Suspicious minds
The FBI sent out some flyers telling gun shops to be on the look out for suspicious folks buying guns and to report them. The NRA had no problem with such voluntary reporting. I don’t really mind voluntary reporting of suspicious behavior either.
June 28th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Since the FeeBees go to FeeBee School for a long time to learn what a “suspicious person” is, and ordinary folks don’t, there is a huge disconnect with this type of request. That disconnect results in plenty of un-warranted snooping.
Bad idea. Cops need to do their own jobs.
June 28th, 2011 at 9:52 am
Damn they got me… Except for the jihad crap and playing with large groups… Otherwise I could justify everything on that list.
June 28th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Oh forgot about the illegal weapons conversions.. Big nono. By the way why would I go to a gun shop to ask about illegal weapons??? Sounds like someone has been reading brady bunch bullshit propaganda where all gunstore owners are plotting to take over the universe…
June 28th, 2011 at 10:05 am
Had a guy yesterday ask me about buying a machine gun off ebay. It was a serious question, because he had no idea what he was asking. The guy admitted that he doesn’t know anything about guns he didn’t learn from Call of Duty.
So, new shooter report coming soon.
June 28th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Are you going to turn him in to the FBI then??? After all he must me a domestic extremist that is just playing dumb…
June 28th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Gun dealers do that all the time.
When they did it in Arizona, the cops told them to let the shady person buy the stack of guns… or else.
June 28th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Suspicious people like the ATF telling dealers to let straw purchases go through?
June 28th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Operation Tokyo Drift! I Love sequel operations.
June 28th, 2011 at 11:08 am
Does the class required for a Texas Concealed Handgun License, taken at Red’s Gun Shop in beautiful Pflugerville, Texas, count as “Interest in learning the use of hidden weapons?”
I am Spartacus!, I guess….
June 28th, 2011 at 11:20 am
“By the way why would I go to a gun shop to ask about illegal weapons???”
Because you are young and have questions.
I used to get questions like that when I slung guns across the counter.
“Interest in learning the use of hidden weapons?”
So, the feds are going to investigate every Filipino or Chinese martial arts club in the nation?
Gun stores are Strange Ranger magnets. If the feds investigated every holster sniffer, obese militia boy or every 18 year old Call of Duty combat vet that walked through a gun store door, they would have to triple the number of FBI agents.
June 28th, 2011 at 11:33 am
That New American article takes some pretty serious liberties in their description of the flyers – for example, they repeatedly use the word “demand”, yet I see no such word or implication in the flyer. I think they need to get their tinfoil hats adjusted..
June 28th, 2011 at 11:36 am
Markie Marxist sez: “Cool! If we can get private gun store owners to alienate their customers by developing a reputation for turning in their customers to the FBI for being gun store customers, we might get them to put themselves out of business, instead of us having to nationalize them! It’s always a good thing when capitalists are willing to cooperate with Marxists! Ha! Ha! All your suspicious customers are belong to us!”
June 28th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
This is quite rich.
But it’s what I would expect to hear from an organization which is housed in the J. Edgar Hoover Office Building.
June 28th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
So can I report the ATF?
June 28th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
“If the feds investigated every holster sniffer, obese militia boy or every 18 year old Call of Duty combat vet that walked through a gun store door, they would have to triple the number of FBI agents.”
And the FBI would be perfectly happy to do all that.
June 28th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Why should we report straw purchases? The ATF watched it happen, and liked it.