The homeowner agrees to bring out an unloaded firearm for them to check its serial number. The homeowner had bought seven firearms since January, according to Armed American News.Īfter asking the trooper and agents for identification, which they show, the homeowner is told by the authorities they do not have a search warrant. The second agent then says, “We can look at them and write which ones you just bought, so we can save a trip from coming back.
There’s an email from the federal side saying, ‘Can you make sure this guy’s got his guns.’” The trooper offers that they can wait, but the homeowner says he is fine, but that he just did not expect this visit by authorities. I noticed you were stopped in Philly, though, with one of your guns?” “The idea is that when you purchase more than two guns at a time it generates a multiple sales report, and it comes to us, and we have to check them out,” the agent says. The first agent reassures the homeowner that he has done nothing wrong, and they are asking for serial numbers of his firearms because he made more than two gun purchases. One of the things, indicators, we get is someone making a large gun purchase, and then a lot of times we’ve been there and ‘Oh, those guns got taken.’” The trooper then says, “The reason we’re out here is, obviously, gun violence is at an uptick… We’ve been having a lot of issues with straw purchases. The first agent confirms that is what they want, and the second agent says, “That’s it. The homeowner appears puzzled and asks if “that’s it.” “We can go out to your foyer here, check them out, write the serial numbers, and we’re out of here,” the first agent says. The homeowner responds that the guns are in his safe. SEE ALSO: House panel to take up assault-weapons ban legislation Do you have them with you by any chance?”Ī straw purchase, a felony, happens when someone purchases a firearm for another person who cannot legally buy a firearm on his or her own. “All I’m doing is verifying that you have it, you got two different purchases. One ATF agent responds that they are part of a task force investigating straw purchases. All three men are armed and wearing tactical vests identifying their agencies.Īfter the homeowner asks the men, “Can I help you?” The two videos show the resident answering his door and being greeted by two ATF agents and one Delaware State Police trooper. The incident surfaced at a time when the House Judiciary Committee is marking up an assault weapons ban bill, the first of its kind since a similar bill expired after 10 years in 2004. SEE ALSO: Supreme Court’s pro-Second Amendment ruling fuels gun rights groups to target bans, age limits
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