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    Quote Originally Posted by d90king View Post
    When we do nothing wrong we have nothing to fear... I am sure the sphincter tightened a little at first but it sounds like it went well in the end and that they acted professional and treated you as they should have.

    I'm surprised I haven't been visited yet... Maybe because I am in Pa and don't have any NFA stuff. YET!



    From my understanding they are concentrating their efforts in the border states. I think they even pulled agents from out of state to come down here.


    He said they are targeting private sellers at gunshows who are operating a business but do not have an FFL. The guys with a table full of "private sales". But no they didn't seem interested in spending time on guys like me. I just showed them what I had, chatted for a few minutes, and they left. Im sure the heat helped speed up the process but I didn't want them in the house with our dogs, and our twin 4 year old boys getting in the way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Artos View Post
    glad it worked out ok bro...dad is really diggin the 22


    Yeah that was one of the guns on their list...

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    Double.
    Last edited by Irish; 08-12-10 at 13:07.

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    Quote Originally Posted by d90king View Post
    When we do nothing wrong we have nothing to fear...
    Riiiiiiight... Glad everything worked out but kind of odd having pictures of relatives and military records, obviously they'd done their homework. I feel much safer now.

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    When there are stories like this, it's not surprising that they've pulled BATFE from all over to look at larger volume buyers.

    http://www.koco.com/r/24593657/detail.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by irishluck73 View Post
    Riiiiiiight... Glad everything worked out but kind of odd having pictures of relatives and military records, obviously they'd done their homework. I feel much safer now.



    The lead guy had a 1/2" binder just for me, and everything separated by tabs. So yeah they sure do their homework...


    I think they are told/trained to tell people there is no database but obviously they have access to lots of information.

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    Quote Originally Posted by d90king View Post
    ... it sounds like it went well in the end and that they acted professional and treated you as they should have.
    Riiiiight... because they showed up with records that the law states they can't keep?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Templar View Post
    When there are stories like this, it's not surprising that they've pulled BATFE from all over to look at larger volume buyers.

    http://www.koco.com/r/24593657/detail.html
    I wouldn't consider "less than 20 guns" to be high volume. How many people have more than 20 tools in their toolbox? How many have more multiple powered yard machines? How many have multiple sets of golf clubs? A gun is no different.

    If someone has two of each gun, one that's used and one in reserve, and they believe in having one of each type of gun (semi-auto rifle, bolt-action rifle, shotgun, semi-auto pistol, and revolver), that's 10 guns right there. It's really not that uncommon.

    It's control and paranoia.
    Last edited by Skyyr; 08-12-10 at 13:32.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belmont31R View Post
    I just showed them what I had,................
    If you don't mind my asking, if you left them on the porch, how did you show them your guns? I have this vision of you leaving them standing there while you went wherever and came back with a couple of guns at a time. I wonder if that made them jumpy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Templar View Post
    When there are stories like this, it's not surprising that they've pulled BATFE from all over to look at larger volume buyers.

    http://www.koco.com/r/24593657/detail.html


    Unfortunately stories like this are common, and why people get visits like I did.


    http://130.80.29.3/disp/story.mpl/me...n/7140752.html

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