Unbelievable VPC hypocrisy--Help ensure VPC's shambolic FFL renewal is DENIED

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how about we each transfer a $50 jennings? maybe we can set it to where a hundred or so of em get delivered right at 4:30 pm... that way he has to log all of them in by the close of the day... im betting that he doesnt even have a bound book
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You are probably correct ... and that, by itself, should be enough to prevent renewal of his license. I don't believe the requirement to keep a bound book is optional. FFLs have to keep the bound book, whether or not they make any transfers. No transfers ==> no entries (which is a de facto admission of holding the license under false pretenses), but I think he has to have the book.
 
I just filed an IRS form 3949-A reporting VPC's tax fraud.

That should get the IRS' attention.
We'll see how the bean counters handle Sugarmann's operation of a firearms business
from the VPC's "charitable" tax exempt headquarters.
 
It's unlikely to result in the revocation of VPC's 501(c)(3) status, but it will be very difficult for Sugarmann to tell the IRS that his firearms business is generating insignificant unrelated business income, while simultaneously telling BATF that his operation isn't a sham.


If we're lucky, IRS and ATF will compare notes.
 
If we're lucky, IRS and ATF will compare notes.
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No no no no....If we're lucky, the two will fight it out until only one remains in existance. then they go after him. Otherwise, I'll accept a simple tax penalty and license pull.. I'm not greedy.
 
I encourage everyone that has 10 minutes and a stamp to print out this form, fill it out, and mail it in.

Tick the box for false exemption and failure to pay tax.

In the comments section, explain that Sugarmann is the director of the VPC (a charitable tax-exempt organization) and that he has been operating a firearms dealership from the VPC's headquarters for a decade or more. Indicate that gun sales are not a charitable activity per 501(c)(3), and that by applying for and periodically renewing his federal firearms license license, Sugarmann (and by extension VPC) hold themselves out to the public and the federal government as being engaged in the "regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the sale or distribution of the firearms" per 44 USC 921.

Conclude by indicating that, at best, the VPC has likely failed to report the unrelated business income necessary to justify maintenance of the FFL. At worst, the VPC is not a not a charitable organization at all--but is a a sham intended to evade income taxes related to Sugarmann's gun business.

It also wouldn't hurt to print out a copy of Sugarmann's EZFFL entry and staple it to the form.


The more complaints the better!!
 
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no matter how you cut it its fraud in two counts,(1)BATFX,(2) IRS.many FFL holders have had their business destroyed and lives ruined by the ATF on same grounds.maybe atf does not want to bother him.because they agree with his aims.WOULD YOU WORK FOR THE ATF??:fire:--:banghead:--:cuss:
 
I encourage everyone that has 10 minutes and a stamp to print out this form, fill it out, and mail it in.

Tick the box for false exemption and failure to withhold tax.
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What about the box that says "Do you consider this taxpayer dangerous?"
 
I think the best "activism" course of action here is to let as many anti gun "peons" know about this as possible. There would be nothing better then the organization's constitiuents and contributors turning on themselves. Of course, I think the logic that they would use to explain it is the same, as when Bloomberg was trying to bust FFLs for straw purchases. They will claim "See how easy it is to get a license, in DC AND I don't even have to have a real business. Anyone can do this!"

I think the impact of making the "followers" doubt the higher ups would be much stronger, then him just losing his FFL he doesn't care about quietly. Of course, there's always the chance that he is using the FFL to arm a private military for when they do decide to try and take our guns. I would be interested to see alll the firearms that have gone through his license. Is that publc record?
 
Anyone for lodging a complaint with the IRS?
First the FFL--next the 501(c)(3)!
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I'm all for holding this guy accountable. I just don't see how his nonprofit organization is involved. It appears to me that the licensee is this individual and not an organization. I don't have an FFL so I don't claim any expertise. Can somebody explain that to me?

Thanks.
 
What about the box that says "Do you consider this taxpayer dangerous?"
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Excellent point Fletcher. Everyone needs to check block "c.".

