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Former Blackwater president charged with, according to the press, using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons.
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April 19th, 2010 at 9:14 am
“Federal law prohibits licensed firearms dealers such as Blackwater from having more than two of the same style of machine gun.”
Wait, really?
April 19th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Yup, demo letter abuse…
April 19th, 2010 at 9:27 am
To expand: A Class 3 SOT (dealer in Title II weapons) can only have post-sample guns for the purpose of using them as sales demonstrators for .gov agencies.
April 19th, 2010 at 9:56 am
This doen’t have anything to do with demo letters. The weapons in question were transferred to the Sheriff’s office not to Blackwater. The Sheriff then made an agreement with Blackwater to store the weapons at Blackwater’s facility.
April 19th, 2010 at 10:19 am
So they were “the sheriff’s guns”?
A rural NC SD needed 17 buzzguns? Bought with taxpayer dollars? Which they then stored elsewhere?
No wonder BATFEIEIO smelled a rat.
April 19th, 2010 at 11:33 am
This doesn’t smell right.
I would think that a company that specializes in military-zone security and ‘other purposes’ would have the juice to obtain full-auto arms legally.
If their rep isn’t as strong as it’s made out to be, it does sound like they tried to get around the NFA.
Not that the NFA doesn’t deserve going around.
April 19th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
That was my first thought, too. I bet there’s some details that we’re not being told (surprise, surprise).
April 19th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Wait, regardless of their state of assembly, any firearm would require an export license under the US International Traffic In Arms Regulations. The barrels would require an export license if shipped independent of long rifles. Once lawfully exported, the firearms would not be under the jurisdiction of the BATF.
Lord only knows why these contractors would procure their arms in the US given the long time lag for an export license to where they need them.
April 19th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
it is more likely semi auto weapons because autos are tracked so tightly that there is not way a straw purchase could happen unless he stealing identities. NO ONE IN THIER RIGHT MIND who could qualify to buy class III weaps is gonna put themselves out there that way. How Soopid can u get??! BUY MORE AMMO
April 19th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
The ATFE specifically and the Obama administration generally are a bunch of proven liars. I believe nothing they say without concrete proof, and I note that the ATF has previously been caught manufacturing concrete proof.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
There’s no formal limit on how many of one kind of post-sample a dealer can have. Limitations are applied as a matter of policy on the part of ATF, not as a matter of law. Besides, there are ways around it.
Either a lot is not being made public, or the guys at Blackwater are/were massive idiots. It’s not hard to get that 07 or 10 FFL and make all the machineguns, SBRs, etc. you want – or to get a 08 or 11 FFL and export them. All that trouble to avoid a few grand a year in licenses and taxes, plus internal paper-shuffling costs? Doesn’t make sense.