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austinrealtor wrote:

30-30 wrote:First, I do disagree wholeheartedly with the tactics being used here. I also have been to the Saxet shows, and was absolutely appalled at the number of illegal aliens in there buying guns. I saw guys at tables hollering "no papers" in Spanish to groups of them. Saxet turned a really blind eye to all this going on, and was asking for this kind of treatment. It sucks that the guy who took over for Saxet seems to be the one getting bit for things that happened before he was there.

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Furthermore, it is not the job of a gun show promoter (Saxet or any other) to monitor or enforce any gun sale laws within a gun show they are promoting. If law enforcement wants to enforce these real laws that are on the books like not selling to felons and illegals (which I personally think they SHOULD enforce) then by all means they have the authority to do so within any gun show. But don't blame the promoter unless you have PROOF that the promoter willfully encouraged or did not report illegal gun sales in his show.

This is exactly correct. Saxet is not an FFL dealer. The dealers have exactly the same legal responsibilities whether they're dealing at a Saxet show, a Texas Gun Shows show, their brick-and-mortar store, or via their local classifieds. This is true whether they're FFLs, or private sellers. The gun show promoter has zero legal responsibility for the conduct of vendors. Matter of fact, they can't be responsible, per ATF regulations that state the FFL holder is always responsible. The gun show promoter might be found civilly liable in a lawsuit, but that's a different matter.