Posted on 09/06/2019 10:50:54 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A Texas man is the first person to be charged under a federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow a semi-automatic firearm to fire rapidly like a machine gun, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Ajay Dhingra, 43, of Houston, came on the radar of the U.S. Secret Service in August after he sent an email to the George W. Bush Foundation asking the former president to "send one of your boys to come and murder me," according to court records.
Prosecutors allege that Dhingra had previously been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and was prohibited from owning firearms. When Secret Service agents showed up at his house, Dhingra told them he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, court documents said.
At his home, investigators found a handgun and an AR-15 rifle that had a bump stock attached to it, the documents said. Investigators also found four 100-round magazines.
Dhingra's case is the first brought by the U.S. Justice Department for violating the nationwide bump stock ban since it took effect in March, under the same federal law that prohibits possessing machine guns. The devices became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used by the gunman who killed 58 people and left hundreds of others injured in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.
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Cherry pick a guy who makes this look like a WONDERFUL regulation. Quel surprise!
From a long line of Texas Dhingras, I’m sure........
Why charge for the bump stock. He isn’t suppose to own any arms. Stuck on stupid?? Or making it into a test case....at our expense?
A schizophrenic who is already prohibited.
They go way back, back when maybe a Dhingras ate a baby.
I figured they found him with a brand-new box of Office Depot rubber bands.
Or maybe fingers and belt loops.
Cherry pick a guy who makes this look like a WONDERFUL regulation. Quel surprise!
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Cherry pick?
The nut case called and volunteered.
Hmmm... The connection between bump-stock possession and schizophrenia has been clearly established... /s
Yep! Meanwhile Hillary, Comey, etal. remain free as a bird. And will remain so forever and forever. Anyone who believes they will be prosecuted is only fooling themselves. I fooled myself for a long time and then had to face reality.
If this guy didn’t own a bump stock they would not have bothered him.
Even though they knew about his mental problems they would have waited until he committed a mass murder.
That is the way our government institutions work
Bingo!
It just fell into their lap, what are they supposed to do, let a good crisis go to waste?
Even though they knew about his mental problems they would have waited until he committed a mass murder.
Uh, they didn't find out that he had a bump stock until after they went to his home and 'bothered him.'
Banning bump stocks through an Executive Order is clearly unconstitutional.
I feel safer already. /s
What a moronic thing to do.
good... GTFO of Texas Dinghra.
Yup. GGG grampaw Black Jack Dhingras - Singlehandedly fired the cannon at San Jacinto. 164 times.
I don't. Perhaps JPFO or GOA, but not the NRA.
Pretty sure the NRA did not oppose the bump stock ban.
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