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Dux,
I don't think suspicious purchases of firearms should automatically render one a criminal--by making large purchases, the individual who purchased dozens of AKs might have given the ATF a red flag of criminal activity. The ATF now has reasonable articulable suspicion to investigate that individual and build a case.
For example, another member on this site bought 50 Mosin Nagants (bolt action mil-surplus rifles). He likes to collect them. He is most certainly not a criminal. Would you give the ATF teeth to presume criminal activity whenever one purchases a lot of firearms?
I don't know about law enforcement. But being trained in the justice system, I am always uncomfortable when someone wants to assume criminality because 'something doesn't look right.'
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Originally Posted by Lieber Code on the laws of war
"Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God."
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