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Bullshit! If true,
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I've received (and posted up) enough stories of this happening to believe it.
I don't have any personal friends contacted, but the sources I've heard from were all reputable and trustworthy.
I believe it did occur. I also heard from one guy that he got his gun shipped back to him in good condition in about a week.
From an NRA source I'm talking with:
[i]I have been working this issue since it broke. Although we (NRA) are not speaking publicly about the sniper I am working these police "visit" issues along with ballistic gun registration issues. I'm a bit pressed but can tell you the police have obtained information on .223s from dealers (in MD after 10/1/00 most ARs are registered in MD at the time of sale). The entire effort is poorly coordinated and individual outcomes depend on the person being questioned, the law enforcement division whose list they are on and the agents themselves. >From what I'm hearing if you get local BATF or FBI you are lucky, local county police are the worst followed by out of town BATF. To my knowledge no one who refused access to their gun has been served with a warrant, even if the officer threatened to obtain one. They are keeping records of guns - that is a whole other issue I don;t have time for now and the media is on an all out turn in your neighbor campaign with no apologies. As Ken Blanchard recently said to me, "now you know what it feels like to be a Black man with a gun". He is right.[/i]