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After nearly half a century of business, Fountain Firearms of Houston closes it doors by order of the ATF

Anyone know what is going on?

geez.

ORIGINAL TEX wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:04 pm After nearly half a century of business, Fountain Firearms of Houston closes it doors by order of the ATF

Anyone know what is going on?

Any news links with information it's closed?

The old owners lost the license in 2016. I did not know the new ones lost it.

https://projects.thetrace.org/inspectio ... -0020-B1B/

puma guy wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:58 pm

ORIGINAL TEX wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:04 pm After nearly half a century of business, Fountain Firearms of Houston closes it doors by order of the ATF

Anyone know what is going on?

Any news links with information it's closed?

This is all I found.

Internal ATF docs show ‘zero tolerance’ guidelines for shutting down gun stores

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/intern ... gun-stores

Wow I haven't been there since the 90s but I was going to go there today. Online they showed a pistol in stock that I was interested in. Glad I saw this post before heading over there.

Things will get only worse under the new ATF director.

eyedoc wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:27 am Things will get only worse under the new ATF director.

ATF should not have anti gun or anti 2A people but rather people who respect the law and The Constitution. But yesterday the ATF was absolutely tone deaf, as they have been for 30 years on their botched raid in Waco. As I did then, I still feel horrible for the officers that needlessly died and for their families. But from lessons learned, the actions taken by ATF at Waco seemed to have been imprudent and reckless that led to the death of their officers as well as everyone left to the end of the siege that included women, children, and pets. In no way am I minimizing what Koresh and others did to escalate the violence. I agree with what someone here on the forum said long ago about Koresh being a wack job. Clearly the time to fight is in court, not against Law enforcement, even if they made terrible blunders. There is plenty of blame on both sides of this.

But who at the ATF thought it was a good idea to have a public memorial for Waco yesterday? Their tweet got ratio'd and then others were mocking them in other threads. It makes me wonder if they don't consider Waco a failure, but rather a warning.



https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1630694673483276289

Was there a memorial for the children and mothers who were burned to death.

Or for the people including many children and moms who were murdered by the bomb blast in Oklahoma at the federal building by idiots who felt compelled to shed more blood over Waco.

All over a guy sawing off shotguns for money.

There was a really good documentary about this whole fiasco a few years back.

I've also been to the site a few times. They have a very good information center on site. I'd definitely recommend to everyone that they make a trip there.

I have seen several posts stating the ATF has revoked it's zero tolerance policy. Have yet to see a press release or statement directly from the ATF. But this is good if true!

I wondered why they closed that store. Been there about 5 times to look around and buy a few items. Everyone was friendly and helpful. I still go to pick up food orders to go next door at a place call La Agaves Mex Rest.

I haven't been able to log on for over a year. First I've heard of this. The couple of times I trekked cross country to go it seemed like a great shop. I'm sorry to hear it's closed.

rtschl wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:38 pm I have seen several posts stating the ATF has revoked it's zero tolerance policy. Have yet to see a press release or statement directly from the ATF. But this is good if true!

https://www.atf.gov/news/press-releases ... inal-rules