ATF: Store that sold guns to Adam Lanza's mom had hundreds of violations

[marmar]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found more than 500 violations of federal firearms regulations at the Connecticut gun store that sold two guns found at the scene of the Newtown elementary school massacre, but didn’t yank the store owner’s license until after the massacre, records obtained by The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News show.

Among the "willful violations" found from January 2010 to July 2011 at Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor, Conn.: Store employee, Krystopher Dibella, who sold the Bushmaster XM15 rifle used by school shooter Adam Lanza, "sold ammunition on at least two occasions” to a man "he had reason to believe was a felon.”

It is illegal for a felon to possess guns or ammunition.

There is no record that Dibella, who sold more than 2,900 guns after federal investigators became aware of the alleged transaction with a felon, was ever criminally charged despite an ATF criminal probe in 2011. The number of guns comes from the store’s sales records. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20130411/NEWS07/130411049/Adam-Lanza-Sandy-Hook-Elementary-Riverview-Gun-Sales

[Hoyt]

1. All those law - abiding, responsible gun owners and profiteers.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Why am I not surprised?

To hear the humpers tell it, this sort of thing never hasppens.

[hack89]

5. It happens all the time - dirty gun dealers are a common source of guns for criminals

that is why cracking down on the illegal gun trade would do more than anything else to limit the flow of guns to criminals.

Instead of an AWB, Diane Feinstein should introduce a bill quadrupling the size of the ATF. It would save a lot more lives.

[sendero]

3. Which proves..

.... that enforcement is incredibly lax. Clearly this store should have been shut down long ago.

[frylock]

4. why even bother investigating these shops or setting up buys if they're not going to follow through?