The Daily Prison Life of a Wrongly-Convicted ATF Target
We’ve never mentioned, until now, how Adamiak spends his days behind bars at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, which is home to about 4,000 other federal inmates.
We’ve never mentioned, until now, how Adamiak spends his days behind bars at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, which is home to about 4,000 other federal inmates.
This latest proposal by ATF appears to be part of the ongoing effort announced as a “new era of reform” as posted on the ATF website earlier this year.
One former ATF official said Mitchem reached out to her former colleagues after leaving in efforts to target GLOCK and GLOCK-type handguns.
“If he would have had an FFL, they would have visited him every 365 days. The ATF wanted to send a message to people saying, “Don’t play in this area or we’ll mess you up.’”
The public now knows that ATF’s RPG training device can fire live rifle rounds without an RPG and that the device itself—and an RPG—are legal for civilian sales. The kit even came with an ATF letter stating it was “not a destructive device.
The original Uzi submachinegun was developed for the Israeli Defense Forces by Uziel “Uzi” Gal in the late 1940s, and
Adamiak’s case is the first time the ATF has ever charged anyone with violating the NFA for a bunch of legal gun parts. Unless action is taken quickly, based on ATF’s own sordid history, it won’t be the last.
Yesterday ATF published a laundry list of proposed changes to NFA form in the Federal Register and among them is removal of the CLEO notification mandate.
“Once again, it appears U.S. gun dealers and the Second Amendment have been taking the rap for violent crimes in another country, when the truth is staggering.”
Rep. Ben Cline led his colleagues in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives urging its acting director to make certain employees essential workers, warning current parameters are leaving gun owners’ applications for certain items in limbo.