#wildlife-smuggling

#wildlife-smuggling

The way the federal agents swarmed Jack Schubarth's ranch in Montana on a late-spring day in 2021, it seemed they could have been taking down an anti-government militia. It was a dry morning when Schubarth, an 82-year-old whose family owns a small-town pet store, first heard the helicopter buzzing overhead. Then came around 60 federal agents and state officers, racing out of a fleet of black vans. They searched the property, found 15 guns, and piled them on Schubarth's bed.