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 nationwide review of government audits and court records over the last 20 years uncovered at least 50 cases of police illegally selling their weapons online, through dealers, out of their homes or the back of their cars. In many cases, the weapons were sold to gun enthusiasts, often at steep markups as high as 10 times what they were bought for.
The article gives multiple examples of LEOs engaging in grossly unlawful sales including a CBP officers in Los Angeles selling guns out of his trunk.
The next time someone whines about the "gun show loophole," point them to this article.
Mostly CLEOs, because they can write their own permissions.
ReplyDeleteBut the real problem is the unconstitutional and unnecessary GCA 68, which limited the sales, and created a system of artificial scarcity