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The Rise and Fall of Ex-Reality-TV Star, Gunsmoke Guns' Rich Wyatt
Westword ^ | March 13, 2017 | Michael Roberts

Posted on 03/14/2017 1:10:25 PM PDT by MileHi

Rich Wyatt, the star of American Guns, a once-popular Discovery Channel program that showcased him, his telegenic family, including wife Renee and kids Paige and Kurt, and his business, Wheat Ridge's Gunsmoke Guns, has been found guilty of conspiring to deal firearms without a license and multiple tax charges.

The verdict completes the fall of a once-prominent TV personality who rubbed shoulders with celebrities such as rock star Ted Nugent and even a former President of the United States, George W. Bush.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: americanguns; banglist; co; guns; richwyatt
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Had them install some night sights on a 1911 a long time ago. That shop never gave me any warm fuzzies. Rich came off plenty arrogant, long before American Guns.

Pretty foolish so it's hard to feel bad for him. He was in the GUN BUSINESS for cryin' out load.

1 posted on 03/14/2017 1:10:25 PM PDT by MileHi
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To: george76

Might be of interest.


2 posted on 03/14/2017 1:18:01 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

Here’s a suggestion to gun shops/smiths who think it might be a good idea to star in a reality show..... DONT!!!!

Between this guy and pedophile Will Hayden of Sons Of Guns it’s not a good thing to be on a show that the ATF can watch and look for inconsistencies that might be illegal. Especially since these shows were on during Obama’s ATF tenure.

BTW. Will Hayden is a big slimeball and I hope he gets life.


3 posted on 03/14/2017 1:18:32 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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He had fun in gunrunning guns until he was the one that got stunned in an illegal deal done that he should have run from.


4 posted on 03/14/2017 1:19:59 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
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I never did know why he had his FFL pulled.


5 posted on 03/14/2017 1:22:57 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

I enjoyed the program and the “scenery”, but how damn stupid can a person be!! He lost it all!! Buying 600k$ home on nominal salary(ies)!? Blooming idiot!


6 posted on 03/14/2017 1:23:21 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: MileHi

Great Freudian slip: “...for cryin’ out load.”


7 posted on 03/14/2017 1:25:18 PM PDT by BBB333 (The power of TRUMP compels you!)
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Yeah, he didn’t think it through.


8 posted on 03/14/2017 1:25:19 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: BBB333

oops


9 posted on 03/14/2017 1:25:55 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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And now it turns out that his daughter, who said she was abused by him, was arrested along with her husband for abusing a child. WTH.


10 posted on 03/14/2017 1:30:09 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: MileHi

To those who say with their mouths that the 2nd amendment should be strictly interpreted, how then can you revel in the fall of someone simply doing what should not be regulated at all by the government?

“Shall not be infringed”, but it is okay to tax, regulate, license, register, control and ban?

Just because this guy rubbed people the wrong way, people celebrate and call him stupid that he is no imprisoned for something that the Federal government has no business infringing upon.

First they come for the “low hanging fruit”, but most gun owners comply instead of working to return the Federal government back into its Constitutional box. With just a few tweaks, the next “branch” will be harvested. The majority will still be safe.......until they are not.


11 posted on 03/14/2017 1:33:40 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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12 posted on 03/14/2017 1:40:10 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: MileHi

A couple of the guys were ok that worked there. I bought a couple of consignment C+R guns that were reasonably priced, before the shop was on TV but I thought the new stuff was overpriced. The show never did much for me and maybe some of them got star struck.


13 posted on 03/14/2017 1:40:37 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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Well, I get your point, but blatant tax evasion and selling guns after they pull your FFL will get you tons of unwanted attention in the real world. Ripping off an old man for his expensive firearms collection doesn’t help you lay low.


14 posted on 03/14/2017 1:43:36 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

So. Did he have a FFL or not?


15 posted on 03/14/2017 1:44:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Matches my impression. They didn’t really want to be bothered if you weren’t there to spend a few grand. Richie never really came across as a good guy.

Haven’t been able to get Peter Boyles for some time, wonder what he thinks of all this.


16 posted on 03/14/2017 1:49:02 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: smokingfrog

Apparently they pulled his ticket.


17 posted on 03/14/2017 1:51:17 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Rastus

Trash.


18 posted on 03/14/2017 2:07:39 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: MileHi

Boyles was over at 710KNUS last I knew. I never heard him talk about it, but I haven’t been able to listen to Boyles except via podcast. lately.


19 posted on 03/14/2017 2:17:23 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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Yeah, can’t get the 710 signal up here in Gods country. At least we get KOA and some local country station.


20 posted on 03/14/2017 2:20:01 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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