ATF and Virginia State Police- NOT your friends or mine.
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CNSNews.com is reporting the following story about ATF along with the Virginia State and Local Police of trying to shut down legal gun shows through alleged intimidation of gun buyers and sellers.
Annette Gelles, owner of gun show sponsor Showmasters.us, told Cybercast News Service that at least 30 agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) along with nearly 500 Virginia State Police, Henrico County Police and Richmond City Police officers were assigned to the ATF operation targeting her gun show on Aug. 13 and 14 at the Richmond International Raceway and Fairground Complex, outside Richmond, Va
I may only be speaking for myself but if I was to go to a show and saw that many Agents, officers etc. I would turnaround and head home. Guilty conscience? No, It doesn't matter if it was a Star Trek convention, than many police tell me something went wrong and I should leave-NOW.
While normal attendance at her two-day show is nearly 4,000, Gelles said she attracted approximately 2,300 the weekend of Aug. 13 and 14, costing Showmasters.us more than $7,000.
And this isn't even the worst part. Police actually Broke the law when they
"They did something else, which is highly illegal," Gelles charged. "They did something called a residency check."
Gelles explained that, when gun dealers took the paperwork to the Virginia State Police on-site office to complete the background checks on prospective buyers, ATF agents copied the names, home addresses and telephone numbers of the applicants.
According to the complaints he received, Van Cleave said officers were dispatched to the homes of the prospective gun buyers to speak with family members, asking for example: "Gee, did you know your husband was going to a gun show today? Do you have his cell phone number? Did you know he was buying a gun?"If people weren't home they, in some cases, went to neighbors" to ask the same questions, Van Cleave said.
"I'm not an attorney but, I'll tell you what, in my opinion that would be a violation of federal law," Van Cleave said. "To go off on a fishing trip with that information, much less sharing information like that with neighbors, there's no way that's legal."
These government officials whose salaries you and I are paying are supposed to protect us not oppress us. Scary... Very Scary
Read the whole story HERE
Can you imagine how much of a fuss would be raised if peoples' free speech was intimidated like these gun buyers were?