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Iowa police chief kept and sold department machine guns, officials say
Seattle Times ^ | 21 Dec 2022 | By Daniel Wu The Washington Post

Posted on 12/21/2022 9:25:36 PM PST by blueplum

Police Chief Bradley Wendt had a long shopping list for his department in Adair, Iowa. Between 2018 and 2022, he requested around 90 firearms, including rifles, submachine guns and a .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun, an indictment alleges.

Prosecutors say Adair’s police department never staffed more than three full-time officers during that period...

Wendt is accused of using the weapons, some of which prosecutors say he obtained through a gun store that he also owns, for his own personal gain...

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: atf; badcops; banglist; bradleywendt; courts
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To: blueplum; SaveFerris; PROCON

“Was that wrong?”


21 posted on 12/21/2022 10:38:31 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: TigersEye

I think it comes from the “charged patrons to fire police department weapons in a public “machine gun shoot” he advertised on Facebook”

I haven’t heard of any PD doing something like this. Seems more like a gun shop stunt - I guess it’s ok, unless he pocketed the fee collected from the shooters?


22 posted on 12/21/2022 11:22:24 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

I guess I am the only one to see the oddity and comment on it. This is the story of an Iowa Police Chief and Gun Store owner. And yet the story is in the Seattle Times of Washington State.

Seattle is a very ultra liberal location. The Seattle Times hasn’t seen a piece of gun control legislation it doesn’t love. So what is a Seattle reporter doing breaking this story? Was it fed to him? Did the Seattle Times actually assign an investigative reporter to look for and find a police chief buying too many military style weapons anywhere in the country?

Something does not smell right. I think that the story was leaked to the Seattle Times reporter by someone closer to what was happening in Iowa.


23 posted on 12/21/2022 11:42:45 PM PST by Robert357
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To: blueplum

Ah, sorry, it was a Washington Post Story. Yes, I can see the Washington Post assigning an attorney to look for such things all over the country.


24 posted on 12/21/2022 11:44:25 PM PST by Robert357
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To: blueplum

“Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms”, now, that sounds like a “party”


25 posted on 12/22/2022 12:45:31 AM PST by Warrington
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To: Warrington

I lived in rural Iowa for eight years. It’s not Mayberry. Processing plants employ thousands of illegals. Trailer home parks attract all sorts. My neighbor found a Mexican national executed in a bean field. Never bring revolver to an AK fight.


26 posted on 12/22/2022 12:52:42 AM PST by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

bttt


27 posted on 12/22/2022 12:58:12 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Robert357

You are not the only one. That was the very first thing I noticed.


28 posted on 12/22/2022 2:28:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Ex gun maker.
"...ATF is very fond of sticking it to small dealers to create their desired “Precedent” in an effort to tighten their grip and put more dealers out of business..."

Yes. I would agree with that assessment. ATF is despicable.

29 posted on 12/22/2022 2:29:49 AM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: blueplum

Shooting hogs in Iowa is a very different game from shooting hogs in Texas. He runs the risk of seeming downright unneighborly.


30 posted on 12/22/2022 3:06:01 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Robert357
The article was originally published in WaPo.

It fits the anti-police, anti-gun narrative so the story got picked up by various publications around the country. That being said, this chief should do time for these crimes, if they are true.

31 posted on 12/22/2022 3:16:16 AM PST by thefactor
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To: KierkegaardMAN

I tried to get a job in rural Kansas.

I always wondered if it would be similar to that as there were reported drug problems in the two cities I was hoping to stay in. Meth, I think, was one.

Bizarre


32 posted on 12/22/2022 3:42:04 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: blueplum

Who bought the ammo for the .50 cal?


33 posted on 12/22/2022 4:31:23 AM PST by Flint
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To: blueplum

It’s easy to imagine Adair,Iowa as a hotbed of crime,mayhem and intrigue. A SWAT team...robot bomb handlers...and a direct line to the Governor would be essential there.


34 posted on 12/22/2022 5:45:35 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: kiryandil

DIRT not so cheap anymore-—:) :)

Property prices are nuts.


35 posted on 12/22/2022 8:24:43 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Ex gun maker.
I am sure there are very few here who really know the in’s and out’s of these allegations

And when has that EVER stopped FReepers from spouting off about ANYTHING? LOL!!

Merry Christmas

36 posted on 12/22/2022 9:11:11 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: kiryandil

Overpriced. Can get for 2.50 each, on up.


37 posted on 12/22/2022 9:22:03 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper

Yes, it has been noted that Cheaper has been overpriced since the ammo shortage.


38 posted on 12/22/2022 9:42:59 AM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: TigersEye

Smells of self-dealing. At a minimum.
Competitive bids not required?


39 posted on 12/22/2022 10:22:22 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: blueplum; Honest Nigerian

Sounds like the illegality of it is in the details but his actions overall are pretty weird, I’ll say that.

This I’ll say for sure, I’d love to shoot a Ma Deuce some day, if I can afford to, and I don’t care who owns it or how they got it. :)


40 posted on 12/22/2022 6:22:29 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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