Quiet better, different strategy... no time to post details, but there are lots of milita and 2d Amendment rights activists being entrapped to commit technical violations (on the word of informants facing many years if they don't cooperate-- i.e. liars)... I've noticed a bunch of these... multiple arrests, big news splash about machine guns, links to crime... but it is just a gun dealer who committed a minor violation who winds up serving hard time with everyone involved who won't play the same game on the next person on "the list".
Sounds like the standard M.O., without the grandstanding.