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Thursday, April 17, 2014

ATF Attempts Bulk Collection of Customer Data From Gun Stores

Agency likely creating a centralized gun registry by fiat

Barely a month after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms raided a California gun parts manufacturer for its customer data, the agency is now trying to force a Maine gun store owner out of business after he rejected an ATF agent’s demand for his customer records last year.

Despite not being charged with any crimes, Phil Chabot, the owner of Pac N Arms in Sanford, Maine, received a “notice of revocation” of his gun dealer license after he prevented ATF investigator Wayne Bettencourt from “scanning a copy of every page” of his customer records, according to Chabot’s attorney Penny Dean, who also added that the ATF has not even scheduled a hearing regarding the revocation.

“If he was really this bad person like ATF says he is, wouldn’t you have a hearing right away to revoke his license?” she said to the Portland Press Herald. “He has disputed every one of their allegations.”

“We say, ‘Show us the evidence.’”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another reason why you should never register a firearm.

Anonymous said...

Democrats/Socialists/Communists in America must be stopped at all costs. They are using the apparatus of the American Government to target it's citizens. These are unconstitutional and ILLEGAL acts.
These acts warrant prejudicial treatment against them. They must no longer be allowed to hide behind the Constitution while they are in the process of destroying it.
Any and all actions against them are warranted and should be pursued immediately to stop their anti American illegal activity.

Anonymous said...

Maybe they should focus on NOT giving weapons to drug cartels. Stop worrying about us.