"It's extremely irresponsible and most likely actionable negligence," Charlotte, North Carolina, attorney Monroe Whitesides tells me. The Board Certified Specialist in Criminal Law is talking about BATFE's treatment of competition shooter John Glover, who had seven firearms seized and was indicted for manufacturing an illegal machinegun. If convicted, Glover was in danger of federal prison. As part of his investigation, Whitesides accompanied firearms expert Len Savage, of Historic Arms LLC, to the Cabarrus County Sheriff's firing range. There, BATFE Agent Michael Cooney, who wrote the report declaring one of the seized rifles fired "automatically," set out to prove it on...