Like you and me, only better
Policeman has illegal machine gun. He gets probation. It was a department gun and they cite ATF bureaucracy.
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April 1st, 2015 at 3:03 pm
He’s not “little people.”
April 1st, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Yes, well, all past injustices aside, and looking at First Principles; this man has a constitutionally protected right to own a machinegun and that right has been violated. There’s no justice possible here, until the NFA is repealed. I’m on the former cop’s side on this one, especially if he were to own up to the facts (among which is that the NFA should be repealed in full) and work for the cause of justice.
Yes; many other people, people who were never cops, would have been hit much harder on this under the NFA, probably being sentenced to ten nyears. That is injustice. That sort of injustice does not call for more injustice in this case.
If the former cop in question here were an anti second amendment activist (of which we see no evidence in the article), he should be prosecuted on that point alone, quite apart from the matter of the machinegun which he as a human being has every right to purchase and possess. See how that works (or should)?
April 1st, 2015 at 4:06 pm
the NFA needs to be repealed.
April 1st, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Lyle, you have to beleive in equal application of all laws even unjust ones. You would have been locked up for years, felon, never hold a gun or a good job again… He… Will get paid leave and a pension later on.
Classes of Nobility is FAR worse than you can’t have a machine gun.
April 1st, 2015 at 6:34 pm
I see your point, Other Steve, it’s just that I don’t see one injustice making up for another. It’s a matter of how you look at it, or it’s a matter of First Principles verses Second Principles.
Anyway; the regular guy that’s sitting in prison for a paperwork violation isn’t going to be set free because a former cop got a stiffer sentence. He’ll be set free once we see the stupidity and the evil of the NFA and repeal it, and fully pardon, and try to compensate, all those who were prosecuted under it, AND prosecute those who violated their Oath of Office or otherwise conspired to violate constitutionally enumerated rights.
It’s a matter of the concept of Justice being quite apart from group verses group, and sucklike.
All that being said; I could see a stiffer sentence for those in law enforcement, who of all people should know better. Still though; according to the constitution and the American Principles of Libertry, the guy did NOTHING wrong in this particular case.
April 1st, 2015 at 7:32 pm
“the NFA needs to be repealed.”
ALL laws that restrict and/or deny a Constitutionally guaranteed right need to be repealed.
April 1st, 2015 at 7:36 pm
I recently had a former BATFE agent tell a story about how one of his prior partners routinely carried around an unregistered High Standard derringer in its Wallet-Holster, while on official duty.
“But he’s dead now so no one cares,” was how the story ended.
Obviously no one cared when he was alive, either. Rules for thee, but not me.
April 2nd, 2015 at 10:04 am
Well, at least we now know that people don’t kill people, bullets kill people-at least when the bullet is fired by a LEO.
April 2nd, 2015 at 11:04 am
@Lyle
“Anyway; the regular guy that’s sitting in prison for a paperwork violation isn’t going to be set free because a former cop got a stiffer sentence.”
Yes, but if everyone got the same sentence we might get more allies to repeal the unjust law. Do you really think LEOs would support the NFA if it affected them every bit as much as it does the regular people? As long as they get special treatment they have no incentive to abolish the law, and it is largely special treatments that allow these kinds of laws to exist in the first place(Congress exempting themselves from Obamacare anyone?). Enforce equal treatment and the cover a lot of these unjust laws have goes away.
Expanding on what Other Steve says, the existence of “classes of nobility” are what allows these laws to exist and function in the first place, and that indeed is a greater evil than prosecuting everyone equally under an unjust law.
April 2nd, 2015 at 3:33 pm
I don’t think his position as a former LEO mattered as much as has been portrayed. The issue in the judge’s eyes appears to have been that he was brought in to decide a wrongful termination/former employee issue. It would probably make us all more informed to know:
1) Did the previous employer spitefully terminate the accused?
2) Was there any record of texts, emails, or phone calls between the accused and the supervisors about the issue?
3) Did anyone in authority ever just call and say “hey, until the paperwork clears up you need to return the rifle to the police station”.
4) Did the accused bow up and tell them all to get f’ed?
Point being, the judge ruled that the accused’s version of the story was equally plausible. I would venture a guess that this was a case about hurt feelings and bad supervisor/employee relationships.