VCDL is standing by the story that ATF agents visited the homes of Richmond area gun purchasers. While gun show patrons were waiting for approval to purchase guns, the ATF was visiting their homes and neighbors, asking family and friends questions about why they were purchasing guns.

The biggest question has been how would the ATF pull it off logistically?

At the gun shows in Richmond, the State Police setup a NICS check room where ALL the dealers drop off their NICS forms. Later, the dealers check back to see if the NICS check has been completed and the forms ready. All BATFE has to do is to grab the forms as they are dropped off by the dealers, call in the contact info and have an officer dispatched to the house. That officer reports results of survey back to dispatcher, who in turn gives it to BATFE. The form is then approved and released to the dealer the next time he checks back. It is not unusual to have to wait an hour for approval, so the average gun owner wouldn't really be alerted to anything until he got home.

Where the disbelief seems to be coming from is that in many states, the dealer calls in the NICS check from the show floor. Thus BATFE would have to be in the booth with the dealer to get the NICS info and make the dealer hold the form until the survey results were returned. This would have also alerted dealers as to what was going on. But that isn't how it's done at Richmond gun shows.

When I first read about it, I was extremely skeptical. I was tempted to throw the bullshit flag myself, but the more the story develops the more convincing it sounds.