treelogger
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Before the "crate full of Mosins" scam, there was the "OLL group buy scam". Must have been late 2005 or early 2006. A guy (name shall not be mentioned, but their current name is Lady Benjamin Cannon) bought a large number of stripped OLL lowers, claiming to resell them at no profit (nonsense). He deposited them at a local FFL, who didn't have enough gun safe space to actually store them. Since at that time the CA DoJ hated OLLs, an audit of the FFL happened that day (not a coincidence), and confiscated all these "guns" that were being improperly stored. Oops, but to be expected if you are dealing with scammers.There was a guy in the old Calguns days that pulled off this famous group buy scam.
The real problem was that the guy claimed to be employing many many lawyers to get them back from the DoJ BoF, but in reality was doing absolutely nothing. Probably because he had no money and was flat out broke (his AmEx card was overdrawn by about $50K). It took a long time (half a year or so) until a generous and competent person funded lawyers, poked the DoJ a little bit, and the lowers re-appeared. The rest is history.