Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/

Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute.

Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun. Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction.

"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term. Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.

A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders — sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police — buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from the Deep South to the Midwest, Northeast and California coast.

lol, lmao

[marble falls]

1. My son and his best friend came out the Army and the Marines at the same time. These two had been friends ...

...since grade school. They went down to the Miami area to cool out from their experience: my son from an extra 11 months in Iraq due to Stop Loss, and his friend from tours of Afghanistan.

Their plan was to go to the Bahama's where my son's friend's dad had a boat yard and charter service. After about 6 or 8 months, the friend instead of cooling, was having a bad time of it and one afternoon after an argument with a woman he was attached to, went to my son's apartment and took a shot gun and went home - in the same complex - and shot himself.

After the investigation was finished, the police asked my son if he wanted to come and pickup the gun. He said 'no', and to melt it down.

After he came back up here to Marble Fall (he had a rough time of it and had been arrested in Miami for violence), we got him to finally go to VA and seek treatment for his injuries from Iraq and PSTD. It changed his life back and he finally went to Alaska where he met a wonderful woman and he's doing very well.

Within weeks of him leaving for Alaska, we got a call from ATF regarding that shotgun and something in Maryland they did not give details about. My wife told them that as far as we all knew, the police in Miami had melted it. They told us they would check out the story and if there were more questions they would definitely be back to us.

They've never gotten back.

In Texas, it's a dirty little secret that confiscated weapons that are not released back to the owners end up in collectors and cops' collections and resold to gun dealers. It's just another income stream in a lot of sheriff's offices.

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm not surprised by this news.

[LearnedHand]

3. Great. Ouroboros police agencies

... serving and protecting the shit out of us.

[Clouds Passing]

4. It's happening in police and sheriff departments all over the country.