Posted on 06/29/2025 9:59:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Three years ago Patrick Adamiak was an E-6 in the Navy, on his way to finishing a military career. At 28, he had a private business selling popular gun parts and replica, non-firing weapons. Today, he’s nearing his third year in a federal prison, serving a 20-year sentence.
His life fell apart when the ATF decided to take an interest in him. They raided his home and found nothing illegal, just gun parts and entirely legal, semiautomatic guns. But these were the Biden/Garland years and guns of any kind, and gun owners, were in their crosshairs. An example had to be made and the man to do it was one Jeffrey Bodell who had been an ATF agent for less than two years.
Adamiak was arrested, charged with possessing unregistered machineguns, among other crimes. At trial, Bodell admitted he had never testified as an expert witness, but the Judge certified him as such. Bodell was essential in railroading Adamiak. With a shaky gunsmithing background, he “proved” Adamiak’s legal guns were machineguns.
Graphic: Sten Gun. Warszawskie, Kraków, Poland - panoramio (162). Wikimedia Commons.org. CCA 3.0 Unported.
The STEN is a WWII British submachine gun. Non-firing replicas have long been popular, and to be legal, they must not be able to be converted to functional guns. Adamiak’s STEN wasn’t until Bodell went to work:
Bodell inserted a real STEN action and a real STEN barrel into Adamiak’s toy STEN submachinegun and got it to fire one round, even though the toy’s receiver wouldn’t accept a real STEN magazine. Bodell actually classified the toy, which are very popular, as a machinegun.
Precise definitions are essential to Federal firearm law, but in Adamiak’s case, the ATF decided the law was what they said it was, not what was written:
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When will Bondi go after Garland?
Not without going after the incompetent judge in this case.
But we know the answer to both.
The ATF needs to pay for that one.
Well, there's always a first time. Problem is that experts are given WAY too much weight in trial settings; indeed "experts" are a blight on humanity in general.
Sounds like it’s time for a pardon.
I used to know an ATF agent. He was an actual gun guy. He was over the house one day after having to confiscate a WWII bring back sub-machine gun from a vet.
He was sick that such an historical artifact was going to be destroyed. The law offers zero relief for that.
We’ve lost touch. No idea if he’s still with the agency.
“ Bodell admitted he had never testified as an expert witness, but the Judge certified him as such”
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I’ve learned from following the Karen Read trial that an “expert witness” is whoever the trial judge wants to to be treated as such. A corrupt judge will simply “certify” as an expert who they want (however obviously lacking in expertise) and refuse to require them to undergo a requested voir dire. All the while the corrupt judge would require obviously well qualified experts to undergo multiple (four) voir dires.
This poor sergeant was “railroaded” by the agenda driven Biden ATF.
These Biden admin agents are still here, they are just keeping their heads down for the next 3 years. Then it’ll be back to normal business.
I remember when non-firing replicas of sub machine guns came on the market. One man bought one and showed it to his friends, one then dropped a dime on him to the ATF. They investigated and he had to prove it was not a firing firearm or be arrested.
Then there was a man who had a perfectly legal taxed and licensed mint condition Thompson sub machine gun.
One day the cops came and confiscated the firearm. He then sued and two or three years later got his mint condition Thompson back, so rusted up it was now worthless.
Reminds me of South Africa in the 1870s when natives would work for a “Birmingham Gas Pipe” (musket). One day the government ordered them all in for “registration” and refused to give them back. After quite a stink over it, the firearms were all given back, so damaged they were unusable.
You are depending on Bondi to go after someone?
Peaceful solution.
most advocates of getting rid of the ayyyeeeeteeeef focus on its patent unconstitutionality, on the natural right of citizens to self-defense, for game hunting, for sport, all of the good reasons.
but there’s an additional very important need, reason to shut it down now. As illustrated in this report. It is the directc danger the agency represents to Americans, by its direct armed assaults and false arrests of people who’ve done nothing wrong EVEN by their unlawful “laws” and “regulations” ———
Obama sought to create a “domestic army at least as strong or stronger than the army we deploy overseas”
hopefully the far leftists behind most of the anti=constitutional agitation will pause to consider what armed “civilian” agencies mean for THEIR future and their liberties. (Since they obviously don’t want anybody else or America as “land of the free...” to have any freedom, liberties ....)
Conspiracy involving ATF, US Attorney, Federal judge.
Yet more proof that the US judicial system is suffering obeisity of corruption.
In the end, it is due to the Waco heads in ATF and their cowboy self image.
Those leftist idiots always think they are immune.
NO THE Bad Attitude Towards Freedom and Equality NEED TO BE NEUTERED WITH A DULL GRAPEFRUIT SPOON USING A HAMMER FOR ANESTHESIA AND DISSOLVED, NEVER TO BE FORGIVEN, FORGOTTEN OR RESURRECTED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, FORM, FUNCTION OR NAME !!!
ALL OF THEM PUT IN PRISON UNTIL THE DAY THAT THEY ARE HUNG FOR TREASON !!!
They aren’t immune. And tyrannical regimes often get rid of their Useful Idiot supporters — the dictators know better than anyone just how malleable and unreliable idiots can be. The dictators don’t want to risk the useful idiots being switched over to supporting any regime opponents.
“Back the Blue”
Which is worse though? FBI or ATF. Both are despicable organizations filled with power hungry crooks.
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