The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives continues its harassment assault on Ryan Horsley of Red’s Trading Post in Twin Falls, Idaho. For two years inspectors have been conducting inspections of the gun shop hoping against all hope they can find something that will force the closure of the shop and for what reason?
As Ryan states in his latest blog, “Enough is Enough”.
I am still offended at the waste of taxpayers money to try and find SOMETHING…ANYTHING! In the mean time this has gone on for over 2 years now, cost us $115,000 in attorney fees with no court date in sight, involved 7 Inspectors, 2 Investigators, an Area Supervisor and a Special Agent. This has cost tax payers hundreds of thousand of dollars to try and shut us down for .4% that they contend are willful. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
What is also interesting is that Ryan points out that while the inspection was going on, someone(s) from the Department of Justice was monitoring his blog site.
During the visit which lasted from about 9:30am-3pm, we got upwards of 79 US Department of Justice hits on our website (ATF serves under the DOJ, so there IP addresses come up as DOJ). One visitor sat on my website for nearly 4 hours and 2 others sat there for over 5 hours. 8 Different IP Addresses visited our website in total today.
Ryan is asking for some help.
I ask everyone to contact the US Department of Justice; Office of the Inspector General and click on the button that states “REPORT WASTE, FRAUD OR ABUSE”. This is YOUR money that is being wasted and these are YOUR freedoms that are ultimately being destroyed by the ATF’s agenda of shutting down gun dealers.
Tom Remington
