Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:57:08 -0700
From: ernesthancock@inficad.com ("Ernest Hancock")
Subject: [lpaz-govcom] Fw: BATF Raids another Gunshop in Mesa
To: marcvictor@home.com ("Marc Victor"), lpaz-govcom@egroups.com ("lpaz-govcom")
Reply-To: lpaz-govcom@egroups.com
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It begins.
This is what we have been warning all about.
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From: Richard DeStephens <r.destephens@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu <AZRKBA@asu.edu>
Date: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:36 PM
Subject: BATF Raids another Gunshop in Mesa
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Spread this far and wide.=20
Get your local media to cover this.=20
Send it to you favorite gun magazine.=20
We will be looking to set up a defense fund for this guy.=20
Stay tuned.=20
http://www.thefiringline.com/NonCGI/Forum10/HTML/007589.html=20
Here is the quote of the day from a recent Mesa, Arizona gunshop bust...=20
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The search warrent was for the book-work.=20
The ATF agent said, "We're going to take all of your guns, and you'll proba=
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not get all of them back, but you'll get some of them back. The one's that =
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logged in properly you'll get back, but if there is as much as one mistake =
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line, you're not going to get it back."=20
Mike said, "You can't do that!"=20
The agent responded, "We're ATF. We can do anything we want to do!"=20
Another agent said, "Why don't you just give up your FFL?"=20
He's alright, but the ATF removed, without care, about $300,000.00 worth of=
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guns from his shop.=20
He was left with the ones that he had on his person when they raided him.=20
They gave him a receipt for the guns that they took and claimed that there=
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were guns that had no serial numbers, including 5 Berettas. Stupid idiots. =
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weren't Berettas, they were Browning High Powers and the serial numbers wer=
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under the grips.=20
They even took the video survalence tape that records activity inside the s=
hop.=20
Now WHY would they need that? Especially if it was recording while they wer=
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doing their filthy work?=20
HE HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH ANY VIOLATION! Yet, they removed=20
anything of value that he could continue to live on.=20
He was not under arrest. They told him so. Yet, he was handcuffed,=20
photographed, and fingerprinted, and taken downtown to an interrogation roo=
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for questioning.=20
Mike knew the law better than they did. Several times the agents could not=
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agree on what the law said and how Mike was to comply.=20
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