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Folks,

You all may be worring about something that is fast becoming a tempist in a teapot.

My wife has an antique business as a sideline and we do several antique shows a year around Texas. We've had these people from the Comptroller's office show up on several ocassions asking to look at our sales tax permit and sales records to see if we are properly collecting the correct state sales tax. We are always courteous as are they and they usually appologize for bothering us when they are finished and go on their way. Very professional.

If it's unusual for them to show up at gun shows it may be that they didn't feel before the Obama surge in gun buying that the traffic at shows would yield enough citations to be worth while attending in an official capacity. The antique business is a fruitful venue for fraud and shady dealers to practice a little seight of hand. It makes since that the Comptroller's office would send their officers to where they were most likely to catch some miscreants. That may be why they are unusual at gun shows.

That said, they don't wear tactical uniforms at antique shows. So maybe they did want to intimidate. Just some food for thought