Posted on 10/13/2007 7:53:35 PM PDT by RDTF
ATLANTA (AP) - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday—just hours before he was to take the stage at the BET Hip-Hop Awards—after federal officials said he had paid his bodyguard to buy machine guns and silencers for him.
The arrest resulted from an investigation that began this month when a federal firearms licensee contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about a man inquiring about buying a machine gun without registering the weapon as required by law, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
After trying to buy several machine guns from an undercover ATF agent, the unnamed person began cooperating with the government and said he was buying the machine guns and silencers for Clifford Harris, T.I.'s given name, the complaint said. According to the bodyguard, he had bought about nine firearms for T.I., and the rapper had given him cash to buy guns four different times, it said.
Harris brokered the deals through the bodyguard because he is a convicted felon, the complaint alleged. It is against federal law for a convicted felon to have another person get firearms on their behalf.
The 27-year-old rapper had arranged to pick up the weapons just hours before he was to take the stage at the Hip-Hop Awards, being taped blocks away, according to the complaint.
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Why would anybody want to buy this kind of artillery?
Wow. What purpose was this going to serve? He already has a bodyguard why does he need a gun on top of that? And who is he pissing off enough to need a machine gun?
Who?
..Clifford Harris, T.I.'s given name..
Oh.
Why would anyone buy a corvette when a VW will get you from point A to B. People with money aways got to have the biggest toy. Maybe he has other short comings. LOL
I agree somewhat, I would buy the VW or perhaps a corvette, depending on my bank account … but a machine gun AND silencers. Plaaaaaease. He has issues greater then his “short comings”. Mayhap he wants to kill his loosing pit bulls in groups.
Criminals are not known for their intelligence.
If you like rap (I do), TI is one of the best...and between him and BATF I know which I have more use for. >:)
-Eric
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