A new federal indictment accuses Kristopher “Justin” Ervin of Orange Park and Matthew R. Hoover of Coloma, Wisconsin, of conspiring to illegally distribute unregistered conversion equipment, which the indictment equates with distributing machine guns. The list of charges from a federal grand jury in Jacksonville replaces one filed last spring against Ervin alone, detailing new claims from investigators’ probe of his online sale of credit card-sized metal strips under the product name Auto Key Card. [More]
Because the Founders clearly wanted you punished if you had one of these.
Note the way "real reporter" Steve Patterson dismisses John Crump as "a self-described firearms journalist."
Go cover a City Council meeting, Steve.
[Via Jess]
2 comments:
Given batfe's penchant for compiling databases with or without lawful basis we can be assured that the name and address of every purchaser of one of these has been discovered and is on a list awaiting the greenlight to arrest.
What is on the Auto Key Card is not an auto link. The card shows one or more pictures of an auto link. Is possession of a picture of a marijuana leaf the same as possession of a marijuana leaf?
In ruling that a picture of an auto link is an auto link, ATF is pretty close to violating rulings handed down in this case:
https://www.wired.com/2000/08/court-to-address-decss-t-shirt/
and this one:
https://www.dcs.k12.oh.us/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1862&dataid=1924&FileName=Sony_Betamax_Case_Summary.pdf
and of their own policy that an 80% lower is not considered to be a firearm.
But the suggestion that ATF itself may be in violation of existing law hasn't slowed them down much in the past.
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