I covered them here. They’re Idaho’s oldest gun shop and the ATF is bringing them a world of hurt over an immaterial amount of clerical errors. Today, they are in the press:

A gun shop here is going national with its fight against the federal government.

Ryan Horsley’s family-run gun store, Red’s Trading Post, is possibly the oldest gun shop in Idaho. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stripped Red’s of its license March 5. A federal judge upheld ATF’s decision last week.

Horsley has gone onto the airwaves, protesting a perceived “attack” against the Second Amendment, which he says underlies the ATF’s motivation for revoking licenses.

Horsley’s media debut came April 8 with a local TV commercial. Last Tuesday, he interviewed on Jack Blood’s Deadline Live, a Texas-based nationally syndicated radio talk show.

The facts Horsley refers to are a nonprofit group’s report that shows an 80 percent decline in gun shops since 1994 and a Shooting Sports Retailer Magazine report that found ATF license revocations increased 600 percent in five years.

Since 1993, the number of federally licensed gun shops in Idaho has dropped 54 percent, from 2,627 to 1,189. Some dealers attribute the decline to tougher licensing rules and increased competition from large retailers like Wal-Mart and the Sportsman’s Warehouse.

Here’s their website and here’s some info on the case, and here’s a link to a petition.

Posted in uncategorized on April 10th, 2007 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |