Mr. 16 Gauge. I'm not a gun dealer nor do I play one on TV. let me give you my experience with the BATFE although at the time it was just BATF. I was living i a small country town in the mid 1980's. and was pretty friendly with the owners of the local hardware store which sole fireams. Aometimes, when I had nothing better to do I hang out and shoot the breze with the owners and sometimes look over whatever new guns came into the store. I'd been looking at a 6" S&W M66 .357 mag. for a while and was trying to figure out how I was gonna pay for it and justify it to the better half. Iwas truly a want and not need thing. Well, one day while I was there these two guys, obvious strangers in that small town one one dude gloms on that M66. So he pulls out his wallets and when asked to hid ID, it tiurns out he has a California driver's license and we're in the state of Nevada. A big no no thanks to the 1968 gun control act. His buddy says, I'm from Nevada so let me buy the gun for you.
Red flags go up in my mind and I tell the owner not to sell him the gun. That would br against that 1968 law. The two dudes jump on my case and tell me to mind my own business. I looked them in the eye, said "F" you and tell Pete the owner to put the gun on my bill. THose dudes were pizzed. They start telling me I'm obstructing justice and all that crap and I look them in the face and tell them to do their worst. It would have been easy to prove I'd been considering buying that gun for a couple of weeks and had just decided to do it. When the store owners asked the two to leave they refuse so the Sheriff was called, they still refused and two BATF guys went to jail for trespassing.
Needless to say I kept a low profile for a few days.
To me, doing those straw man deals is nothing more than entrapment, and I don't give a damn that some Supreme Court judges said otherwise.
That 1968 gun control law is nothing more than the law Hitler got passed in Germany to keep the Jews and others from owning firearms. One Senator Dodd who was working with the Nuremberg trials found a copy, had it translated, loved it so well the he and his buddy Emmanual Cellers rammed it through the Congress and that buffoon LBJ signed it into law.
May they all be residing in hell.
Yes, I feel that strongly about one thing. The BATFE should be abolished. There's no provision in the Constitution for a federal police force of any kind.
Paul B.