February 16th, 2007 by SMiles
ARCHIVED: Deadline Live 2-13-07
If you missed my segment on "Deadline Live" last Tuesday, it has now been archived. Go to Real Radio Archives and scroll down to the 2-13-07 show. Select Hour 2 and listen. The host Jack Blood and I discussed the government's thuggish raid on the antique store Cowboy Cabin in Whitefish, Montana (which I wrote about on this blog earlier this week. During the show Alex Jones joined us and added his own insights. It was quite a show. Be sure to check it out.
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February 13th, 2007 by SMiles
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| “Cowboy Ron” Turner stands in Cowboy Cabin, his antique store in Whitefish. The store was recently raided by the Montana Department of Justice’s Gambling Investigation Division which confiscated several Old West gambling items, saying that the items, valued at $77,000, were unlicensed gambling equipment and having them is against the law in Montana. “Some of these things are over 100 years old. These are not gambling devices. These are antiques. This never is, was nor will be a gambling establishment,” Turner said. Chris Jordan/Daily Inter Lake |
During the raid, one agent picked up the dice cage and said, “This is going to look great on my desk.”
MackWhite.blogspot.com - On January 31, the Department of Justice’s Gambling Investigation Division (GID) raided Ron’s store. Two agents (later identified by the Whitefish Police Department as agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms [BATF]) confiscated items they said were unlicensed gambling devices.
Ron explained to the agents that the items—two roulette wheels, two punchboards, and a dice cage—were antiques intended for home décor and personal collections. In fact, even if someone wanted to use them as gambling devices, they were too old and fragile for that purpose—also too expensive. The most prized item, for instance, a roulette wheel/table over 100 years old that was used on the set of the television series Gunsmoke, is valued at over $18,000. The total value of the collection is over $77,000.
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