On June 20 last year you were sent a message on Facebook, directing you to this thread and asking you to resolve it. You didn't respond and you didn't show up here to resolve it. Why is that?
I get literally dozens of messages a day on FB, most of them spam, and I don't read them. ALL of my FB posts are set to "public" and anyone can read them and respond to them. THAT would have been the way to get my attention, but the OP wasn't on FB, didn't know that, and I didn't get the word.
You said earlier that I should have shipped the gun as soon as I got the FFL.
You are right, but the problem was that although the buyer told me his dealer had sent a scan of his license by email, I never got it. I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes people send me emails that I never receive. This often happens when the email contains an attachment. I'll give you a particularly puzzling example: Ben Langlotz, the gun patent attorney, is a good friend. He credits me with getting him interested in shooting sports and his resulting career focus on gun patent law.
Ben offered to represent me in getting unauthorized PDFs of my book (that people had posted online) taken down. He told me he was emailing me legal documentation for me to sign. I never got it. I called him on the phone, and explained that I would send him a brief email, and he could reply to it and attach the documentation. We figured that would cure the problem.
It didn't. He got my email, but I never got his reply. We were talking on the phone at the same time that we were emailing each other and trying to resolve this problem. Finally, he figured out what the problem was on his end and was able to send me the attachment. I'm not computer savvy enough to remember exactly what the cause of the problem was, only that we got it resolved.
Getting back to the case of the unhappy customer who wanted one of my 500s, the first time I ever saw an FFL from him was in the certified letter he sent me two weeks after the license had expired. He has said in the last day or two that his dealer had gotten extension letters, and that he used them to successfully purchase other guns. If he had enclosed a copy of the extension letter with the expired FFL that he sent me, I would have shipped the gun immediately instead of fearing an ATF entrapment scheme. I'm going to try to attach the photo I sent to the police and the Missouri AG after they threatened me with legal action.
I'm sorry things ended this way, but with no extension letter provided, I had to protect myself.
JR