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Dec 13, 2022Liked by Lee Williams

"After Joe Biden weaponized the ATF..."

Biden has been a gun-hater the entirety of his long, corrupt political career and he DID greatly jack up the ATF's nit-picking harassments of gun dealers, but those thugs were weaponized long before that senile old fool was illegitimately installed in the people's house.

The ATF has been a weaponized, Stalinistic pack of thugs with guns and badges almost since its very beginning. Here's the REAL history of that pack of scumbags:

https://libertarianinstitute.org/uncategorized/atf-history-bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-became-corrupt-abusive-alphabet-agency/

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The new ATF includes slightly different language regarding the purchase for the purpose of reselling for a profit:

"The last sentence of the certification statement has been changed from “I further understand that the repetitive purchase of firearms for the purpose of resale for livelihood and profit without a Federal firearms license is a violation of Federal law” to “I further understand that the repetitive purchase of firearms for the purpose of resale to predominantly earn a profit without a Federal firearms license is a violation of Federal law”."

But it still is vague enough to make you potentially in violation regardless of how many firearms you buy and sell.

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Dec 13, 2022Liked by Lee Williams

Poor bastard. You can tell from the listing, he was a firearm gatherer over a segment of his lifetime. Likely, not a collector, in the truest sense of the word. A guy like me... who has acquired guns over a number of years, now with home-safes holding an eclectic collection of benchmark gun specimens, each having their own story to the owner. None especially unique or super-valuable, just interesting in their place in the historical evolution of the American firearm. Now, at a certain age, he’s liquidating household inventory to recover his spend or, perhaps, even downsizing ahead of a move into assisted living. So, he’s “cleaning out the closets”. He may have even talked to an attorney ahead of it. Now, he’s going into “federally funded assisted living”. And his forfeited collection will be stacked in the corner of a damp concrete storage room and, later, auctioned off to a wired-in FFL who develops their business income off the misfortune of others, pennies on the dollar. The 74 yea old guy won’t recover a cent of that. A true pity. No Justice.

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Dec 13, 2022Liked by Lee Williams

Notice how the sentencing is one day over the "more than one year" threshold on Form 4473. This is an obvious over reaction by the BAFTE, you would think that they might have better thing to do like maybe gun running as in "Fast and Furious"

Situations like this one are one of the reasons I was and still am reluctant to acquire a C & R license. This crap started under Joes' former (and probably current) boss Barack, where the administration was promulgating the idea that anyone selling firearms was a de facto dealer.

Should Palmatier have ceased to sell his guns? Well obviously, yes, but having a venue at a flea market was probably not a good idea, whereas he might have had some cover if he did so at a gun show. I would not be surprised to find out that someone whined about a gun dealer at the flea market.

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Dec 13, 2022Liked by Lee Williams

Too much tenuous info about this whole thing.

I agree the ATF shouldn't go after low hanging fruit, but that's probably just the kind of person the ATF mini-empire is looking for. Not someone who would actually be good for the citizenry, just good for the annual budget requests from the dept.

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