Sometimes a small staff PD tries to buy a mini gun. This guy is nuts!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/io...55197ab5fdeefe
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Sometimes a small staff PD tries to buy a mini gun. This guy is nuts!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/io...55197ab5fdeefe
"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
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Nuts in a good way, and I like it.
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So quickly scanning the article, were any of his actions actually illegal or is DOJ just grasping at straws because a peon police chiefs wants a lot of guns?
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Seems like a crime of degree not matter? Seems legal, but at an odd scale.
Should anyone who sold their Blue Label Glock to a non-LEO be worried?
The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
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ATF prosecuted a cop on the east coast somewhere for buying his father in law a Blue Label Glock.Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand
Last edited by C-grunt; 12-21-22 at 17:29.
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No dude is going to get shot in the chest at 300 yards and look down and say "What is that, a 3 MOA group?"
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He was personally profiting from his position as chief. Among other things, the article said he sold four submachine guns owned by the department and personally made 75k. If true, I’d say yeah, that’s illegal.
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ATF takes a dim views on using a FFL, especially a SOT, to simply enhance your personal collection. With his small staff PD, he went a bridge too far trying to justify his "happy switch" collection. They can go after him for a number of things, but more importantly they can revoke his FFL. If he takes a "firearms" conviction, he's done. He can never lawfully possess a firearm and his LE career is over.
Given that Iowa is not a complete NFA state (allows SBRs and suppressors, but not MGs) he couldn't associate any of those firearms with his gun biz, so he ran them through his PD but still hosted stuff like MG shoots for profit. It's going to be an easy conflict for any prosecutor.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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I buy MGs from PDs all the time. Nothing wrong with it. I hold the licensing to do the transfers and the person in charge of the PD can simply put the profits into a slush fund and be fine. Usually the money is put towards newer stuff for the PD and it sounds like he purchased enough to offset those profits.
His problems are going to be from treating the PD inventory as a personal firearm collection and obtaining weapons for the PD that he couldn't obtain with his FFL. If his FFL doesn't have a SOT associated with it, he's really toast.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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Yeah... that was kind of an ethical and legal problem right there.
"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
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Another case of "Being Stupid can Really Hurt".
No love for the BATFE and infringements on the 2A, but this guy is a F-ing moron of epic proportions.
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