Wrenn Update
Subguns.com has the press release from the South Carolina US Attorney regarding the Wrenn case:
Evidence presented during the trial, which started on November 7, 2005, established that on June 20, 2002 Special Agent Baldwin of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives visited the defendant, Ernest Wrenn, owner of Poor Man’s Gun and Pawn Shop, at 614 Atomic Road, North Augusta, South Carolina, in order to pick up Maxim machine gun kits which had been deemed illegal by the Firearms Technology Branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. At that time the defendant provided Special Agent Baldwin with a written statement, in which he falsely represented the number of items from the Maxim machineguns that were still in his possession. On June 28, 2002 a federal search warrant was executed at Poor Man’s Gun & Pawn and the defendant admitted that he was in fact still in possession of the illegal Maxim machinegun parts Special Agent Baldwin had requested. Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found two (2) fully assembled Maxim machineguns in the defendant’s possession.
The Maxims were only machineguns because the ATF arbitrarily decided they were. They were semi-automatic versions of Maxims.
