Thread: Ares Armor halts ATF Raid, refuses to turn over customer names! It's beginning....

Support the Sheriffs that support The Constitution

Ares Armor halts ATF Raid, refuses to turn over customer names! It's beginning....

Ares Armor halts ATF Raid, refuses to turn over customer names

Posted by Matt Duncan (MD) on March 14, 2014 at 8:30am

Video at the Page Link:

In what seems like an excerpt from the Matt Bracken novel ENEMIES: Foreign and Domestic, the ATF is demanding a gun shop owner hand over all of his books, something that is illegal.
California-based gun company Ares Armor is currently fending off efforts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to seize not only their 80 percent AR lowers but also the names of 5,000 customers who bought them.
The company has filed a restraining order against a pending ATF raid on the company, which, according to Dimitrios Karras, CEO of Ares Armor, was communicated to him through his lawyer on March 10.
“I was advised that the BATFE had offered to forego obtaining a warrant if Ares Armor was willing to: (a) Hand over all of EP Armory’s 80 percent Lowers, (b) Turn over Ares Armor customer’s private information to the BATFE,” said Karras in a statement.
“In exchange for turning over our customer’s private information, the BATFE said that they would not ‘raid Ares Armor’s facilities and would not pursue ‘criminal’ charges. This made me feel as if I was being extorted,” said Karras.

Read more...

atf, gun control, patriot nation, #last_patriots, ares armor

http://thepatriotnation.net/tpnnews/...customer-names

Support the Sheriffs that support The Constitution

BREAKING: Constitution under attack as ATF ignores restraining order and raids Ares Armor

http://thepatriotnation.net/tpnnews/breaking-constitution-under-attack-as-atf-ignores-restraining-ord

TYRANNY ALERT: Obama’s Lawless ATF Breaks Into Private Business & Seizes All Customer Records (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 16, 2014, 1:31 AM

Despite a judge’s restraining order… Obama’s lawless ATF still BREAKS INTO A PRIVATE BUSINESS TO SEIZES ALL CUSTOMER RECORDS.

The owner of a California store that sells gun parts to build rifles from scratch refused to turn over his customer list to federal officials.

So Obama’s ATF broke in and took all of the customer records anyway.

This video was taken on March 15, 2014, at National City Ares Armor location.
<font color="#333333"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="font-family: inherit">

Here is background on the story from earlier this week.

FOX4KC reported:

The owner of an Oceanside store that sells various gun parts to build a rifle from scratch refused to turn over his customer list when he was raided by federal agents Wednesday.

Dimitrios Karras, owner of Ares Armor, said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were investigating their business, not for what they sell, but for the people who purchase their products.

Karras said the ATF threatened to shutter their business if they didn’t hand over the names of 5,000 customers who have purchased an 80 percent lower receiver (the base) for building an AR-15.

It is legal to build a rifle from scratch without serial numbers only if the base is manufactured to ATF specifications. The base is not considered a firearm if it’s sold separately.

A manufacturer made an 80 percent receiver in plastic with a different material and colors which show exactly where the customer can drill making it easier and cheaper to build. The ATF said it is illegal.

The ATF sent stores, including Ares Armor, letters demanding they turn over the products and names of customers who purchased them.

“They said either give us these 5000 names or we are coming in and taking pretty much anything – which is a huge privacy concern and something we are not willing to do,” said Karras.

Karras’s attorney informed the ATF to pick up the receivers Wednesday morning at their Oceanside location, but the inventory was not the issue. The store owner said he will not comply with turning over their private client list.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014...records-video/