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Feds needed 8 years to shut down Skagit gun shop

By Associated Press
Published April 28, 2014 4:00am ET
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Feds needed 8 years to shut down Skagit gun shop
Prospective buyers, above, preview guns for sale at the James G. Murphy Co. auction of Kesselring Gun Shop inventory in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., April 22, 2014. The shop, seen below, was a fixture in Skagit County for decades but had failed for years to comply with federal regulations. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mark Harrison) | Mark Harrison

BURLINGTON, Wash. — It was 2005 when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives discovered that a Skagit County gun shop couldn’t account for nearly 2,400 weapons.

Nevertheless, eight years elapsed before federal authorities shut it down.

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