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ATF supervisors seem to be clearly emboldened by the current administration as well as the virulent anti-gun sentiment in Congress and the mainstream media.
There is so much wrong with the concept of federal agents (and shame on the state trooper who would accompany them) trespassing, unannounced, on a fishing expedition on private property, requesting to view someone's legally acquired private property, with no reasonable suspicion or probable cause, no warrant for search or arrest, no criminal charges filed...
If anyone here does not have a problem with this, one has to wonder about commitment to the concept of the right to keep and bear arms as well as the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.
Finally, these types of actions are more like check-in-the-box, law-enforcing theater actions -- clearly not effective, and apparently, done more for show.
One would think that with all the technology available, a federal agency could come up with stealthier, more effective strategies to prevent or investigate straw purchases -- and above all, strategies that might actually be able to be justified under our Constitution.
There is so much wrong with the concept of federal agents (and shame on the state trooper who would accompany them) trespassing, unannounced, on a fishing expedition on private property, requesting to view someone's legally acquired private property, with no reasonable suspicion or probable cause, no warrant for search or arrest, no criminal charges filed...
If anyone here does not have a problem with this, one has to wonder about commitment to the concept of the right to keep and bear arms as well as the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.
Finally, these types of actions are more like check-in-the-box, law-enforcing theater actions -- clearly not effective, and apparently, done more for show.
One would think that with all the technology available, a federal agency could come up with stealthier, more effective strategies to prevent or investigate straw purchases -- and above all, strategies that might actually be able to be justified under our Constitution.