This is well justified indeed. I heard him say he has many automatic assault rifles at his house. He has stated these guns are capable of accurate controlled fire from the hip and capable of killing large groups of people quickly. He was bragging how these were the same guns used by the DC sniper.

He also keeps saying how guns have only one purpose: "To kill". Dangerous? I'd say he is a total nut.
 
Josh Sugarmann is the founder and executive director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC), a national 501(c)(3) educational foundation working to reduce violence in America (www.vpc.org). He is the author of two books, National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower & Fear and Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns. His articles and op-eds have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and Washington Monthly.

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I just don't see how his nonprofit organization is involved.
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Which further begs the question: why does the head of that particular organization have an FFL not linked to that organization? With the BATFE long cracking down on anyone who has an FFL without an actual brick-and-mortar posted-hours for-profit business, why would someone devoted to opposing such business have exactly such a license without such a business in the one city which has practically no demand & allowance for such business?
 
Josh Sugarmann is the founder and executive director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC), a national 501(c)(3) educational foundation working to reduce violence in America (www.vpc.org). He is the author of two books, National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower & Fear and Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns. His articles and op-eds have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and Washington Monthly.
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Exactly. It always the ones that are the most against a thing that are in the closet. Just like the preachers who scream about the sodomites and are closet homosexuals and whoremongers all along. I am thinking he "protesteth" too much.
 
Which further begs the question: why does the head of that particular organization have an FFL not linked to that organization? With the BATFE long cracking down on anyone who has an FFL without an actual brick-and-mortar posted-hours for-profit business, why would someone devoted to opposing such business have exactly such a license without such a business in the one city which has practically no demand & allowance for such business?
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Not practically... there are zero gun shops in DC.

Of course, I think the logic that they would use to explain it is the same, as when Bloomberg was trying to bust FFLs for straw purchases. They will claim "See how easy it is to get a license, in DC AND I don't even have to have a real business. Anyone can do this!"
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Yes but without the false pretense of a government agency to hide behind he will have little cover.
 
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how about we each transfer a $50 jennings? maybe we can set it to where a hundred or so of em get delivered right at 4:30 pm... that way he has to log all of them in by the close of the day... im betting that he doesnt even have a bound book
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No, bad idea. Very bad idea.

A FFL dealer is not obligated to receive a firearm that they did not order or are not aware is on the way.

When you set up for a local dealer to receive a transfer for you, you are required to inform the dealer first and he has to agree to accept the transfer.

Arranging to send "unsolicitated" firearms to a FFL dealer without that dealer's knowledge can get you in trouble.
 
The second link is much better, the Red's link is just a ATF slam fest, no call to action, unlike right here I wonder what TFL is doing.
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considering that reds is in the hole upwards of $100k for fighting a revocation order from the ATF... AND THEY HAVENT EVEN BEEN TO COURT YET...

i would think it is understandable why they dont like the ATF
 
I understand that, what I am saying as that instead of trying to stop Sugarman they are speaking of something else not related to the over-all scope of the posting.

This is well justified indeed. I heard him say he has many automatic assault rifles at his house. He has stated these guns are capable of accurate controlled fire from the hip and capable of killing large groups of people quickly. He was bragging how these were the same guns used by the DC sniper.
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Can We use that one?
 
I just forwarded this information to all of the NRA State Associations with the exception of AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, IN, IA, KY, ME, MI, NV, NC, ND, TN, WA, WV who had no e mail address listed.

I also contacted Alan M. Gottlieb of SAF & Keep & Bear Arms, Alan Korwin GunLaws.com, Gun Owners of Vermont, Montgomery Citizens for a Safer Maryland, Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws, JPFO, Students for the Second Amendment, Peoples Rights Organization, Pikes Peak Firearms Coalition, Second Amendment Club, SCOPE, West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Pink Pistols, Champaign County Rifle Association, Grassroots North Carolina, Amendment II Democrats, Orange County NY Shooters, Gunsafe, The Madison Society, Foundation, Liberty Belles, Gun Owners of America, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Black Man With A Gun, Gun Owners of Vermont, Second Amendment Sisters, Armed Females of America & a few others
 
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