The terribly under-resourced and under-staffed ATF makes these occasional busts, imagine what's out there. Imagine what they don't have the manpower to uncover.Edward Borra, owner of Ed's Firearms on 429 Mountain Ave. in Berthoud, was indicted on Aug. 20 and arraigned in U.S. District Court in Denver on Monday. He was charged with nine counts of supplying a firearm to a felon and three counts of receipt or possession of an unregistered firearm.The indictment alleges that Borra knowingly sold and disposed of firearms and ammunition to people convicted in a court of crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. Nine occasions stemming from May 21 through Aug.10 were detailed in the court documents.The indictment also alleges that Borra was in possession of a multitude of shotguns that were not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.Ed's Firearms was closed on Friday, with merchandise cleared out of the store.
What do you make of those shotguns? Does that mean he received them from some other source than a bona fide gun manufacturer? What could that be?
What do you think would motivate a licensed FFL guy to sell guns to convicted felons? Surely there's enough business out there among the legitimate buyers. What do you think?
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"The terribly under-resourced and under-staffed ATF makes these occasional busts, imagine what's out there. Imagine what they don't have the manpower to uncover."
ReplyDeleteOMG we need MORE laws, OMG we don't have resources now, we need MORE money, OMG, somebody's not following the law, we need MORE laws, OMG, we"re short staffed now because of all the laws, we need MORE money.
Looks like a vicious cycle and where does it end? I have a better solution, end the NFA, and the taxpayers of the US won't have to support a bigger government agency. Instead of having ATF agents sitting around the office all day long stamping paperwork for transfers and suppressors, they could be out there doing real work.
"What do you make of those shotguns? Does that mean he received them from some other source than a bona fide gun manufacturer? What could that be?"
Anyone can make a short barreled shotgun, it's just supposed to be registered and yes, that means that he didn't receive them from a class three dealer. Chances are there's a confidential informant someplace in the picture that produced the shotguns.
"What do you think would motivate a licensed FFL guy to sell guns to convicted felons?"
Greed, or a confidential informant, or both.
OR, a different theory would be that the FFL got his FFL for the sole purpose of providing firearms to the illegal market.
Here I thank the members of Congress that regularly reduce the funding for the ATF and the approval of a permanent director of said bureaucracy. As others have said many times, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
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