Australian making silencers in Texas in legal limbo after ATF raid

By Lee Williams

Australian citizen Peter Brennan, 51, had his Texas gun shop shut down by the ATF after he was found making suppressors that satisfied Texas law, not federal. (Photo courtesy Peter Brennan).by Lee WilliamsPeter Brennan, his wife Jacqueline Shaw and their eight-year-old son Archie Brennan will never forget the day the ATF raided their Texas gun-parts shop, which is located in northeast Texas near the Oklahoma border.“We pulled up to our gun shop in an old GMC truck and all these cars surrounded us,” Peter Brennan told the Second Amendment Foundation. “They had seven cars and a load of tactical guys jumping out. We didn’t realize what was happening. We hadn’t done anything wrong?”They agents even tried separating the family.“They kept trying to yank my son away from his mom,” Brennan said. “These agents — some wearing man-buns — were trying to act as hard as nails. A lot of people were watching. They handcuffed me and put me in one of their cars.”“You know why we’re here — not by accident,” one of the agents told Brennan.“That’s debatable,” Brennan replied, as they tore his shop apart. “Like you guys don’t make mistakes. Nothing in the shop is illegal in Texas.

Source: The Gun Writer