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FBI Doing Gun Roundup To Try To Solve Tom Wales Murder July 15, 2003 By Michelle Esteban SEATTLE - Gun owners say the FBI is rounding up pistols in a nationwide effort to solve the murder of Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor from Seattle. It's been 19 months since Wales was gunned down in his Queen Anne home. The feds are looking for Makarov pistols -- a special kind of gun that may have been used in the killing. Wade's Gun Shop in Bellevue describes it as an inexpensive, but "very reliable" pistol. According to "Mak" owners, the FBI is...

Gun used to kill prosecutor is focus of massive search By Steve Miletich Seattle Times staff reporter FBI agents are conducting an unusually sweeping search for a customized gun used in the killing of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Wales, according to the owner of a Minnesota arms company and sources familiar with the investigation. The gun, an Eastern European-made semiautomatic pistol called a Makarov, had been fitted with a replacement barrel that leaves telltale marks on bullets. The search, one of the most laborious gun sweeps in FBI history, is taking place in all 50 states, as agents track down...

FBI seeking all Makarov replacement barrels The FBI is conducting a nationwide campaign to seize, and ballistically fingerprint, all Makarov 9 mm replacement barrels manufactured by Federal Arms Corp. Anyone who has purchased a barrel from FAC may receive a call from the FBI, asking that they "voluntarily" surrender the gun and the barrel so the FBI can fire two rounds through it to take a ballistic fingerprint. This appears to be part of the investigation into the homicide of Thomas Wales, an Assistant U.S. Attorney who was murdered in his Seattle, WA home in October, 2001. Wales was also...

I just heard on a local news broadcast that the murderer of US Attorney Tom Wales has been caught, and he's NOT a discgruntled gun rights advocate, as Wales' contemporaries suggested. The murder occured in Wales's Seattle home last year. You can download the LA Times Magazine article that parrotted these slanderous accusations here (.pdf format): Article: Tom Wales Fought for Gun Control. Maybe He Died for It. ========================================================= This is a Washington State TRT press release on this subject: Tom Wales Murder Investigation by Washington State Tyranny Response Team A general release to the media, Seattle PD, and FBI:...