Posted on 04/03/2009 7:54:00 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
VICTORIA, Texas - Eddy V. Pleasant, 52, of Sheridan, Texas, a former firearms dealer, has been ordered to surrender to a federal correctional institute to begin serving a prison sentence for making false statements during the purchase of firearms, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. United States District Judge John D. Rainey entered the order on March 31, 2009. Pleasant has been ordered to report to Federal Correctional Institute - El Reno - by April 21, 2009.
Pleasant was sentenced on Feb. 17 to 18 months in federal prison to be followed by a three year term of supervised release, and fined $2,000. Pleasant was allowed to remain out on bond until ordered to surrender to a designated institution.
Pleasant, charged Oct. 16, 2008 with numerous federal firearms violations, including falsifying Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Forms 4473, pleaded guilty on Nov. 21, 2008, to making a false statement in December 2005 during the sale of a firearm. Pleasant was accused of recording fictitious Texas concealed handgun licenses, which were used as alternatives to the FBI National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS), by making false entries on the forms in regard to NICS checks and willfully failing to conduct required NICS checks of his customers prior to transferring firearms to them. He was also charged with knowingly selling firearms from his business to two illegal aliens, who are prohibited by law to receive or possess a firearm. Additionally, Pleasant was charged with willfully recording false information into his records regarding the receipt and transfer of firearms to other federally-licensed firearms dealers, allowing him to traffic at least 176 firearms in a one-year-period without any record of where or to whom the firearms were transferred.
As a convicted felon, Pleasant is prohibited from even possessing a firearm.
ATF agents investigated the case with the assistance of industry operations investigators. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Carol Wheeler.
All part of the plan. Turn up the heat ever-so-slowly and the water we’re in will be boiling without us even realizing it. And it will be too late to do anything about it by the time we do.
YOU AWAKE AMERICA?!!!
Burn his ass off.
But the guy really screwed up....I have no sympathy for him.
True, if you accept the “charges.” But what you do want to bet that they threatened 10 years in prison, forfeiture of everything he owned, and he settled (within a month after being charged) for an easy 18 months out of fear of the charges.
Remember the gun store in recent months that turned out to have the ATF charges dropped because they were bogus? Maybe that one had better legal counsel than this one.
Some of the laws the guy allegedly broke are good laws. Why should illegals be able to buy guns for example?
I don’t know man! This guy seems to be the sort to sell to anybody, criminal or not.IMHO!
LOL....there is no outrage that the illegals are in the country illegally or buying firearms illegally, probably with money they obtained illegally, only that the dealer broke the law selling them firearms.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have a lot of sympathy for him if he did in fact knowingly sell firearms to illegals, but it seems there ought to be just as much, if not more outrage, directed at the fact the illegals were here in the first place...are they in prison now?
“Are they in prison now?”Most likely given immunity and citizenship for testifying.(sarc)
BS whistle needs to be blown on this one. Maybe he’s not an angel, but he doesn’t need the felony and prison.
This is called “enforcing the existing laws.”
The law is the law. If you disagree with it try change it but if you decide to break it be ready to pay the price.
I might carry where it is not allowed at times but I am ready to pay the piper if caught.
As to the illegal aliens I don’t feel that any crackdown could be too harsh up to and including shooting them at the border. Allowing and paying bounty hunters to deport them would be fine too. If this guy sold them guns bury him unless they provided the required ID.
The whole idea that you will reduce crime by attempting to prevent the sale of firearms to certain persons has been shown to be a fiasco and a fraud. It might have had some hope of justification 40 years ago, but very little even then. We should never have allowed the federal government to require serial numbers on firearms.
The whole apparatus of getting permission from the government to buy a firearm, and recording of sales should be dismantled. It is an affront to a free society.
You must have overlooked the part where I typed, "Don't get me wrong, I don't have a lot of sympathy for him if he did in fact knowingly sell firearms to illegals..."
My point is in fact, the same as yours, "The law is the law," and it seems that in this case, law enforcement put a lot more emphasis on the laws governing the firearms dealer, and a lot less on the illegal aliens. I'm not for changing the law against selling firearms to illegals, but I would like to see the laws against illegal aliens being enforced with at least equal vigor and enthusiasm.
Per the 2nd it IS a right to own.
Via political watering down throughout the years it has become a "privilege" given by government discretion.
The total of the Constitution will some day become nothing but a piece of paper in the archives for visitors to see and learn of history.
After the privilege to see it has been granted.
A repeat for those who may have missed it.
Well stated Eaker.
I totally agree with you. The beefed up attack to stop guns going into Mexico is simply a cover to attack gun dealers and American citizens because the guns aren’t coming from here. They are standing on the border looking the wrong direction instead of rounding up illegal alien criminals.
You overlooked where I said illegal aliens should be shot at the border too.
He deserves what he gets.
Indeed I did; however, in my USA, the border land mines, electrified concertina wire, pirahna schools, and alligator farms would eliminate the necessity of shooting them ;-)
The idictment is he falsely used bogus CCW numbers to bypass the NICS system.
They tried it with the gun shop in AZ recently, and the judge tossed the case.
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