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Originally Posted by iseeyou
You can be sure that a sponsor is complaint only if they have been through an actual (and perhaps recent) 2257 inspection and passed. Anything less than that means they may not be totally 2257 compliant (even if they have docs and claim they are compliant).
2257 regulations sometimes change. It's not so hard to be unintentionally out of compliance (by reason of ignorance).
How many 2257 inspections happened since Obama? Anyone know?
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There have been zero
publicized inspections since Obama took office, and zero since a 6th Circuit judicial panel declared 2257 unconstitutional. The panel was later overturned by the en banc 6th Circuit court, but to my knowledge there have been no 2257 inspections since that development.
It's possible that there have been inspections that simply haven't been covered in the press. I sort of doubt it, though, just because word of the previous inspections spread pretty quickly.
The last inspections I'm aware of took place in Florida in September of 2007.
My understanding is that the 6th Circuit case (now known as
Connection Distributing v. Holder) has been remanded to the district court for trial.
Meanwhile, the FSC has renewed its challenge to 2257, an effort that is now being led by Mike Murray, the same attorney who is handling the Connection case.
The FBI/DOJ might have decided to take a "wait and see" approach to the whole issue, pending adjudication of the cases in which the statute is being challenged, but so far as I'm aware, there's nothing currently preventing them from picking up 2257 inspections at any time they wish.