New gun control: Shut down shops

[glatt]

Originally Posted by redstradingpost

Glatt, Actually the 3 violations that they were being referred to were recent violations in the audit before last. The ATF has chosen to audit us several times since, the last audit which was last week produced 2 new violations:A customer not filling out the transfer date (he came in later and filled it in)A firearm that was logged in to our book was missing a digit in our acquisition book

The problem is that each time they come to audit us it generally costs us about $5,000. Here is the article from the last audit:
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/...ate/114470.txt

So as I understand it from the article, there were a handful of audits between 1980 and March 1997. As a result of those audits, the agency shut you down, but a judge stayed that action in March, so you can stay open until it works its way through the courts. The ATF is apparently pissed now and is coming back looking for more evidence against you and generally making your lives miserable. The question I have, is what did they find that made them want to shut you down in the first place? It sounds like all the nit-picking examples you list have all come since they tried to shut you down. What did they find before then? Is there a serious infraction you aren't mentioning? Or have they been nit-picking all along?