How was Tate Adamiak sentenced to serve 20 years in prison? Simple. Prosecutors and the court relied upon federal sentencing guidelines to determine how long he would spend behind bars, even though nothing found in his home was actually illegal.
Each launcher had a legal 37mm barrel, which were not attached. Each of these launchers, according to ATF rules, is exempt from being classified as a destructive device as long as their owner had no anti-personnel ammunition. The owner had none.
The ATF has proven it can’t be trusted to carry out its normal duties. Far too many of its members view themselves as a high-speed SWAT team, rather than mere federal agents.
Perhaps the biggest factor that demonstrated that Adamiak’s RPGs were not weapons but training aids were massive holes drilled in the high-pressure area of the tubes – right where an operator’s face would be when firing them.
When those who have worn a badge look at everything the ATF has done, from its incredibly sloppy search warrants to its obscene uses of lethal force, they realize it’s time to get rid of the entire agency.
Adamiak had no idea how badly the ATF would lie about this completely legal purchase. The STEN toy became the most tested and most written about gun of all the legal firearms parts seized by the ATF during their raids.
Patrick Tate Adamiak never sold a single real firearm—not one—even though he sold thousands of dollars per month of military
