Posted on 10/19/2018 12:07:06 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A 70-year-old Texas man was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to buying an automatic rifle in the 1980s, CBS station KTVT reports. Alfred Pick of Plano purchased the M14 rifle at a gun show that was similar to the weapon he had as an Army lieutenant in the Vietnam War.
"This gun was very rare," Pick attorney Ryne Sandel told KTVT. "You see, at that time it was rare to see one, so he instantly, you know, had a connection to it."
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided Pick's house last year on a tip about the weapon, KTVT reports. Two weeks before the raid, his wife of 40 years had died of cancer, according to the station.
Pick and his wife had a gun collection of about 14 weapons, Sandel said. "Many of them were collector's items," he said
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“Actually, now that his wife has passed, he will be getting his Social Security, three squares a day, a place to bunk for nothing, probably rental from his home, and seven years to reevaluate his system of beliefs and priorities. At 77, he will still be pretty young in today’s terms (I’m 82, and busy every day with internet activity, Bible study, keeping my property up, and helping out other veterans through the DAV and VA Volunteer Service). There’s no reason that he cannot resume his normal community life after he pays his dues. The photo in the article makes him look pretty fit. This could be a learning experience for you, too, if you let it.”
The “something is wrong with this post meter” is pegging the needle.
So when are obama and Holder going to prison for purposely giving fully automatic weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels?????
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