
Originally Posted by
az doug
I am not certain you understood what I meant by factual. I meant the allegations in the complaint and plea agreement actually occurred.
We are way of the OP's topic, but the importation of OKO sights, manufacture of unregistered suppressors, machinguns... was willful in my opinion. You are entitled to yours.
I must be out of the loop, but why would OKO sights not be importable?
As far as manufacturing unregistered NFA items, that happens to the big boys too sometimes. This is a sloppy paperwork issue. Granted it is more severe to not do NFA registration in a timely manner than screw up 4473s.
But here is the KEY DIFFERENCE.
It is one thing for a NFA manufacturer to make some cans and fun guns without taking care of the paperwork first for PERSONAL USE. It is of course STUPID but I've seen it plenty of times before.
It is quite another to make these items and then offer them for sale officially or unofficially. Cav Arms never did that. Lots of NFA manufacturers make R&D cans, test them out and then band saw them for scrap after recording results without ever registering them.
Again, it's a stupid thing to do. But it isn't exactly a serious crime. In all reality it was a paperwork issue. They should have been told to register them or forfeit them, that is ALL that should have happened. I can't tell you how many AZ gunsmiths I'm aware of (some of whom aren't even SOTs) who have off the books cans and DIAS. In most cases these are "in the floor" items kept "in case shit gets bad" and sometimes they get shot out in the desert. But they really aren't doing anything to contribute to criminal activity.
Is it illegal to do that? Absolutely. Is it a really stupid thing to potentially destroy your life over? You bet. But was it willful activity done for criminal purposes? Not in this case, not in most cases. And it's as stupid as prosecuting people for illegal shoe laces and rubber washers.
So perhaps that is the difference in our perspectives on this issue.
Last edited by SteyrAUG; 08-14-12 at 01:50.
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