The "Undercover" Officer:
Noted for her "Undercover" work and resulting conviction rate.
$1K is a great price for a class “A” firearm.......
Do the Feds have any more for sale? I could be interested...😂
I know nothing about Iron Youth. A picture of the alleged perp might enlighten.
I will say I have concerns about illegal dealings when one of the parties is the law enforcement agency brokering the illegal purchase in this case. Would there have even been a crime if not facilitated?
On the other hand, if the alleged perp is a dirt bag with many other offenses, well, Al Capone was put away for tax evasion, you know.
I’ve never heard of the Iron Youth. What did the other four members have to say about his arrest?
His real crime is belonging to the wrong group?
“Oliver purchased a fully automatic machine gun from an undercover officer for $1,000”
Where did the PoPo get the gun?
You can tell who in your group is an undercover agent. He’s the one suggesting you perform an illegal act.
Was he making sure that he owned it before 1986 and that he was photographed and fingerprinted and that he was going to pay the $200 USD transfer tax?
“called Iron Youth, a racially motivated violent extremist group that advocates violence in the furtherance of its objectives.”
Smells bad, have never heard of any group like this, doubt very seriously that Texas Rangers would release this info if in fact this happened like presented.
How is this not entrapment?
According to other sources, the man arrested hates Jews. Not the typical person to be labeled “racist”.
And they say he is a Neo Nazi.
Guess we will see what the reality actually is.
The Fake Bureau of Intrapment should be dismantled.....the FBI is dangerously silly
The "Undercover" Officer:
Noted for her "Undercover" work and resulting conviction rate.
Stupid. No one is going to sell an actual submachinegun for $1000. An AR15 costs that much.
Will someone please explain to these Right Wing idiot teenagers that 50% of the people in their political clubs are paid FBI informants?
No photo of the kid... Wonder why? He’s over 18. Most times the msm takes great pleasure in getting a mug shot out with the story.
Only $1000 for a machine gun? I guess he never looked at the prices before.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The militia-related clauses of Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers aside, patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the federal government the specific power to regulate either the peacetime use of firearms, or over the counter sales of guns and ammo imo.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of the 14th Amendment (14A), had clarified that, until 14A was ratified, the states had never expressly constitutional given the feds the power to make peacetime penal laws, not even for murder.
"Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
Note that 14A gives Congress the power only to STRENGTHEN rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, including 2nd Amendment (2A), from abridgment by state actors.
In fact, the congressional record also shows that Bingham had included 2A when he read the Bill of Rights as main examples of privileges and immunities that 14A applies to the states.
John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about in middle of 2nd column.)
Again, while desperate federal Democrats want to take our guns away to try to stay in power, the only constitutionally express power that they have to make gun-related laws is, ironically, to make peacetime laws that STRENGTHEN gun rights.
So it's up to each state to use it's 10th Amendment (10A) powers to make reasonable, restrictive gun laws, such laws reasonably checked by Congress (ahem!).
In fact, Justice Reed had noted that it was the job of judges to balance 10A-protected state powers with 14A-protected rights.
"Conflicts in the exercise of rights arise and the conflicting forces seek adjustments in the courts, as do these parties, claiming on the one side the freedom of religion, speech and the press, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and on the other the right to employ the sovereign power explicitly reserved to the State by the Tenth Amendment to ensure orderly living without which constitutional guarantees of civil liberties would be a mockery.” —Justice Reed, Jones v. City of Opelika, 1942.
It is disturbing that federal peacetime gun regulations seem to have started appearing in the books during FDR Administration, FDR and the Congress at that time infamous for making laws which they had no express constitutional authority to make.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Finally, for the sake of argument, even if 2A was to disappear from the Constitution, it remains that the feds have no constitutionally express power to make peacetime, restrictive gun laws.
"The government of the United States is one of delegated powers alone. Its authority is defined and limited by the Constitution. All powers not granted to it by that instrument are reserved to the States or the people [emphasis added]. No rights can be acquired under the constitution or laws of the United States, except such as the government of the United States has the authority to grant or secure. All that cannot be so granted or secured are left under the protection of the States." —United States v. Cruikshank, Et Al."
"The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose.' This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence [emphasis added]. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed; but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress. […] —United States v. Cruikshank, Et Al."
They picked some low hanging fruit.