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David H. Roberson's avatar

DOGE needs to do a thorough house-cleaning at this agency. I expect there are some good people there but anecdotes similar to this indicate that some are not.

Jerome's avatar

Good people do not work at BATF.

Sian's avatar

Adamiak was clearly very careful about what he sold and what he owned, probably anticipating the possibility of a raid, given his special forces background and high gunbroker rating.

That still didn't save him from blatant agency criminal malfeasance actively encouraged by the Biden administration, but at least there's a chance that those responsible will get their feet held to the fire now.

Chris B's avatar

Fraud, waste and abuse. This seems to qualify on all three elements for a DOGE'ing.

Arthur Sido's avatar

It would be difficult to believe this story was true, it is that outrageous, but unfortunately it seems completely plausible to anyone with a working knowledge of how the ATF regularly screws up and then changes the "facts" to cover-up their screw up.

Henry's avatar

This wasn't a screw up. Like everything the ATF does, this was blatantly intentional with malice aforethought. The ATF is the Democrat Party's version of Joseph Stalin's secret police, whose tyrannical leader Lavrentiy Beria famously said, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime."

Arthur Sido's avatar

You might be giving them too much credit, I suspect they thought they had something and when it turned out they didn't they just manufactured "evidence".

Henry's avatar

Naive nonsense like that is exactly what the ATF hopes people will "suspect." I give the ATF credit for exactly what it is -- a tyrannical gang of thugs operating above the law to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm the American people.

What do you think the ATF thought it "had?" Those Denix fake guns are all over the internet and YouTube. People pay ridiculous prices for them. They're OBVIOUSLY nothing more than totally inoperative replicas, thousands of which are owned by American citizens. There's nothing mysterious or questionable about exactly what they are -- FAKE GUNS, no more dangerous than a kid's plastic toy six shooter.

The ATF thugs are evil but they're not stupid. You'd have to be totally gullible to think that scumbag Bodell worked so hard to refit that replica in order to make it fire a single round as some kind of mistake.

Thanks to the corrupt American justice system, Bodell and the ATF managed to send Adamiak to prison as a purposeful act of terrorism against the American people's ownership of guns in ANY way, shape or form.

The ATF **MUST** be totally eliminated and its records all destroyed if America is to retain any semblance of a nation of freedom.

Trump could do it but I seriously doubt he will.

cody's avatar

He might as well have just had the real one.

Lee Williams's avatar

Sad but true, brother.

Ken Windeler's avatar

Did Adamiak have a jury trial? The question I have is, how could a reasonable jury not see through all of this "evidence," and what kind of judge would permit it?

Douglas Ferris's avatar

Agent Jeffrey Bodell needs to be sued personally along with the ATF for perjury, malicious prosecution, infringement of 2A rights, etc. along with damages of what Patrick Adamiak would have achieved if his life wasn't stolen. DOGE needs to defund and prosecute all the cases that were illegally rigged by council and judges.

David Charles's avatar

Seems like the wrong person in this matter is in jail.

Wanna start restoring any faith in, or support for federal agencies? Start throwing THEIR people behind bars.

J R's avatar

The federal agencies gestapos need there own trials and be convicted and sentenced to a rope neck tie party its long over due, nothing else would be Justice

Martin Landry's avatar

do these guys have any real firearms or atmorer training? Zinc alloy receiver, zinc alloy barrel, can't accept a magazine? Ever heard the term 'wall hanger'? Wait one, "taped the barrel to make a tight fit"? How many shots (if it could fire multiple rounds) would that last?

Sean Valdrow's avatar

THIS is why all BATFE agents should die. They endlessly commit crimes against the People of the United States with impunity. This MUST end. The best ending would be one where every BATFE agent and former agent are hanged from streetlights.

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Lee Williams's avatar

I hope DOGE gets Adamiak out of prison. That's step Number One.