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rob223
I had the ATF get a hold on my son looking for me regarding a purchase of a gun part. Not sure how or why they contacted him. He got their info and passed it on to me. The ATF agent was from SD? Any way, I made contact with him and it was regarding a purchase I had made on another site (e#%&) of a pistol slide with barrel several months ago. The person selling it had worked for them in the confiscation room and had snagged some items that were to be destroyed. Apparently thinking they wouldn't miss them and sold several items (like my purchase) on one or more sites. He stated I wasn't in trouble, they needed to retrieve said item from me. As luck would have it, I had recently sold it myself changing my mind on what I was doing with it. Bad part was he had actually showed up to retrieve it from me, only to find I no longer had it. Gave them their info and was told if I don't hear anything else from them. It was a done deal and they were able to now intercept the item. Was also still able to pull up my purchase info and confirmed that was the person of interest selling the items. Fun day!
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  • Knifecollector
    Stealing and selling gun parts from the ATF who are paying you to destroy said parts. How could that go wrong ? :D
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  • montanajoe
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    :o:o:o
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  • yoshmyster
    Looks like this was intended as a new post anyhow.

    I reckon just because he was working for free during the government shut down dude had to eat :D .
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  • Warbirds
    Wow! I heard about that!

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3156688002
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  • sxsnuf
    Devil's advocate here.
    The guy's taking gun parts slated for destruction, and putting them back into the marketplace.
    There, they can be put to the use for which they were intended.
    Who EVER manufactured a firearm hoping it would be destroyed in some atf furnace?
    While he may have been enriching himself by "skirting" some ridiculous atf regs or policies, which of us hasn't secretly kinda wished we could do the same? :o
    Even once?
    In a certain sense, he's sorta my hero!
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  • mrmike08075
    Back in the gunshop days we had a lahti pass through that ended up being part of a large lot of guns supposed to be melted down and destroyed by the Philly police...

    Turned out they discovered several guns listed as being confiscated during criminal activity and destroyed were showing up again in there data base - including a Philly cop shot with a gun that had been listed as destroyed...

    There were a number of higher end pistols like lahtis and Luger's that had made it into the hands of collectors.

    It turned into a big mess - we had sold ours and the buyer had sold it as well...

    They were substituting scrap metal of the same weight - some cops got pinched for being involved...

    It happens.

    Mike
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  • mogley98
    Sad part is you are out the money on a purchase like that and out the item too.
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