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Feds needed 8 years to shut down Skagit gun shop

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Feds needed 8 years to shut down Skagit gun shop

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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