{"id":4493,"date":"2011-01-11T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T12:53:57","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4493","title":{"rendered":"CA1: ATF could search defendant&#8217;s FFL records on instigation of local police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant ATF agent had qualified immunity for a search of plaintiff\u2019s gun store at the request of local police. Having an FFL means you are in a highly regulated industry and have a reduced expectation of privacy in your records. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca1.uscourts.gov\/pdf.opinions\/09-2001P-01A.pdf\">Giragosian v. Bettencourt<\/a>, 614 F.3d 25 (1st Cir. 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 923(g)(1)(B)(ii), the government may conduct compliance inspections of gun shop premises without either a warrant or reasonable cause, as long as it does not do so more than once in any twelve-month period. The Supreme Court has explicitly upheld the constitutionality of  this provision under the Fourth Amendment. Biswell, 406 U.S. at 317  (holding that the \u201curgent federal interest\u201d in regulating firearms traffic outweighs any threat to gun dealers&#8217; privacy). Bettencourt&#8217;s 2007 compliance inspection of Giragosian&#8217;s gun shop was the first in twelve months &#8212; indeed, in ten years. It thus met all of the requirements of \u00a7 923(g)(1)(B)(ii).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The stop and subsequent search were valid, and any appeal would be frivolous (Anders brief). United States v. Pedraza-Bucio, 386 Fed. Appx. 822 (10th Cir. 2010) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}