You better believe it! I do a "huddle" with all the dealers before the shows. Explaining that they need to do legal business. I tell them to expect everybody from dog-catcher to ATF agents. At my shows everybody is on the same page. I've always been cautious because of "the one we dare not speak his name"
I think you did the right thing. she could have been an ATF agent.
You did wright!!!!! ATF got a private seller at the Tulsa Gun Show Last weekend and shut him down. He can't sell anything at GS ever. He took what he had left and sold them to a dealer and got rid of his inventory.
Well I am good at following instructions - so I look forward to the prep session.
Not to be a tinfoil hatter here, but it sounds like you and your vendors were tested and passed!
Good on you and your vendor's vigilance.
Good on you and your vendor's vigilance.
What'd they get him for? Lucky they let him sell the rest of his stuff instead of siezing it and slapping charges on him....
Thanks for having good shows that will not be a bad example on the evening news.
Everyone keeps saying Dave did the right thing, because she was ATF. He did the right thing because what she was doing was a Straw Purchase and illegal. It doesn't matter if she is ATF or not.
Sounds like you made the right move!! Either ATF or some idiot media nut thinking she could take the law into her own hands by making US all look bad. I'm sure the camera man was in on it with her.
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