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 ...
“Was that wrong?”
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?
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.
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.
“Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms”, now, that sounds like a “party”
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.
bttt
You are not the only one. That was the very first thing I noticed.
Yes. I would agree with that assessment. ATF is despicable.
Shooting hogs in Iowa is a very different game from shooting hogs in Texas. He runs the risk of seeming downright unneighborly.
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.
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
Who bought the ammo for the .50 cal?
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.
DIRT not so cheap anymore-—:) :)
Property prices are nuts.
And when has that EVER stopped FReepers from spouting off about ANYTHING? LOL!!
Merry Christmas
Overpriced. Can get for 2.50 each, on up.
Yes, it has been noted that Cheaper has been overpriced since the ammo shortage.
Smells of self-dealing. At a minimum.
Competitive bids not required?
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. :)
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