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Vietnam War veteran sentenced to 7 years in prison for buying "rare" gun in the 1980
CBS News ^ | 10/18/2018 | ALEX SUNDBY

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; banglist; texas; vietnamvets
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Federal prison means no probation.

Federal scum.


61 posted on 10/19/2018 1:35:01 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Eagles6

I would LOVE to have my old M14 ... ‘65 - ‘67


62 posted on 10/19/2018 1:35:18 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: mrmeyer
This American exercises his 2nd Amendment rights and we can’t have that now can we?

I follow the laws regarding firearms, there's no reason why he shouldn't.........

63 posted on 10/19/2018 1:36:57 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (The art of lock picking began during the era of chastity belts.......)
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To: chuckles
Not just a tax item. First, you need to be cleared to have the license, firearms it covers or not. Next, you lose your license if you have and do not report and surrender a defaced unlawful firearm, automatic or not. IIRC. Plus criminal record check, references, etc. It will be interesting to see the backstory. Maybe the "vet" was a draftee whose service was unwilling, forced on him. Maybe he was a SDS consituent sent to Nam.

Looks like you've assumed the position of judging without a factual base, rather than the one qualified to give the sentence based on testimony.

64 posted on 10/19/2018 1:38:25 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Never used in a crime? No other criminal record? Something is wrong with this picture.


65 posted on 10/19/2018 1:39:26 PM PDT by Boomer (Better Dead Than Dem)
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To: Kid Shelleen

7 years for a 70yo man who just lost his wife of 40 years is torture and cruel and unusual punishment. It would be more merciful to just shoot him now. Sentencing is out of control.


66 posted on 10/19/2018 1:39:54 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Well if we want to get Constitutional about it, the man committed no crime whatsoever. Jefferson and Washington and the rest of the founders would certainly agree that there was no crime.
 
67 posted on 10/19/2018 1:43:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: goldstategop
I can see a vet is more of a threat to society than a murderer.

What does the fact that the guy was a vet have to do with his owning an illegal, fully automatic rifle?

Had they left out the fact that the guy was a vet and just identified him as a John Doe have made a difference in your opinion? I'm going out on a limb here but I suspect it would have.............

68 posted on 10/19/2018 1:44:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (The art of lock picking began during the era of chastity belts.......)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This should mean they are working their way down the stack of cases and should get to arresting Eric Holder around 2032 for the Fast & Furious crimes.


69 posted on 10/19/2018 1:45:18 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: blueplum
#66: "7 years for a 70yo man who just lost his wife of 40 years is torture and cruel and unusual punishment."

He received that sentence because of his white privilege. If he were a ghetto gangsta he would have been sentenced to community service at Parks and Recreation.
 

70 posted on 10/19/2018 1:46:14 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: centurion316

There are full auto m-14’s available.
You can bid on this one in an upcoming auction if your pockets are deep enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3iFZSKXRcU

Shooting same gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAABMvmaGWQ


71 posted on 10/19/2018 1:48:32 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Liberty Valance

I can foresee a Trump pardon by Christmas.

PRAY U R RITE !!


72 posted on 10/19/2018 1:50:30 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Vermont Lt
Based on the story there doesn’t seem to be much there. Except buying an automatic rifle was even illegal back in the 1980s.

I wonder if this is one of the MK Specialties "re-welded" M14s that had BATF so stirred up around 20 years ago? They seem to have made it an agency priority to track down every last one of those.

73 posted on 10/19/2018 1:51:52 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Boomer
Something is wrong with this picture.

Yeah. The offender's perception of what the law is and the consequences for deliberately flouting it.

74 posted on 10/19/2018 1:54:08 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“raided Pick’s house last year on a tip about the weapon, KTVT reports.”

I would sure like to know who and why they provided the tip.


75 posted on 10/19/2018 1:56:39 PM PDT by suthener (E)
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To: JayGalt
He could have stolen a gun and shot a young woman in the head & killed her, he'd be a free man.

oh wait, that's only for illegal aliens from mexico with multiple arrests and deportations.

76 posted on 10/19/2018 1:57:52 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Interesting, and it makes sense. These guns were never inspected and accepted by the government which is how they made their way to the market.

I now recall seeing a picture of one of these with the flash suppressor which were copied from the British .303 Jungle Carbine. I’ve never seen a real one.


77 posted on 10/19/2018 1:59:47 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Kid Shelleen

It’s our Supreme Court now. This should be the case to overturn NFA, GCA, and FOPA.


78 posted on 10/19/2018 2:06:57 PM PDT by 10mm
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To: Notthereyet
I’m thinking we’re missing something here....

Like why it took 38 years for BATF to get to him on their list? Or maybe they had a drug dealer in need of one and the BATF inventory was low.

79 posted on 10/19/2018 2:13:33 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Manly Warrior
It is the law. Break it and pay
============

What other unconstitutional "laws" do you support?

I'll bet it's a whole bunch.

80 posted on 10/19/2018 2:16:07 PM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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