Maryland shooting range owner acquitted on charges of illegally acquiring machine guns

[BriMac]

https://lawenforcementtoday.com/maryland-shooting-range-owner-acquitted-on-charges-of-illegally-acquiring-machine-guns

 

[Palladin]

nice

 

[center442]

I think the one comment in the link sums it up nicely:

"The only conspiring here was between government agencies against American citizens. As usual."

 

[KBCraig]

"If Krop had been convicted, he could've faced as many as 31 years in federal prison, along with fines of $1,250,000. The defendant rejected two different plea deal offers from federal prosecutors who hoped to avoid testing the merits of the criminal charges in federal court."

Dude must wear a kilt, and clank when he walks.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Was this a "LE demonstration letter" case?

 

[dcmdon]

Was this a "LE demonstration letter" case?

My guess is yes.

Prosecutors accused Krop of colluding with Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins to illegally acquire seven different automatic weapons,

This is such a stretch. No local LE agencies actually want select fire weapons. All of these demo letters are about cops having fun and the dealer getting to keep the gun. It's been going on for decades. And it's perfectly legal. If the LE issues the demo letter, for whatever reason, it's legal.

Hopefully this will show the ATF the error of their ways.

 

[Tartakovsky]

My guess is yes.

Prosecutors accused Krop of colluding with Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins to illegally acquire seven different automatic weapons,

This is such a stretch. No local LE agencies actually want select fire weapons. All of these demo letters are about cops having fun and the dealer getting to keep the gun. It's been going on for decades. And it's perfectly legal. If the LE issues the demo letter, for whatever reason, it's legal.

Hopefully this will show the ATF the error of their ways.

It wont

 

[timbo]

It wont

I was going to say the same thing.

 

[drgrant]

It wont

If it's annoying enough that it might threaten their regulatory authority they might back off. Pretend you are an ATF thug... would you rather have a paper tiger you can use to threaten people with that works 999 out of 1000 times, or go FR with it and then suddenly because of court action, have that authority (effectively) restricted and enshrined in case law? Given the newer gun cases and shit like Chevron the ATF eventually is going to wish they just warned the guy and issued "corrective advice " instead of trying to prosecute.

 

[dcmdon]

It's like prosecutors not prosecuting people who turn out AR lowers and sell them illegally because they don't want to make case law because an AR lower doesn't actually meet the ATFs definition of a receiver.

This is a rare well researched CNNarticle on this topic

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/us/ar-15-guns-law-atf-invs/index.html