Posted on 05/23/2024 10:42:53 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Members of a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday over the recent shooting death of Bryan Malinowski, former director of Little Rock's Clinton National Airport.
Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted an early-morning raid of Malinowski’s home in March after he was alleged to have been selling guns to criminals. He allegedly bought over 140 guns from 2019 to 2023.
An affidavit written by the ATF detailed at least six instances where a gun was found with someone in commission of a crime and three other instances where Malinowski sold guns to undercover ATF agents. When an undercover agent asked if Malinowski would sell his family member a gun, he allegedly responded “cash, not paper.”
During Wednesday's hearing, Bud Cummins, an attorney for Malinowski's family, said his client crossed “a very murky line” with the gun sales, but said the events of that morning “made him angry.” Later in the hearing, he admitted that his client shot at ATF agents before he was killed.
In the warrant, the ATF explained their reasons for asking to search Malinowski's house. They said they wanted to search his home computer for records of his sales. They also wanted to look at his computers to see if he had formed “information networks.”
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So the ATF says they did not follow federal law for lack of funding. Is that an allowable exception to the law?
If so, was Bryan Malinowski's ATF supposed ATF violation also due to a lack of funding?
Amazing how there is not more coverage of this in the MSM.
The "criminals" were, apparently, a couple people busted for weed possession.
My understanding was that he wasn't breaking state law, but the newly "reformulated" fed interpertation.
The wording from NPR reminds me of the media justification for Waco.
And just like Waco, they could have arrested him on the street at anytime.
They WANTED him to defend himself so then could execute him.
Who told the police to turn off their body cameras? And why.
As your screen name declares...
Before WACO became a funeral pyre, the ATF should have been demonetized, deballed, deconstructed, and denounced in front of the American people as a rogue unconstitutional murderous agency fully deserving of its destruction and the incarceration of the entirety of it’s leadership.]
...and now? “We the People” are stuck with them?
So noone gets busted anymore for possession of pot, until it suits the ATF in their narrative?
Jim Jordan made that one guy apologize to the Widow who was standing there in the bearing room.
He was not selling guns to hardened criminals.
The "Legally Armed" youtube channel has a good video, on this case.
It will shock any normal American.
This story becomes REAL NEWS when the ATF perps are arrested, tried, convicted and sent to the Big House!
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