The
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is actively
issuing directions banning private sales of guns without licenses
at gun shows in Texas, despite there being no law to justify
such demands.
A caller to the Alex Jones show brought attention to BATF notices
handed out at the entrance of theTexas
Gun And Knife Show, on North Lamaar, in Austin
this past weekend.
The flyers (pictured below) state that anyone selling a firearm
"will be asked to comply with" conditions including
operating through a licensed FFL dealer.
The notice also states that "Selling firearms in the parking
lot will not be permitted."
"The lady at the front desk used her 'mommy voice' to
get everyone's attention." Scott from Austin told The Alex
Jones show, noting that the owners of the private building where
the gun show was held were contacted by the APD and the BATF
and directed to hand out the notices.
Scott also told listeners that a petition in protest of the
directions was being handed around at the show.
Other attendees posted the flyer on web forums. One poster
noted:
"Here is a public notice from a gun show in Austin, Texas
this weekend. Do any fellow Texans know of any law changes that
took effect recently that make person-to-person gun sales illegal?
Has anyone else seen similar notices?"
"It was not handed out in the parking lot, it was posted
at the entrance of the venue." The forum user writes.
"I spoke with the man who runs the gun show and he said
he was told on Thursday to post this (the gun show was Saturday
and Sunday). Of course, the owner of the venue has the right
to prohibit almost anything he wants on his property, but that's
not what this notice says. It says 'at the direction of the
Austin Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms' and that's what bothers me."
The direction "asks" visitors to comply with its
demands precisely because there is no law or regulation against
private gun sales.
Infowars is in the process of arranging interviews with the
Texas Gun Show operators for comments on this issue.
Watch Alex Jones cover this story on Yesterday's show (begins
7 mins in):
The
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is actively
issuing directions banning private sales of guns without licenses
at gun shows in Texas, despite there being no law to justify
such demands.
