“commenced with a firearms trace of a .50 caliber sniper rifle sold by Shipley. That rifle was recovered by Mexican authorities following a gunbattle between suspected narcotraffickers and the Mexican military near Chihuahua, Mexico”
You made the bed, now lay on it for a while.
He didn’t make his own bed. If I remember correctly from his trail, he sold the rifle to a LEO who then resold it to a mexican. He didn’t violate the law, the person who purchased it from him did.