Comments on: A Weaponized ATF Was Too Busy Shutting Down Legitimate Gun Dealers to Bother With a Stolen Rifle and a Falsified 4473 https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/atf/a-weaponized-atf-was-too-busy-shutting-down-legitimate-gun-dealers-to-bother-with-a-stolen-rifle-and-a-falsified-4473/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: buddhaha https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/atf/a-weaponized-atf-was-too-busy-shutting-down-legitimate-gun-dealers-to-bother-with-a-stolen-rifle-and-a-falsified-4473/comment-page-1/#comment-25973 Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:22:39 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=21335#comment-25973 I don’t see why the ATF should “take over” the case.
I agree that they should file charges (evidently against a number people) for filing a false 4473, but all of the state theft charges should remain in the state court system, where they belong. “Embrace the healing power of ‘and’.” ; state AND federal charges.
The ATF is too big for its britches, why give it more authority than it has?

]]> By: John in Indy https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/atf/a-weaponized-atf-was-too-busy-shutting-down-legitimate-gun-dealers-to-bother-with-a-stolen-rifle-and-a-falsified-4473/comment-page-1/#comment-25894 Sat, 08 Mar 2025 04:07:52 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=21335#comment-25894 Not a new occurance for the ATF. It seems that there needs to be a political angle before they are willing to do law enforcement.
Back in the 80s, when I was an asst Mgr at a gun store, a Deputy friend was helping me sort 4473s on New Years Eve before we went out, and he noticed transfers on 8.guns to a person he knew professionally to have.been committed to a mental institution, and who had falsely affirmed the opposite.

The next week, I called ATF Criminal division to make a report, and was told to report it to the local cops, because they didn’t care / have the resources to prosecute a lay-the-papers down convicton.

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