Conviction of man for owning a faulty gun

[dukalmighty]

[quote][KBCraig wrote:
He was sentenced to 30 months.

. He said the abandoned gun was recovered either by local authorities or a civilian.

Doesnt that cover everyone?/quote]
It coulda been recovered by not so local authority's lol

[brianko]

Just in case anyone is interested a few updates on David Olofson:

http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/08/d ... pdate.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/11/b ... ofson.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Someone to think about in case you're of the belief that the government will never attempt to take away that which is rightfully ours.

[txmatt]

Well, sadly it seems like that is what the ATF is going for here... to make all owners of legal semiautomatics afraid that they are one malfunction away from felony charges. If this is how they are operating under the Bush administration I really don't look forward to the next four years regardless of who wins in November. I really don't think giving up on semiautos is the correct response to this problem, though, rather a legislative fix making clear the definition of a machine gun and standarizing testing proceedures (any providing for accountabilty to demonstrate that those proccedures are followed) is needed.

This would require:
1. An actual malfunction to occur
This happens. I would say it has happened to me but then, according to the ATF I would by admitting to a felony
2. Be at a public place with others around.
Some of us don't have our own ranges. In fact I would be willing to venture that most of us don't. So most of the time we are shooting we are in a public place that likely has others around
3. Someone from the ATF at the range to hear it and investigate. At a range the size of PSC it would be difficult unless he was on the same line.
Or someone to report it. Not that I would know, but when you are on a non-rapid fire range (particularly one almost entirely occupied by a troop of Boy Scouts with .22s) people tend to notice when your entire magazine empties with one trigger pull
4. That ATF agent to be completely unreasonable if it was truly a malfunction. If you notice it does autofire and keep doing it then woe to you. I doubt one burp is gonna get you in the pokey.
This guy was repeatedly autofiring wasnt he?
This statement has two very big problems. First, you have to rely on the reasonableness of an ATF agent. I'm not saying that all ATF agents are unreasonable, but I don't want to have my non-felon status arbitrarily rely on the reasonableness of any particular ATF agent on a particular day. Second, the guy who was convicted wasn't the one firing the weapon, thus he was not "repeatedly autofiring." And the person who testified that he knowingly fired an illegal machine gun is not only a free man, but was paid by the ATF to testify.

thanks for the update.

[Liberty]

Glad to see the GOA is helping him out.