Stag Arms Raided by ATF For Stupidity, Not Criminal Enterprise

By Bob Owens

F Troop is hinting that Stag Arms must be participating in some sort of criminal enterprise, but what I think we’re seeing here is nothing more than mind-bending levels of derp:

Federal regulators who enforce firearms laws have asked to keep more than 100 assault rifle parts seized last fall from Stag Arms, a New Britain gun manufacturer.

In a visit to Stag Arms in July 2014, agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found about 3,000 receivers — part of the housing where the serial numbers go — without serial numbers, according to documents filed in federal court.

Mark Malkowski, owner of Stag Arms, told the agent that the employee who engraves the serial numbers on the parts was on vacation, and that’s why they were still blank. The documents say the parts were still blank a week later, on a second visit. Unmarked parts were found at two locations, but only seized from one, where the company told the agent that they had been left unmarked for years.

The company has not been charged with any wrongdoing as the investigation continues.

In September, an ATF agent obtained a search and seizure warrant that allowed the agency to seize the …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms