Funny enough, that was the specific case I was thinking of, but I didn't realize he was the only fed to ever get whacked.
His case is somewhat well known in the gun community, because the ATF got the purchase records for the company that made the aftermarket barrel that was used and went in person to every single buyer on the list to get their barrel to do a ballistic test on it.
In every comment I've seen from people who claim to have been contacted, they had either already sold the barrel or complied, so I don't know what happened to those who refused, but legally the ATF shouldn't be able to get a warrant just because you happen to be one of thousands of owners of the same type of barrel that was used in a crime (not that the Constitution is even a thing they care about).
As I often say, no matter how much you hate the government, you don't hate it enough, because that gun barrel fishing expedition alone undoubtedly cost millions of dollars in man hours for one person killed, when expend more than the most token effort if you were to be killed.
Funny enough, that was the specific case I was thinking of, but I didn't realize he was the only fed to ever get whacked.
His case is somewhat well known in the gun community, because the ATF got the purchase records for the company that made the aftermarket barrel that was used and went in person to every single buyer on the list to get their barrel to do a ballistic test on it.
In every comment I've seen from people who claim to have been contacted, they had either already sold the barrel or complied, so I don't know what happened to those who refused, but legally the ATF shouldn't be able to get a warrant just because you happen to be one of thousands of owners of the same type of barrel that was used in a crime (not that the Constitution is even a thing they care about).
As I often say, no matter how much you hate the government, you don't hate it enough, because that gun barrel fishing expedition alone undoubtedly cost millions of dollars in man hours for one person killed, when expend more than the most token effort if you were to be killed.