SA Gun Dealer Takes On ATF

Gun Dealer: Bureau Overstepping Boundaries

Jennifer Dodd, KSAT 12 News Reporter


POSTED: Friday, August 26, 2011

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio gun dealer has filed suit in federal court against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms claiming the bureau is overstepping its boundaries.
Alex Hamilton, a San Antonio gun dealer with 10-Ring Precision Inc., has files full of records from every gun he's built, modified or transferred over the last decade.
"We have to jump through hoops and do gobs and gobs of paperwork," Hamilton said.
Last month, that required paperwork became even more arduous after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives added rifles to the list of guns requiring extra paperwork.
The new rule requires keeping specific records when gun dealers sell two or more rifles to the same purchaser within five consecutive business days, a task Hamilton said is an hour-long process.
For years, the bureau has required gun dealers like Hamilton to keep these type of records on handguns, which he's done, but he said now they're asking him to keep the same type of records on certain rifles.
Hamilton said that was the last straw for him and other gun dealers.
"The multiple sales of handguns had not done any good. It is a onerous burden on all ... gun dealers, as far as the paperwork goes," Hamilton said.
Marc Willis, a ATF spokesman in Washington D.C., wrote in a statement, "There is nothing new or onerous about multiple sales reporting. The Bureau will vigorously defend its authority to collect information about multiple sales of certain rifles from federal firearms licensees in the four states along the southwest border."
Hamilton has filed suit in federal court. Currently the bureau is fighting for a change of venue to Washington D.C.

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