Posted on 07/23/2008 8:00:22 AM PDT by marktwain
The Gun Owners of America have launched a campaign to help support the family of a man sentenced to 30 months in jail for a rifle that misfired. Officials with GOA today announced they will be working to generate support for the wife and three children of David Olofson, on whom WND has reported in the past, while a GOA-orchestrated appeal of his conviction proceeds. "Not only is Gun Owners of American representing Olofson during his appeal, we have set up an Olofson relief fund so that his wife and mother of their three young children will be able to keep making her mortgage and car payments," Larry Pratt, chief of the organization, said in an editorial provided to WND. "Those interested in making a small monthly donation from a charge to their credit card can go to www.gunowners.org/olofson.htm or call GOA and arrange over the phone to have this done.
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None so blind as those who will not see
Have met Larry a number of times and had him as a guest on radio shows over the years. He is, indeed, one of our patriots.
BTW, is the NRA doing anything to assist in this case?
Good question. I really don’t know. But while the NRA are a useful bunch and dedicated to the cause, they are more lawyerly in their approach, where Larry gets down in the trenches and fights with the grunts......just a matter of style, I guess.
No surprise, The Legacy of the Clinton's
Wow I am amazed. I have been asking for five years just what the GOA has ever done and they have finally elected to try to do something.
They turned their backs to the Katrina victims.
They haven’t done anything about the gun bans in San Francisco, Morton Grove, Evanston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Winnetka or Wilmette.
They haven’t done a thing about Castle Doctrine.
Now they are finally going to put some money into this guy’s appeal.
Let’s see if they actually accomplish something.
I doubt it.
That’s a pitiful joke. Up to now, the GOA is famous for doing absolutely nothing.
Let’s see if they can actually do something instead of mouthing off.
The NRA and the SAF is busy with something like five lawsuits based on Heller.
I don’t see the GOA helping the Second Amendment Foundation or the NRA at all.
Is this the guy who loaned a doctored AR-15 to someone with the instruction not to put the selector switch in the unmarked “third position” because it “might” go full-auto, or is this someone else?
I do agree that the BATF is in need of supervision.
I certainly do not know. I know that I do not trust what the BATF puts forward as evidence.
I have heard the same version of the rifle that he had, was refused to be registered as a full-auto rifle by the BATF, and that evidence was denied to the court.
Go back to sleep. The adults have work to do.
“...was refused to be registered as a full-auto rifle by the BATF...”
You can’t register a full-auto weapon manufactured after 1986.
“At the government’s insistence, the court refused to allow Olofson’s firearms expert to physically examine the gun; he was only allowed to observe as an ATF employee took the gun through a function check and opened the action to his view. What he saw were standard, unaltered components of the same type and configuration that were included in this particular brand of rifle from the factory over two decades ago; parts that are known by ATF to produce exactly the type of malfunction noted and in response to which ATF had once ordered a safety recall.
In another recent case, ATF removed a gun from the machinegun registration rolls because the gun was manufactured as an AR15 and had been intentionally modified to fire in full-auto mode using the hammer-follow method. ATF ruled that such a gun was not a machinegun, but a semi-auto in need of repair. By removing the gun from the NFA rolls ATF devalued the gun from a market value of around $20,000.00 to about $1,500.
Olofson’s judge and jury were not allowed to learn about either the ATF ordered recall or the reclassification of a rifle like Olofson’s as not being a machinegun, because ATF and the US Attorney claimed that such information was prohibited from disclosure by tax privacy laws. This contention now appears to be patently false and the judge has egg on his face for not making the government prove their privacy claim.
I don’t really know David Olofson and I have no personal knowledge of any of the facts in this case. I have spoken with Olofson, reviewed the case documents and spoken with Len Savage, the firearms expert who was present for most of the trial. From those interviews and documents I can not determine with any certainty the complete facts of this case. What I am certain of is that David Olofson was convicted on flimsy evidence without a proper opportunity to present a reasonable defense. If the government can destroy his life for nothing more than loaning a malfunctioning rifle to a friend, then no gun owner is safe from the threat of government agents.”
Ah yes - your standard response, an insult. How pathetic, but I understand. It's the best you can do.
Heller may be this guys saving grace.
Hopefully, someone sues over this. It seems to create an undue burden on the Second Amendment based on Heller.
I hope so.
I do think if by some miracle the guy does get out, he needs a keeper. Anyone that stupid is bound to earn a Darwin Award.
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