Posted on 04/28/2010 6:09:15 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
DETROIT - An FBI agent who led the investigation of nine Michigan militia members charged with trying to launch war against the federal government couldn't recall many details of the two-year probe yesterday during questioning by defense lawyers.
Even the judge who must decide whether to release the nine until trial was puzzled.
"I share the frustrations of the defense team … that she doesn't know anything," U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said after agent Leslie Larsen confessed she hadn't reviewed her notes recently and couldn't remember specific details of the case.
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Some more on the tape content may be found at freep.com at the URL I indicate below. The conversation does sound like folks just talkin’ ~ not an organized plan of action ~ and is remarkably like discussions here over the years about the way Eric Rudolph did “twofers” ~ first do a little blow up, or shooting, attract one or more cops, and then do a big blow up, or shooting. He got away with that technique repeatedly. I suppose it does work on some police agencies ~ FBI appears to be among those who act as though they are amazed someone could think up such a thing. http://www.freep.com/article/20100429/NEWS06/100429035/1320/Judge-Prove-Hutaree-planned-attack
I was going to mention that but you beat me to it, innocent until proven guilty and all that. The defense simply has to establish reasonable doubt. I don’t understand how it is incumbent upon them in any way to “prove” that their clients won’t be a threat if released. And the agent in charge doesn’t even know if the seized weapons are illegal are not? I’ll tell you what that means, they weren’t illegal and I called that back in march right here at FR when this started. They got NUTHIN!
most any semi-auto can fire full auto if you utilize the bump fire technique. You allow the recoil of the weapon to “bump” the trigger repeatedly inducinga high rate of fire. There’s tons of videos on Youtube show how it is done. It’s bad ass but pointless IMO, real rifleman fire semi-auto.
Although, I'm fairly certain that BATFE regs state that the belt-loop would become a part of an "unregistered" machine gun while doing so.
I sh*t you not. They once ruled that a shoestring wrapped around the grip of an M1 would be a "conversion device" producing a machine gun.
"Real" riflemen know that suppressive fire has it's place, but "one shot, one kill" is still a mantra that works wonders.
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