Suspected FBI Flyer Worries Gun Store Owners

[Paslode]

My cousin mentioned this was on the news down in his neck of the woods.

I have both hands, all my digits, no burns other than from my razor, but I do have some food stains from lunch, I pay cash, buy ammo in bulk and I like accessories.


http://www.4029tv.com/print/22307123/detail.html

ROGERS, Ark. --
A flyer appearing to be from the FBI has been turning up at local gun and ammo shops, instructing employees there how to identify suspected terrorists, but some store owners say its regulations might affect more than just enemies of the state.

It instructs store owners to look out for certain customer characteristics, like insisting on paying with cash only, or purchasing large quantities of ammunition or other gun accessories.

Store owners are also supposed to look for people with missing hand or fingers, chemical burns, or stains on their clothing.

But this disturbs Jim Snow, owner of Rebel Arms and Sporting Goods in Nob Hill.

“Generally this thing is my customer base, generally the customer base of all your gun shops,” he said.

Snow said the form's definition of a terrorist is debatable.

“That's generally what a gun owner is. He's buying a bipod for his rifle, he's buying handgun ammunition, and he wants a container to keep it safe in,” Snow said.

Snow said he isn't comfortable using the form’s criteria to profile people in his shop, especially when many are longtime customers.

“They're wanting kids to turn their parents in, they're wanting parents to turn his kids in,” Snow said.

Ron Garratt from G.I. Guns and Ammo in Rogers doesn't see the point of the flyer.

“I think that's probably little bit of overkill,” Garratt said.

Garratt said all potential gun buyers are subject to background checks by the F.B.I. already.

“That form gives up their basic information, name address, date of birth, description and so forth,” Garratt said.

The FBI has the right to deny a sale if the background check doesn't add up.

Even with regulations, gun store owners 40/29 talked with said they'll always be careful about who they sell to

They also said they do sometimes have problems with customers trying to make "straw sales": people trying to buy a firearm for someone else who cannot legally own one.

[PedOncoDoc]

I thought we were trying to avoid profiling.

[Pete]

Now if a stranger came in wearing a Pakol, and asked in a strange accent for an AK and 1,000 rounds of ammo he'd be good to go.

[Richard]

There's nothing like this on the FBI's web-site and there was a similar flyer recently being supposedly circulated claiming FBI/DOJ/Maricopa County Sheriff and sent to tattoo parlors with the same kind of info.

See attchd pic.

Don't know if these are real or not - they seem phoney to me.

Richard

[Speedgod]

So now we are to be profiled by using the U.S Dollar to pay for things? WTF is wrong today! I for one, am sick and tired of using a credit card to purchase items.

But after all we Americans are quickly becoming the minority..... and so it goes.


SG

[Paslode]

I agree with Richard it looks suspect.

But it dawned on me that area does have a problem with people sitting up meth labs in vacant dwellings/trailers out in the woods, which if the document is valid that could be who they are looking for.

[Pete]

Come to find out Fayetteville has had a serial rapest for the past number of months.

Somebody made up a text to kinda' sorta' official looking with a discription of the perp and texted it out.

It's been all over the radio and other news sources that the text is not from the Fayetteville PD and they are not looking for the discribed person.

They asked people not to forward it but.................

Look for this stuff to catch on in other parts of the country.