Legally Arming the Domestic Criminal Terrorist, those buying, for possible acts of, and those selling illegal weapons, in this case with serial numbers wiped clean!
Gun Dealer Case Sheds New Light On Hutaree Anti-government Hatred
A Michigan based firearms dealer indicted this week on an unrelated federal gun charge had sold about half dozen weapons to members of the extremist "Hutaree" militia group that was plotting to assassinate law enforcement agents, a federal law enforcement official tells Declassified.
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The hatred of ATF, of course, is nothing new. In the years before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, fear and loathing of the agency helped fuel the militia movement. The anti ATF passions were egged on by the National Rifle Association, which famously denounced ATF agents as "jack booted government thugs."
Calling others 'jack booted thugs' while running around just like 'jack booted thugs'!!
Priest, 52, came onto the ATF's radar screen in July, 2008 when he attended a Michigan gun show and sold a Remington 12 caliber rifle with the serial number altered or obliterated, according to the law enforcement official. The customer then alerted local police who tipped off ATF.
The ownership or sale of a gun with an altered serial number is a federal crime and one of major concern to ATF: It makes the gun untraceable in the event it gets seized in the course of other criminal investigations, ranging from routine street crimes to sophisticated drug trafficking conspiracies.
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There also seems to have been other reasons for the Hutarees to have taken an interest in Priest's case. Priests' 24 year old son, Jason, who had worked at Gun Outfitters between 2007 and last year, had been arrested in January 2009 after local police responded to an complaint of assault by a member of his girlfriend's family. They discovered in his apartment an arsenal of weapons that included an AR 15 semiautomatic rifle with no serial number, a suspected silencer, ammunition, a tactical vest with spare magazines, and camouflage clothing. Many of these items were packed into a black bag, referred to as a 'go bag' for combat, according to a sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors filed last month.
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As the Detroit News' Egan reported, federal prosecutors have outlined an apparent relationship between Jason Priest and the Hutarees: After Jason Priest was arrested, Hutaree leader Stone and his son Joshua approached Walter Priest and offered to break his son out of jail. Walter Priest rebuffed the offer, prosecutors have said. -->-->-->
And these that follow that direction claim they're the defenders of the Constitution, it's Laws, and the Country!
And the responsible, competent and mature adult gun owners stay quietly on the side for fear they'll loose they're choices while some of them even fight the choices of others!
And now, On the Arizona 'Nazi' Like State Law
Lest we not forget what's going on in Arizona as well as other parts of the Southwest.
U.S. gun dealers arming Mexican drug cartels
PHOENIX, Arizona — The Mexican agents who moved in on a safe house full of drug dealers last May were not prepared for the firepower that greeted them.
When the shooting was over, eight agents were dead. Among the guns the police recovered was an assault rifle traced back across the border to a dingy store here called X-Caliber Guns.
Now, the owner, George Iknadosian, will go on trial on charges that he sold scores of weapons, mostly AK-47 rifles, to smugglers who supplied a drug cartel in the western state of Sinaloa, fueling the gang warfare in which more than 6,000 Mexicans died last year.
The Mexican authorities have long complained that American gun dealers were arming the cartels. This case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the United States promised Mexico two years ago that it would clamp down on the smuggling of weapons across the border. -->-->-->
Gun Dealer Accused Of Selling To Cartels
Mar 9, 2009 In Phoenix Monday, a gun dealer went on trial for supplying assault rifles to Mexican drug gangs who are locked in a bloody war with authorities -- and each other. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports on a case that's being watched closely in both the United States, and in Mexico.
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"Firearms trafficking to Mexico is a huge problem," says Phoenix ATF agent William Newell. "Drugs go north, guns come south."
George Iknadosian is accused of being a top gun-supplier. When government agents raided his Phoenix gun shop last May, they found hundreds of weapons allegedly destined for Mexico. He's now on trial, accused of knowingly selling more than 700 guns to so-called straw buyers - U.S. citizens who buy the guns legally and then turn them over to a trafficker. -->-->-->
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