Posted on 02/03/2020 9:24:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Federal agents do surprise compliance checks
A Nebraska gun dealer will spend more than two years in federal prison for possessing an unregistered gun silencer.
In U.S. District Court on Friday, Joseph Melton, from Holdrege, NE, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to the charge. Melton will also be on supervised release for two years.
Advertisement Melton, 31, was a candidate for mayor of Holdrege in 2018 and was part owner of Leadfoot LLC, a gun shop and manufacturer in Holdrege. Leadfoot obtained a federal firearms license to manufacture and sell silencers. During a compliance check in August 2017, federal agents found an unlicensed silencer inside the business. Agents also uncovered 18 violations of federal codes related to the firearms business.
Melton told investigators the silencer was a payment or trade from a customer.
The silencer was not licensed to Leadfoot or Melton in the national database. He plead guilty to unlawful possession in November of 2019.
The case of part of Project Guardian, a Department of Justice project to reduce gun violence and enforce federal gun laws.
Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime...
Two years for a tube on a guy that manufactures tubes! You can buy a suppressor and put it on a gun without a license in the UK!!! Are we retarded or what?
Owning a metal tube gets you two years in Prison. We’re screwed.
Owning a metal tube gets you two years in Prison? We’re screwed.
Two years for owning something that is completely harmless. He could have broken into a car instead and avoided jail time.
Shall not be infringed
A silencer isn’t even arms.
“Shall not be infringed.”
Right! And to think we pay for all this injustice , tyranny. It stinks to high heaven. Maybe pdjt can shut atf down
Right! And to think we pay for all this injustice , tyranny. It stinks to high heaven. Maybe pdjt can shut atf down
If he wasn’t framed (always a possibility with BATFE), it’s shockingly stupid for him to have done this. It’s equally stupid that we ever passed such a silly law. It’s disgusting that the GOP made so little effort to pass the Hearing Protection Act in 2017.
If the GOP wants to win, they need to start winning when they have control. Repeal the vast majority of federal gun laws. Shrink FedGov. Start cutting wasteful spending. I know this is silly talk; the Deep State would have you impeached on non-crimes if you did all of that.
The customer who traded it in as a payment was probably atf
Well, it’s important to keep this law on the books to prevent poaching.
.....from the 1930s.
/sarc
DING DING DING DING!
I know I’m feeling a lot more safe this evening.
Whew, I have two years before I need to get back to obsessing about this guy and whether he has a silencer or not.
Meanwhile, those guns sold to Mexico remain out there in the hands of cartel members.
Aw heck who am I kidding? Those people don’t mean our citizens any harm. The agency that facilitated that didn’t break any laws. Why no...
I sure hope they keep a paper and pencil away from this guy while he’s in prison. I don’t want him doing anything stupid.
You know, like providing firearms to cartel members.
One wonders what kind of a commendation or job advancement he’d get if he did something like that.
Yeah, he might Draw up plans for all the other Inmates and like the Kids in sckrool getting tossed out for drawing a Gun in History class .
OWNING A TUBE MAKES YOU A VERY DANGEROUS TERRORIST.
JOE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE CHAIR. JOE IS A VERY DANGEROUS CITIZEN. A TRAVELER IS TAKING HIS LIFE IN HIS OWN HANDS JUST DRIVING THROUGH HOLDREGE. THE JUDGE WAS REALLY BEING LENIENT.
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