1. re: #85 Dark_Falcon
That bolded stat is not correct.
Obdicut also questioned it. To the link I provided, he responded that, rather than stores closing, small “kitchen table” dealers have dropped out of the business. I confess the distinction had escaped me while I grabbed the first halfway plausible google link I saw. Point taken from you and Obdicut.
However, I presume you are not stressing that the reduction in FFLs may be closer to 80% than 90%. It’s surprising that I have not found statistics about gun store closures at all. If you or Obdicut or anyone else could point me to them, I’d appreciate it. Until that time, with respect, I concede that That bolded stat is not correct unsupported by your (jvic’s) hyperlink.
2. Btw, from where I sit in rural New England, I’m not first-blush sympathetic to the closure of those kitchen table dealers.
3. re: #87 ggt
So, The ATF’s raid on this gun-shop was justified?
Have we determined that?
Maybe Reese will claim he is being made a scapegoat. Maybe he will claim he was raided because he wouldn’t cooperate with Fast and Furious.
Twenty years ago—before the 1970s, anyway—, I would have dismissed such claims as ridiculous. Today, I wonder.