I got a certified letter today. It informed me that the 4473 I filled out at Wal-Mart when I bought a 10/22 was incomplete.
I was pretty skeptical--I have friends in the business and I've heard the horror stories, so I'm overly cautious when I fill them out.
Anyway, after about 15-30 minutes of waiting at the sporting goods counter for the proper manager to be found and bring the form, she showed up.
She pulled out the BATF squawk sheet and it said something about question 19 which is on the dealer portion of the form. The BATF had dinged them for failing to answer a question about the NICS check.
Of COURSE they hadn't answered it, they hadn't done an NICS check, I've got a TX CHL permit which bypasses the NICS. Which was stated as plain as day in the NEXT line of the form.
The manager stated that the BATF had come and and run them ragged auditing the books and wrote up a ton of infractions, mostly nitnoid "errors" or minor incompletions (such as failures to write out words and using common abbreviations instead) on the 4473 forms.
I can't see how it is possible that the BATF auditor didn't see that I had a CHL--the very next portion of the form (from where he found his "error") stated clearly that I had a CHL and listed the permit number.
It sounds to me like they're trying to shut down Wal-Mart gun sales by picking them to death with BS "infractions."
Your take?
I was pretty skeptical--I have friends in the business and I've heard the horror stories, so I'm overly cautious when I fill them out.
Anyway, after about 15-30 minutes of waiting at the sporting goods counter for the proper manager to be found and bring the form, she showed up.
She pulled out the BATF squawk sheet and it said something about question 19 which is on the dealer portion of the form. The BATF had dinged them for failing to answer a question about the NICS check.
Of COURSE they hadn't answered it, they hadn't done an NICS check, I've got a TX CHL permit which bypasses the NICS. Which was stated as plain as day in the NEXT line of the form.
The manager stated that the BATF had come and and run them ragged auditing the books and wrote up a ton of infractions, mostly nitnoid "errors" or minor incompletions (such as failures to write out words and using common abbreviations instead) on the 4473 forms.
I can't see how it is possible that the BATF auditor didn't see that I had a CHL--the very next portion of the form (from where he found his "error") stated clearly that I had a CHL and listed the permit number.
It sounds to me like they're trying to shut down Wal-Mart gun sales by picking them to death with BS "infractions."
Your take?