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Nebraska Gun Dealer Goes to Prison for Having Unregistered Silencer
KETV ^ | Feb 3, 2020 | Julie Cornell

Posted on 02/03/2020 9:24:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

Federal agents do surprise compliance checks

A Nebraska gun dealer will spend more than two years in federal prison for possessing an unregistered gun silencer.

In U.S. District Court on Friday, Joseph Melton, from Holdrege, NE, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to the charge. Melton will also be on supervised release for two years.

Advertisement Melton, 31, was a candidate for mayor of Holdrege in 2018 and was part owner of Leadfoot LLC, a gun shop and manufacturer in Holdrege. Leadfoot obtained a federal firearms license to manufacture and sell silencers. During a compliance check in August 2017, federal agents found an unlicensed silencer inside the business. Agents also uncovered 18 violations of federal codes related to the firearms business.

Melton told investigators the silencer was a payment or trade from a customer.

The silencer was not licensed to Leadfoot or Melton in the national database. He plead guilty to unlawful possession in November of 2019.

The case of part of Project Guardian, a Department of Justice project to reduce gun violence and enforce federal gun laws.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; nebraska; silencer
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1 posted on 02/03/2020 9:24:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Agents also uncovered 18 violations of federal codes related to the firearms business.

Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime...

2 posted on 02/03/2020 9:27:53 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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Two years for a tube on a guy that manufactures tubes! You can buy a suppressor and put it on a gun without a license in the UK!!! Are we retarded or what?


3 posted on 02/03/2020 9:29:33 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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Owning a metal tube gets you two years in Prison. We’re screwed.


4 posted on 02/03/2020 9:30:14 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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Owning a metal tube gets you two years in Prison? We’re screwed.


5 posted on 02/03/2020 9:34:53 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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Why do I get the feeling that this Melton guy is liberal and willing to take the fall on trumped up charges just to keep the Dems anti-gun narrative in the papers?


6 posted on 02/03/2020 9:40:02 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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Two years for owning something that is completely harmless. He could have broken into a car instead and avoided jail time.


7 posted on 02/03/2020 9:41:08 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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Shall not be infringed


8 posted on 02/03/2020 9:42:46 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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A silencer isn’t even arms.


9 posted on 02/03/2020 9:44:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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“Shall not be infringed.”


10 posted on 02/03/2020 9:52:06 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Right! And to think we pay for all this injustice , tyranny. It stinks to high heaven. Maybe pdjt can shut atf down


11 posted on 02/03/2020 9:57:10 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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Right! And to think we pay for all this injustice , tyranny. It stinks to high heaven. Maybe pdjt can shut atf down


12 posted on 02/03/2020 9:59:38 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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If he wasn’t framed (always a possibility with BATFE), it’s shockingly stupid for him to have done this. It’s equally stupid that we ever passed such a silly law. It’s disgusting that the GOP made so little effort to pass the Hearing Protection Act in 2017.

If the GOP wants to win, they need to start winning when they have control. Repeal the vast majority of federal gun laws. Shrink FedGov. Start cutting wasteful spending. I know this is silly talk; the Deep State would have you impeached on non-crimes if you did all of that.


13 posted on 02/03/2020 10:02:41 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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The customer who traded it in as a payment was probably atf


14 posted on 02/03/2020 10:07:20 PM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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Well, it’s important to keep this law on the books to prevent poaching.
.....from the 1930s.

/sarc


15 posted on 02/03/2020 10:13:37 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: going hot

DING DING DING DING!


16 posted on 02/03/2020 10:16:03 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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I know I’m feeling a lot more safe this evening.

Whew, I have two years before I need to get back to obsessing about this guy and whether he has a silencer or not.

Meanwhile, those guns sold to Mexico remain out there in the hands of cartel members.

Aw heck who am I kidding? Those people don’t mean our citizens any harm. The agency that facilitated that didn’t break any laws. Why no...

I sure hope they keep a paper and pencil away from this guy while he’s in prison. I don’t want him doing anything stupid.

You know, like providing firearms to cartel members.

One wonders what kind of a commendation or job advancement he’d get if he did something like that.


17 posted on 02/03/2020 10:16:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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keep a paper and pencil away from this guy while he’s in prison

Yeah, he might Draw up plans for all the other Inmates and like the Kids in sckrool getting tossed out for drawing a Gun in History class .

18 posted on 02/03/2020 10:36:39 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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OWNING A TUBE MAKES YOU A VERY DANGEROUS TERRORIST.


19 posted on 02/03/2020 10:49:42 PM PST by chopperk
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JOE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE CHAIR. JOE IS A VERY DANGEROUS CITIZEN. A TRAVELER IS TAKING HIS LIFE IN HIS OWN HANDS JUST DRIVING THROUGH HOLDREGE. THE JUDGE WAS REALLY BEING LENIENT.


20 posted on 02/03/2020 11:02:45 PM PST by chopperk
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