More likely it was a sting from the beginning.
How do you tell if somebody is a federal informant? He’ll explore your willingness to violate federal firearms laws.
Didn’t President Zer0 and Eric Holder let arms go to shady characters in Mexico too? What’s the difference? When does their prison sentence start?
To continue doing what this guy did after his nice BATFE visit... bizarre. Just how hard does someone have to be hit with the proverbial 2x4?
Is this post patriot act law?
It should never be ANYONE but the bank’s responsibility to report large cash transactions.
As with civil forfeiture apart from any actual conviction (and then limited only to specific fines as defined by law) these things need to be done away with.
The biggest drawback of entering into a life of crime is that your business associates are very untrustworthy.
Sounds like he was competing with Eric Holder in arming Mexican drug gangs, and DoJ didn’t like the competition.
But I don’t have much sympathy for folks that break the law chasing money.
Meanwhile, Eric “The Red” Holder, architect of “FAST & FURIOUS”, walks among us, a free man.
I remember a similar thing happening many many years ago in So California and quickly hushed up.
The FEDs raided an unlicensed manufacturing concern in California that was churning out “clean” sub machine guns for sale in South America.
According to rumors at the time the web of intrigue allowing the illegal manufacturing of these extended clear to Johnson’s White House.
You probably did not hear about it as this raid took place about the same week as Bobby Kennedy was murdered.
Wonder how many others are turning out illegal weapons like the Norse did in WW II.
I can’t feel sorry for the guy. If he didn’t know what he was doing he isn’t smart enough to play with firearms to begin with.
65? At least he’ll Medicare.
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This does not happen in a free Constitutional Republic such as ours. It will be complete when we arrive at the Cashless Society. When no one can buy or sell without informing and implicitly getting permission from the government then all other freedoms are carefully monitored and circumscribed privileges, too.