I won't pretend to argue this is the story of the century. But how can anyone pretend to argue it is not a story at all? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explores what economist and syndicated columnist Walter Williams calls "sins of commission and omission."
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David, in your last examiner column, two commenters said that Olofson's gun actually had a three-position select fire switch, and they cited the decision documents. What's goin on here? Is his gun really is select-fire, and if so, why did the BATF have to work so hard to trick it with dubious ammo?
ReplyDeleteif i remember correctly he was told not to use the unmarked setting because it would break.
ReplyDeletein other words, a rifle not equipped for automatic function in the first place will jam and misfire when the trigger group is positioned incorrectly.
the logic of the conviction is that any one component of an automatic system is grounds for deeming it an automatic rifle, if you can get it to imitate automatic fire, even if that imitation is accomplished through other means than the component in question, even if that imitation is in fact the gun jamming and misfiring, and further, nobody is allowed to question the imitation process in court -- it "has no bearing."
i would assume this would then be applied to components common to automatic and semi-automatic configurations!
ReplyDeletedoes your rifle have a barrel?
how about a trigger?
did you know that if either breaks and in the process the firearm discharges more than one round that you now have an assault rifle?
So, the switch by itself does not an automatic rifle make. And the rifle would break if it wasn't in either "safe" or "fire". Got it. That's why Len Savage wasn't allowed to testify. The thugs, er... *ahem* "prosecution" might not have gotten the verdict they wanted.
ReplyDeleteLen's comment from a different post:
ReplyDelete"In that statement was a reference to Olofson stating the selector switch had a "third" position but to not ever put the switch in that position."
How many FAL's have a third position on the selector?
In older AR's and FAL's it is possible to put the selector in the third position. Does that make them machineguns? NO! It creates a hammer follow malfunction. This just means the hammer follows the bolt into battery.
Results???
You fire one shot, have to eject a live round and rechamber another round of ammo. It makes it a single shot bolt action....
ATF had the same results when it was tested the first time....
Olofson was forbade by the court from doing an independent test or from even examining the evidence against him....not to mention his court qualified expert [ME] was was removed from the courtroom during ATF's testimony leaving his attorney [who never tried a gun case] to try and understand the technical testimony of ATF on his own.
Ask yourself this question:
What if this trial was about DNA sequencing? Your hired doctor or professor of DNA science was removed from the courtroom during the governments DNA testimony, and left your attorney to try and understand what he was talking about????
All nice and legal???
We shall see.....
Len Savage
The "third position"; not Soviet, not Nazi, but an improved fusion of the two. German efficiency plus Russian ability to define reality according to their terms.
ReplyDeleteAs for the media, they LIKE this sort of government "crime prevention" work. Call them on it. Go to their website and find the "Contact us" link and explain what's really going on. Search out the managing editor's email. Typically it will be firstinitiallastname@publication.com. If the Associated Press reports on this at all, it will be how a domestic terrorist was prevented from supplying right-wing extremists with military weapons. Idiots.
Did a google search on "Olofson" at 10:25 Wednesday morning. Some gun rights websites, most with months-old information.
ReplyDeleteDid a search on "Robert McFarland Lincoln Park Police." THAT man is FAMOUS.
I have to wonder. If it had been DANIELLE Olofson, 20, blonde and kinda shy on camera and kinda cute, with the malfing AR-15...