Red’s in the news
Red’s Trading Post is the subject of a news article:
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long been the target of whimsical heckles and opinionated challenges on a local gun shop dealer’s Web site.
Now the agency can go there to find heightened criticism from a different posse: politicians, including some Republican presidential candidates.
Ryan Horsley, manager of Red’s Trading Post, checks who visits his Web site daily. He also knows ATF agents do the same.
Horsley, who is fighting the ATF over his store’s gun-selling license in federal court, has taken his battle over Second Amendment rights to another arena – the U.S. Senate.
“I don’t want people thinking they’re just doing it to Red’s Trading Post,” Horsley said about the ATF’s practices against small shop owners. “It’s what they’re doing to gun dealers in general.”
Horsley enlisted many Idahoans to protest the ATF to their senators, both of whom now say the bureau may be too aggressively pursuing gun dealers. As a result, Sens. Mike Crapo and Larry Craig put a hold on the president’s nominee for ATF director. A third senator, David Vitter, R-La., has added a third hold on federal prosecutor Michael Sullivan, giving more fodder to Horsley’s Web site.
