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+1000Yes the agents of course do not set out one morning to do random stuff. No Cops do. What many can't seem to get their head around is how many agents the ATF has compared to how many guns are sold every day. When there is a boom going on many here love to post the numbers of how many BG checks are being done every day in one state. So why are agents not going door to door to these people? Because they can't. They would need to hire and army. I have seen a few idiots get in trouble with the ATF. They had to work REALLY hard to get their attention. When I hear some story that some joe sixpack bought a couple guns and they showed up? Color me VERY skeptical. One constant is people who do get their attention always say they did nothing to get the attention. For a long time people were selling solvent traps on Amazon. This went on for years. Amazon would not be selling stuff like this unless they were selling piles of them. So is there 100's of thousands of ATF agents running these all down? Sure. This is play stupid games win stupid prizes. If the ATF is showing up at your door you had to really send up some flags to get them to do so.
Average Joe following all the laws likely will never, ever, get a visit from a cop much less an ATF agent.
I've known folks with illegal weapons.
For one instance, a member at the club I shoot at bought a pistol braced gun and put a regular stock on it NEVER KNOWING that wasn't kosher. They never had anyone even question it until I did. The look of horror on that persons face still sits etched in my brain as a moment I'll never forget. I think he might have even peed a little. That is how well the ATF puts the fear of god into all of the citizens its organization oversees. He said he put the stock on it shortly after he bought it, 3 or so years before I asked him if he had any other tax stamps. Best part, he put the brace back on it and now is reaching out panicking again over all this brace ruling shenanigans.
I still remember his response.
"Tax stamp, what's a tax stamp?"