Posted on 07/01/2008 6:03:09 PM PDT by xjcsa
The entire operation was a bogus one created by the ATF. If I remember right a jury found Randy Weaver not guilty of all charges except for failure to appear. He later sued and the Federal Government paid him and his family several million dollars.
The FBI was caught red handed violating their own policy and probably the law. The agents were given a reprimand which is normally a serious career killer, but in this case they were promoted months later.
This was under the Bush Sr. administration.
RED ALERT.
Please note that not only did the SCOTUS leave the door open to gun licensing, but now the gun control crowd are trying to turn licensing into a meme.
And not just concealed carry licensing, but licensing of all guns.
You can bet your bottom dollar that there is going to be a major push, based on the false “axiom” that somehow the SCOTUS has directed that guns be licensed.
“Mueller said communities now will have to decide their own licensing programs.”
Oh really. AND WHY IS THAT?
Individual States, NOT “communities” have authority to require the licensing of concealed carry weapons.
But NOBODY. No “community”, No State, and NOT the federal government “HAS” to license firearms.
DO NOT let them get away with it.
As I recall also, the original charge for the reason they went out to his place was because he sold a shotgun to an undercover ATF agent and then the undercover agent asked him to saw off the barrel (can anyone say entrapment?) which he did.
So the ATF sent their guys up to his place snooping around all because of selling a sawed off shotgun. It was a slow day at the office so they had to go out and make up a crime.
I have also read that he didn't even saw it off to an illegal length depending on how one measured the barrel.
They arrested him btw by pretending to be a disabled motorist and when he stopped to help them they got him.
They really wanted to get some White separatists who Weaver was friendly with and wanted to use Weaver as a stooge after they trapped him. When he refused that is when they really went after him.
The whole thing was about as dirty as it gets.
Sort of. Scalia's opinion pointedly "(did) not address" licensing, as Heller did not challenge it. To me, it almost read like they were ready to strike down the licensing concept too, if Heller had given them a chance to do so.
I’d rather go in alone that have this ya-hoo cover my six.
And the safety of his weapon is off and he's not ready to engage anything.
How so, Mueller? The shooting sprees that have occurred on campuses happened while these handgun bans were in effect, how is confirming the right of the people, secured by the Constitution, going to make things a hazard now, as though there wasn't one previously??
I'm sure any potential killers will leave their guns at home when they hit your grandkid's campus boundary, Bob, just like the signs demand.
This clueless moron needs to be running the Brady Campaign, not the FBI!
I can’t tell what position the safety switch is in.
Lon Horiuchi was FBI not a convenience store clerk.
He's probably in a senior leadership position now for his "good" work at the Federal Bureau of Incineration.
Now I’m really glad I dropped out of the FBI SA program. I was in the application process and learned you had to serve 5 years at a major field office. Cincinnati is NOT a major field office. I already gave 10 years of my life to my country. No thanks.
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