30 months in jail for broken gun (BATF gone wild)

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[frankiep]

How much more intrusive and oppressive can our government get before something is done about it?

[Puppage]

A federal judge has ordered a 30-month prison sentence for a man whose rifle misfired, letting loose three shots at a firing range

Let's review......AT A FIRING RANGE.

I guess I need to turn myself in then cause I shoot my Sigs & kimber pistols as fast as I can pull the trigger.

[oldbill]

Look - if the feds ever arrest you for something, just say you are illegal.

You will be released immediately and 15 organizations will rush in to give you aid and money.

[kbennkc]

Did Mr. Kiernicki testify that Mr.Olofson knew of the weapon's propensity to fire multiple times with a single trigger manipulation ?

[Polynikes]

It was an Olympic Arms. Don't they have a rep for inertial double taps due to steel firing pins and using civilian grade ammo. Conversion to a titanium firing pin is supposed to help or least thats what I have heard. Can anyone confirm that?

[EdReform]

Bang

[Doomonyou]

How long until “bump firing” is illigal?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I have read that this particular rifle was subject to a recall because of the propensity to slam fire but he never got the notice because he wasn’t the original owner. The case is being appealed.

[barb-tex]

I once inherited a Winchester Model 1911SL shotgun and a real sad excuse for a gun it was. Winchester tried to make a knockoff Browning Nuff said. Anyway sometimes it would double and even triple, which tends to wake one up. Also I had a Fox Model B that had a defective sear and it started doubling.
fortunately I never got caught and still owe the jail time.
barbra ann

[Blood of Tyrants]

And anti-gunners wonder why we are so paranoid.

[Last Dakotan]

Who was the kind person at the range who turned him in?

[Hacklehead]

“It didn’t matter the rifle in question had not been intentionally modified for select fire, or that it did not have an M16 bolt carrier or sear, that it did not show any signs of machining or drilling, or that that model had even been recalled a few years back,” said a commentary in Guns Magazine on the case against David R. Olofson, of Berlin, Wis. “It didn’t matter the government had repeatedly failed to replicate automatic fire until they replaced the ammunition with a softer primer type.”

This is not new as it’s been this way for 25 years. The ATF is a rogue agency. If you think it’s bad now, wait until the RATS have 60 seats in the senate.

[VanShuyten]

I’ve found that if I mistakenly over-tighten the recoil springs on my Rem 597 .22LR, it will put out two rounds at a time. I hope BATF doesn’t monitor these threads.

[Puppage]

I never got caught and still owe the jail time.

Hey, maybe we'll be on the same cell block? Can I have your pudding?

[EdReform]

GIVE THE BATFE THE BOOT!

[tacticalogic]

Let's review......AT A FIRING RANGE.

And on further review - MISFIRED.

mis·fire (ms-fr)
intr.v. mis·fired, mis·fir·ing, mis·fires

2. To fail to discharge. Used of a firearm.

[TYVets]

"It didn't matter the rifle in question had not been intentionally modified for select fire,,,,"

letting loose three shots at a firing range.

Forty years ago I owned a Winchester Model 100 semi-auto rifle. The trigger pull was atrocious.

The local gunsmith said perhaps he could help it, but only so much.

After the second trip to the gunsmith the rifle let loose 2 shots then jammed. ( 5 shot magazine )

After the third trip the rifle had a so/so trigger pull but was semi-auto.

40 years later is the one time event of the unintentional results of the modified rife is still a crime?

[mysterio]

Defund the ATF.

[holymoly]

If you pull the trigger once and it fires more than one round, no matter what the cause it's a machine gun.

So, if someone had a cap-and-ball revolver which mis-fired, causing two or more chambers to discharge with one trigger pull, that cap-and-ball revolver would be classified as a "machine gun"?

[TYVets]

Our cell is getting crowded.