Russell Fincher lost his federal firearms license and 50 guns in a June raid. He denies committing any crime and hopes the ATF will be held accountable.
Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey (R-Lane) said he has filed a probable cause affidavit with the Oklahoma Attorney General calling for the arrest and prosecution of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents.
Mr. Humphrey said the document is focused on agents who raided the home of Russell Fincher, a federal firearms license (FFL) holder in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, on June 16.
Mr. Humphrey said he worked with the Pushmataha County Sheriff’s office to write up a probable cause affidavit requesting that Attorney General Gentner Drummond investigate the ATF agents for extortion, terroristic threats, and misuse of their authority as law enforcement officials, among other charges.
“When you abuse your law enforcement position, I think you ought to be arrested,” Mr. Humphrey told The Epoch Times.
Firearms dealer Mr. Fincher said he hopes that the state of Oklahoma or a federal agency like the FBI would look into what happened at his home that day.
“I just want them to really investigate it,” he told The Epoch Times. “I feel like there’s no accountability for the ATF.”
An ATF spokesman would not comment on Mr. Fincher’s case. However, he said reports have inaccurately portrayed ATF’s administrative procedures.
Ashely Stephens, a resident agent in charge and the public information officer for the ATF’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, field office, said the assertion that the ATF is confiscating guns for no reason or offering to sell them back to the owners for pennies on the dollar is wrong.
“That is a mischaracterization of what happened,” Mr. Stephens told The Epoch Times.
Spokespersons for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office and the Pushmataha County Sheriff’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
