Well, when I saw this headline, I thought “Wow, this must be pretty bad, considering their history.”
One of the worst things ATF has ever done
And it was.
Not one of the guns or gun parts the ATF seized from former sailor Patrick Tate Adamiak was illegal. Not a single gun or gun part required any additional paperwork beyond a Form 4473, and most didn’t even require that. Adamiak was always extremely careful and did absolutely nothing wrong.
Every single item that the ATF seized from Adamiak’s home is still sold to anyone who wants one. Most don’t even require an FFL for the transfer since they’re not even firearms but are instead legal gun parts.
So, why is Adamiak serving 20 years in a federal prison?
Good question. Here’s why:
(ATF Agent) Bodell’s incredible deceptions have become almost legendary. He actually turned toys into firearms and legal semi-autos into machineguns.
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- Bodell inserted a real STEN action and a real STEN barrel into Adamiak’s toy STEN submachinegun and got it to fire one round, even though the toy’s receiver wouldn’t accept a real STEN magazine. Bodell actually classified the toy, which are very popular, as a machine gun.
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- Bodell fired five of Adamiak’s very expensive and extremely collectible legal semi-autos, which fire from an open bolt. All the ATF technician could achieve was semi-auto fire, but that didn’t stop him. He classified all five highly sought after firearms as machine guns.
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- Bodell ruled that several receivers that had been cut in half were actually machine guns. The same receivers are still legally sold online and do not require an FFL or any paperwork.
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- Bodell actually rebuilt three inert RPGs, which had holes drilled into their receivers and were stripped of internal parts. ATF’s “expert” added parts from real RPGs until they would fire a single subcaliber 7.62x39mm round. As a result, he classified the RPGs as destructive devices.
So the ATF took Adamiak’s toys, turned them (partially) into (sorta) weapons, and had him sent to jail. For 20 years.
Somebody explain to me why this cocksucker Bodell shouldn’t be swinging from a lamp post? And ditto the fucking judge who allowed this bullshit to be taken as “evidence”?
Note to President Trump: Pardon Adamiak yourself, and have Kash Patel take action against Bodell, just prior to closing down the entire ATF. If you don’t, then why did we elect you?
The liberals are unhinged.
Govt agents who do things like this to innocent Americans should be sent to prison for a long time (20 years or more).
“Deprivation of rights under color of law”
Did or does ATF Agent) Bodell have a license to manufacture firearms or to offer services as a gunsmith?
If not the DOJ should charge this clown with the appropriate crimes.
Also, wouldn’t this be “malicious prosecution”?
# Disband the ATF
They find Bodell’s bullet ridden body, gutted, and burning with diesel, in a gutter along a deserted rural road.
Ehhh, He’s so sure that he acted appropriately that he would think he was the victim, and any prosecution of HIM would be an embarrassment of the first order.
Because of his actions in framing a man of a crime only he committed, and he doubtless calls the President and his supporters Fascists, he should suffer a penalty as was administered by real fascists, 100 years ago. Tie him to a lamp post or a tree and force an ounce of Castor Oil down his throat. That would be embarrassing to him, if he survived the punishment, in which case it is the same as the diabetic who was kept in jail after January 5th without insulin. “That’s tough. Sucks to be you.
spread Bodell’s fetid corpse out. Sent bits and pieces to each of the states with atrocious anti rights laws, such as CA, CO, NY, an extra bit to NYC, MA, CT, NJ, RI, IL with a bonus piece for Cook County etc etc
Been following this closely for a while. The ATF implied that as a Master-at-Arms, he was stealing US Navy guns and parts and selling them and used a questionable confidential informant as the basis for their search warrant.
Perhaps most telling was the US Navy’s reaction to this witch hunt. The Navy had been fast tracking him to become a Navy Seal. When he was arrested and charged, they looked into it but never reprimanded him. Never demoted him. Continued to pay him. Let him burn through all his leave. Then issued him an honorable discharge.
https://thegunwriter.substack.com/p/atf-lied-to-convict-sailor-now-serving
What a bunch of assholes. ATF needs to go… NOW.
And Bodell needs to go to jail…NOW!
Jail? As stated above, he ought to hang by the neck until dead.
Pour encourager les autres, of course.
Certainly there was no crime until Bodell touched the “guns” (Toys to mentally normal people).