s time to make the BTAF a convenience store 🏪 chain ⛓ and not a government department.
“One could argue that the requirement to have an FFL is itself an infringement.”
That was my point.
A great Alaskan jury did it’s part. Shame it had to go that far.
Who was the idiot prosecutor who thought he could get a conviction in Kenai, AK?
Right after getting credit for another day’s Federal Jury pay, another payment for one more day in a hotel, and another day of meal money.
For a retired person, the money is real good for Federal Jury duty.
How much did this cost Mr. Horwath both financially and emotionally? That’s the real crime and no one will be held accountable.
Yes! Exactly! That’s the true crime and no one will be held accountable.
I did that, the B**** “Enfiorcing” unpublished “Rules’ was not amused.
BATFE is now engaged in a Pogrom to eleiminate all small dealers.
But Wal-Mart, etcv., can have hundres of real violations and only get a stern talking to.
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