HorizontalHunter
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Yeah, seems like they really piled the crap on with that list of charges....
The more charges the longer he will be sentenced to probation when he makes a deal with the attorney general.
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Yeah, seems like they really piled the crap on with that list of charges....
As is anyone not from Massachusetts who enters Massachusetts with the intent to do anything involving guns... Including Airsoft, SuperSoakers, whatever... Even NON "gun people" know this place is FUBAR...I doubt the trafficking charges but I think we can all agree he's stupid.
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RI doubt the trafficking charges but I think we can all agree he's stupid.
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You guys are scary. This fact is CLEAR... He was a NH resident , unlicensed in the state of MA and he was selling firearms and ammunition in a MA hotel room.
If you are a NH resident selling guns in a MA hotel room you are either willingly engaged in criminal activity or you should be prohibited from possessing a firearm due to diminished mental capacity.
BEGINNING?? Remember it was a Retired ATF Agent who went around that state and told everyone that he thought would listen how the permits that were to come out of the 1998 Gun Law would allow those that held them to no longer need to go through the NICS check. So how did that work out for you. I was at one of these sessions so don't tell me he wasn't pushing that bullshit, His name, William Pickett, You folks remember him now???
If You look at the reported list of charges, "Trafficking" is the "Buzzword Charge" that brings ATF into play, all the other charges appear to be "State Charges.
Pickett was the guy in charge of FRB at the time. All I am doing is showing that based on results, that all the folks from ATF are ****ING LIARS!!!
The more charges the longer he will be sentenced to probation when he makes a deal with the attorney general.
this guy was a janitor at a local manufacturing company, tryied selling his guns at Collectable Arms in Merrimack where they made a "reasonable" offer CAs words not mine. my guess is he was looking for at least a grand for both guns and the ammo and he had been getting low balled.
If I was going to make a WAG this guy posted his shit on armslist and the fed fished him off there, and then conned him into coming into MA with the guns....
-Mike
With fibs all you need is the will, they provide the rest.
Why is that Mossberg "large capacity"??? It's a pump and it's a 5 round fixed tube...
Um... It's not *trafficking* if he sold in NH, but it's still a Federal crime to sell to a non NH resident.
If I was going to make a WAG this guy posted his shit on armslist and the fed fished him off there, and then conned him into coming into MA with the guns....
-Mike
Word on the street those who profess to know him is he has a baby on the way and has been all over Facebook and other sites trying to sell his guns because he needs the money. Sure, he was obviously ignorant of the laws. So was I when I moved to MA from a free state. Living my entire life in a place where normal firearm use didn't land you in jail, I never even considered the fact that simply having a gun and ammo would make you a felon. The idea never even crossed my mind. It made about as much sense as someone telling me you could go to jail for owning a belt.
In the article is says he finally agreed to go to tweksbury. Right there tells us he refused at least a few times before agreeing. I want to know if the upped the offer price and how many times they asked him to go there.
If that's the case I feel truly sorry for him. Maybe the court will be lenient. In this day and age, with all the news about new gun laws being espoused on the news and on TV and radio, you'd think people would want to check on what laws may apply to them. I'm afraid it's too late for him to brush up on this subject now.
Yeah, smells like a nice near-entrapment job. Smells like if he didn't need the money desperately he wouldn't have done it.
-Mike
If that's the case I feel truly sorry for him. Maybe the court will be lenient. In this day and age, with all the news about new gun laws being espoused on the news and on TV and radio, you'd think people would want to check on what laws may apply to them. I'm afraid it's too late for him to brush up on this subject now.
know the person, has kid on way and taking care of 2 of his gf kids needed cash to get apartment because they were living week to week out of hotels, ATF informant saw he was try to sell it on facebook made offer he couldnt refuse, told his gf it was enough for apartment, toys for the kids and baby stuff instead there going to railroad him on trumped up charges and never see his kid born
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+1Yeah, smells like a nice near-entrapment job. Smells like if he didn't need the money desperately he wouldn't have done it.
-Mike
Phew. Good thing they got that gun trafficker off the street. Think of all the lives that high capacity shotgun might have taken.
You'd think so, but it just doesn't come to someone's mind at times. For example, if you moved to NH, would you check to see if you could legally own a steak knife? A baseball bat? When I moved to MA it never even occurred to me that the shotgun shells in my center console could make me a felon. The thought is just ludicrous.
As for this kid, the same may apply. After all, if he was 5 miles north he wouldn't have been breaking any laws.
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