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Kevin Hardy

Officials at Lake of the Ozarks won’t answer ATF questions about local gun businesses

Leaders of the largest county at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks say they will not answer questions from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about local gun businesses.

At Thursday’s county commission meeting, Presiding Commissioner Ike Skelton notified the public that the ATF had recently sent emails to county staffers asking whether four gun businesses were in compliance with local zoning and business licensing regulations.

Skelton said the county would not cooperate and read aloud from a letter he intended to send to the ATF on Camden County letterhead.

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