Navy Vet Jailed Over ATF Lies and Toy Guns

by Lee Williams

It now seems that the one means former American sailor, Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, might get out of his undeserved 20-year jail sentence is thru a presidential pardon, as a result of federal prosecutors at the moment are utilizing the lies and faux proof created by the ATF to battle an attraction filed by the 31-year-old former Navy E-6, who had simply been accepted by Naval Particular Warfare earlier than his arrest. 

Adamiak has been in federal jail for nearly 30 months. It might probably take as much as half of a yr for his court docket hearings.  

In a letter to prosecutors despatched Feb. 14, Adamiak’s appellant legal professional identified that his shopper by no means possessed something unlawful. Prosecutors, sadly, don’t appear to care. 

Matthew Larosiere, Esq., Counsel for Appellant Adamiak, cited United States v. Justin Bryce Brown, in a letter despatched to the Clerk of the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 

“The argument discovered to be missing in Brown is in all materials respects an identical to the argument introduced by the federal government beneath in opposing Appellant’s movement to dismiss,” Larosiere wrote. “Appellant feels it vital to notice the objects charged in Brown had been practical machineguns, versus the non-functional objects charged right here.”

In different phrases, Adamiak had gun components however not any unlawful firearms, and he definitely had no machineguns. 

However in a response mailed 5 days later, Assistant United States Lawyer Jacqueline R. Bechara continued the prosecution’s the-guns-are-real tactic.  

“As a result of Adamiak’s possession of an unregistered machinegun fell outdoors the scope of the Second Modification, the district court docket correctly denied his movement to dismiss,” Bechara stated in her response. 

In a second letter to the Clerk of Courtroom despatched March 28, Bechara describes Adamiak’s firearms even additional, though she is totally fallacious. 

“Right here, the proof at trial established that the PPSh-41 is a ‘machinegun’ as a result of it’s a ‘weapon’ which ‘is designed to shoot, or might be readily restored to shoot, robotically multiple shot, with out handbook reloading, by a single perform of the set off,’ and that the grenade launchers and anti-tank missile launchers had been ‘damaging machine[s],’ as a result of they had been ‘weapons, which is able to, or which can be readily transformed to, expel a projectile by the motion of an explosive,’” Bechara wrote. 

AUSA Bechara declined to be interviewed for this story, however there are some things to remember concerning her newest authorized declare. Each single PPSh-41 that Adamiak owned had its receiver minimize in half. There was no means any of the gun components kits he owned would shoot “robotically multiple shot, with out handbook reloading, by a single perform of the set off.”

ATF’s lies   

After their informant lied and dozens of closely armed ATF brokers kicked open Adamiak’s door throughout a search warrant, nothing unlawful was discovered. Consequently, the ATF was pressured to name of their ringer, Firearms Enforcement Officer Jeffrey Bodell.

As soon as the ATF turned the case over to Bodell, Adamiak’s innocence now not mattered. Bodell would break the principles. He really turned toys into firearms, authorized RPGs into damaging gadgets and 100% authorized semi-autos into machineguns.

Bodell inserted an actual STEN motion and an actual STEN barrel into Adamiak’s toy STEN submachinegun and obtained it to fireside one spherical, despite the fact that the toy’s receiver wouldn’t settle for an actual STEN journal. Bodell really categorized the toy, that are extremely popular, as a machinegun. The toy STENs are nonetheless utterly authorized and extensively offered.

Bodell take a look at fired 5 of Adamiak’s very costly and very collectible authorized semi-autos, which fireplace from an open bolt. All of the ATF technician might obtain was semi-auto fireplace, however that didn’t cease him. He categorized all 5 extremely wanted pistols as machineguns. These semi-autos are nonetheless authorized, very collectible and extensively offered. At the moment, one can fetch from $3,000 to $5,000, and so they can nonetheless be bought identical to every other firearm, with solely an ATF Type 4473 and background examine.

Bodell dominated that a number of receivers that had been minimize in half had been really machineguns. The identical components are nonetheless legally offered on-line and don’t even require any paperwork.

Bodell really rebuilt three of Adamiak’s inert RPGs, which had holes drilled into their receivers and had been stripped of inside components. Bodell added components from ATF’s actual RPGs till they might fireplace a single subcaliber 7.62x39mm spherical. Consequently, he categorized the RPGs as damaging gadgets, despite the fact that to at the present time they’re utterly authorized and extensively offered.

Bodell’s lies had been legion. 

He really turned toys into firearms, authorized RPGs into damaging gadgets and 100% authorized semi-autos into machineguns. All of what Bodell insisted had been unlawful objects are nonetheless offered legally on-line: Inert RPGs, toy STENs, submachinegun receivers and particularly open-bolt semi-autos. 

The RPGs, toy STENs and submachinegun receivers don’t require any paperwork to buy.

Adamiak’s plight 

Adamiak dedicated no crime, so why is he nonetheless serving a 20-year sentence at a federal jail in New Jersey? 

As a result of the ATF screwed up, and they might slightly cost an harmless man, kill his elite army profession and power him to serve twenty years behind bars than admit the reality—that their particular brokers don’t have a clue about what they’re doing.

Bodell’s alleged “analysis” can be hilarious – particularly his turning a toy STEN right into a machinegun – if Adamiak wasn’t serving 20 years behind bars because of this. 

Adamiak’s attraction is on maintain for authorized causes. Due to this fact, the quickest means he might stroll out of jail as a free man can be a presidential pardon. 

If President Donald Trump must know what sort of a person he’d be pardoning, Adamiak can be the right selection. All he desires is to return to the Navy and resume his profession. He’s sincere, selfless and devoted to serving this nice nation. That ought to be all President Trump must know. 

A few crazed ATF brokers, overzealous prosecutors and an anti-gun choose took the whole lot from this younger man – his freedom, his repute and all of his hard-earned possessions. Nevertheless, Adamiak is keen to overlook and forgive and return to work preserving us protected. All he wants is the chance. 

In a short interview Monday, Adamiak stated: “I simply need my life again. I need to return to what I devoted my life to, which was serving the nation. I need to return to my profession within the Navy regardless of all that has occurred to me. I’m nonetheless a patriot and love this nation.”  

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