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TFOGGER
09-01-2012, 11:31
Ed's Firearms in Berthoud...

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21445454/berthoud-gun-shop-owner-faces-felony-firearms-charges



A Berthoud gun shop owner faces felony charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly supplying firearms to felons and possessing unregistered weapons.
Edward Borra, owner of Ed's Firearms on 429 Mountain Ave. in Berthoud, was indicted on Aug. 20 and arraigned in U.S. District Court in Denver on Monday. He was charged with nine counts of supplying a firearm to a felon and three counts of receipt or possession of an unregistered firearm.The indictment alleges that Borra knowingly sold and disposed of firearms and ammunition to people convicted in a court of crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. Nine occasions stemming from May 21 through Aug.10 were detailed in the court documents.


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Aside from the blatant ignorance of the "reporter", this is interesting...
trlcavscout
09-01-2012, 11:36
Doesnt look good for old Ed! The atf hates competition.
DD977GM2
09-01-2012, 12:09
Doesnt look good for old Ed! The atf hates competition.
[ROFL1][ROFL2][ROFL3][LOL]


Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Generally you can tell most folks who should own firearms and who shouldnt.
Danimal
09-01-2012, 12:29
Well crap. I was going to go check that place out one of these days. I stopped in there a couple weeks ago and the shop was closed during business hours. I guess now I know why.
Mazin
09-01-2012, 12:45
Sounds like FFL's need to keep by the book, maybe a sting investigation?
Great-Kazoo
09-01-2012, 13:08
He only opened a few months ago.
Tinelement
09-01-2012, 13:16
I was in there once. Looked like a gun show threw up in there!
Byte Stryke
09-01-2012, 15:18
so um.. help me out here
Possession of an unregistered gun and selling ammunition to a felon?

didn't know we brought back gun registration and did BCI for ammo sales.
02ducky
09-01-2012, 15:32
Doesnt look good for old Ed! The atf hates competition.


Thats funny shit, line of ther week, pfft the month!
BPTactical
09-01-2012, 15:33
Knowingly sold firearms and ammunition to individuals that were felons and or under indictment and could have been imprisoned for more than a year(even if they weren't.)
Strike one
In possession of unregistered NFA items.
Strike two
Multiple counts of the above.
Strike three
Game over.

With him being open for a short while makes me think the alphabet crew were tipped off in regards to questionable practices.

Almost every instance where I have heard where the Feds have stomped on a FFL it could have been prevented if the FFL was on the up and up.
As noted above: play stupid games.
JohnTRourke
09-01-2012, 15:39
he didn't have unregistered NFA items (well, he might have), but he had guns in the shop that weren't in his books.

oppps, that's bad.
Irving
09-01-2012, 17:16
he didn't have unregistered NFA items (well, he might have), but he had guns in the shop that weren't in his books.

oppps, that's bad.

I was about to point out the same thing. There is such a thing as gun registration when it comes to dealers and their books.
Great-Kazoo
09-01-2012, 19:47
I was about to point out the same thing. There is such a thing as gun registration when it comes to dealers and their books.

Logged in to the bound book.,Not Registered. They do not register a gun, only verify serial numbers to the vendor invoice and check to see same sn# on the box it came in.
islandermyk
09-01-2012, 20:03
With him being open for a short while makes me think the alphabet crew were tipped off in regards to questionable practices.


[ROFL1] Just added that one to my dictionary [Coffee]
dwalker460
09-01-2012, 20:13
My friend was telling me about this yesterday. The investigators had UC's approach the owner and ask to buy a gun off the books, giving a BS story and admitting that they were a felon but getting it expunged blah blah blah and help me out man. This is what is going to be hard to make go away, selling a firearm to someone telling you they are a felon and cannot legally purchase is no bueno.