Report: ATF Seizes Firearms from Amish
Dairy Farmer
Breitbart,
by
AWR Hawkins
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
1/28/2022 1:00:21 PM
Lancaster Online reported Tuesday that agents with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, (ATF) seized firearms from an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania’s Leacock Township.
The seizure of the firearms occurred earlier this month.
Lancaster Online indicates the ATF’s action revolved around the farmer, Reuben King, allegedly selling firearms without a license.
King admitted that he had sold some firearms, but stressed that they were mostly long guns that other Amish could use for hunting. He noted that he sold some to non-Amish too.
He added, “I was not dealing in handguns, positively not.”
The Blaze noted that King “[did not] advertise the sale of his guns online and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 1/28/2022 1:03:03 PM (No. 1053863)
We all knew the Amish were the source of all those guns that are killing Ubangis in Chicago and New York.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 1/28/2022 1:11:25 PM (No. 1053876)
Were they hidden behind the buggys?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/28/2022 1:12:51 PM (No. 1053878)
Technically speaking, all of these laws and regulations defining who can buy or sell guns, and to whom, are violations of the Second Amendment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 1/28/2022 1:16:05 PM (No. 1053886)
They don't bother to prosecute actual illegal gun dealers, or even Eric Holder and Boy Barry, who sold actual machine guns to Mexican drug gangs. But an Amish farmer who sounds as if he meant no wrong is an easy guy to bust and would probably not resist? That's the guy to nail. Good job keeping us safe, bonuses for everyone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/28/2022 1:24:51 PM (No. 1053903)
Get a gun dealers license idiot...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HonestDon 1/28/2022 1:28:05 PM (No. 1053912)
ATF should be a convenience store.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2022 1:30:15 PM (No. 1053918)
Total BS.
There is literally NO DEFINITION of what "engaging in the business" of selling guns is. Selling one is definitely OK, and selling 100 a week is definitely not OK. Anywhere between 1 and 100 is an INTENTIONAL gray area that ATF has long used to beat up innocent people.
They can point to NO law that he violated, I'll bet.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JrSample 1/28/2022 1:35:05 PM (No. 1053927)
Glad they are finally taking Amish gun violence seriously... you know, all those drive-by shootings from horse drawn buggies.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/28/2022 1:35:59 PM (No. 1053929)
I suspected that fingering the Amish in all of those shootings would eventually get them into trouble. Maybe now they will behave themselves.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/28/2022 1:38:12 PM (No. 1053936)
It's a lot safer and easier to arrest the Amish than it is criminals.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 1/28/2022 1:38:51 PM (No. 1053939)
Clearly the ATF has better things to do than conduct a raid against an Amish dairy farmer. But the bureau is not interested in illegal guns. Their long term goal is to crack down on legal gun owners and eventually confiscate guns from law abiding citizens.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/28/2022 1:49:06 PM (No. 1053956)
I surprised. I thought Amish didn’t do firearms. Must be a back-slider.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
padiva 1/28/2022 1:55:34 PM (No. 1053962)
I live in a nearby county in PA. A man at my church is an atty. He said that many of his clients are Amish. They trust him. He will 'prevail.'
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/28/2022 2:16:56 PM (No. 1053980)
The ATF could have, instead of this, gone to Philadelphia to go after illegal firearms, but I guess that would be too dangerous.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/28/2022 2:19:50 PM (No. 1053983)
#5; How many guns would you allow to be sold before you would require them to get an FFL? Guns are sold privately all the time here in FL and I assume most other free places.
Numbers - we want numbers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/28/2022 2:38:15 PM (No. 1054007)
that's it, all you big bad tough guys at ATF!! pick on the people most likely NOT to commit a crime while using a firearm. or better yet, NOT likely to commit a crime ... at all!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/28/2022 3:03:25 PM (No. 1054027)
Can anybody recount the last time the ATF took action like this in Detroit? LA? D.C.?
Another community of traditionally patriotic Americans getting put on notice.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/28/2022 3:29:02 PM (No. 1054036)
EVERY Farm has several guns, mostly .22's, single and double barrel shot guns, higher caliber bolt actions or lever actions used for deer. The "Modern" ones would be pump shotguns or semi-autos for ducks/geese,turkeys, JMB designs mainly. Often some from each generation, the more kids? the more guns. as the generations leave the farm and move to the cities the guns stay behind. When the old folks sell off the farm, sell off the stuff...there may be 20 guns or more in the sale, locally not bid on or only drawing single digit$ bids. I have left NY/Penn farm auctions with 20 guns I paid under $100..TOTAL for. I later sold/trade several at a time for a dbl barrel I was more interested in, then several of those for a better dbl barrel I am MORE interested in. In the end 40/50 crap guns leave me with an AH Fox, a Parker, a high grade Lefever or some Decent European shotgun that I keep. Total investment,often under$100, eventually nets me something worth several $thousand...that my Kid someday will have to decide what to do with.(I still have flintlock guns from our family farm that were stashed in a closet for generations, as were subsequent era guns no one used anymore)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 1/28/2022 3:49:23 PM (No. 1054051)
After all these jokes about the unnamed perps being the Amish, supposed criminality lands on them...
Go figure
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rochow 1/28/2022 4:15:19 PM (No. 1054062)
Reuben King you have to change your name to Levante Quanzee or some such. ATF won't bother you!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 1/28/2022 4:55:41 PM (No. 1054120)
So he sold shotguns. Even in gun hating Maryland, one can walk into a gun shop and walk out with a shotgun on the same day.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
paral04 1/28/2022 5:20:05 PM (No. 1054153)
Why aren't these brave ATF dudes at the border where the action is?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
kono 1/28/2022 5:50:10 PM (No. 1054182)
Some sarcasm-impaired ATF agent probably read some archives of this site and noticed how every article about another gang shooting had us complaining that those darned Amish were at it again...
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Well, there goes my deposit on a .50 cal. sniper rifle and scope for my spotter...i still have my Gilley suit, but ...all dressed up and nobody to kill. /s
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 1/28/2022 6:06:47 PM (No. 1054197)
Technically speaking, this is a violation of the First and Second Amendment.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/28/2022 8:08:09 PM (No. 1054294)
If you are selling some guns to a few people, it is a casual sale. If you are buying guns for resale, then you are in business, and the revenue and expenses must be reported on Schedule C of Form 1040. The government knows everything today.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 1/28/2022 9:04:34 PM (No. 1054321)
Well there you go those pesky Amish again selling long guns like flintlocks and percussion cap rifles to the violent Amish thugs---yeah RIGHTTTT
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/28/2022 9:28:47 PM (No. 1054338)
Drum roll please.... "Amish folk... the REAL Fast and the Furious!"
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Californian 1/28/2022 10:31:35 PM (No. 1054375)
FINALLY! They are doing something about the Amish crime scourge in this country! Bravo!
Next up! People who steal candy from babies!
I feel safer already
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It was just one Amish farmer who sold some long guns. Nothing to worry about.