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Originally Posted by Flint
It's the "what is happening" part that I'm not getting. What is happening? All I see here is anecdotal evidence and innuendo. Convince me.
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This will actually answer both questions, if you are a dealer then they will come in and audit you. It may have been 20 years since you have seen anyone from the ATF. The first audit is the set up for "willful", they will come in and they will find violations. They will give you a warning and then after that they will continue to come in until they find violations (doesn't matter big or small). They have to prove that the violations are "willful" that is the word that Reagan and Congress put in the wording to protect dealers. The ATF has to prove that the violations were committed "willfully", most people assume that "willful" means intentional. However they have taken the stance that if you commit any violations in an audit you will get a warning and if they come back in a later audit then it is "willful", they do not even have to be the same violations.
In our case the 2000 audit was the set up for willful, we had a 2001 audit that produced not violations (however the ATF is now coming back and claiming that they found the missing violations from the 2001 audit), the 2005 audit was the audit that they based their decision to revoke our license besides the fact that we had a 99.6% success rate and the Inspector claiming that we were "one of the best small gun shops" he had inspected.