Gunnerpalace writes:
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it strikes me that there are some hellish problems with this entire case
This is true the details will continue to be hashed out for years to come but the three things that unsettle me are:
Ranges that tell on their members,
The possibility of a double-fire and the precedent that I could go to jail for it,
The fact that Mr Olofson acted as his own lawyer (feel free to do what you wish but this was an extremely bad idea), and he has set the case precedent for trials to come.
Re your last, you likely could not be more correct, as with he who tries his own case has a poor attorney and a fool for a client.
Re The possibility of a double-fire and the precedent that I could go to jail for it, given that I had 1911 pistols go FULL AUTOMATIC in two instances, and in two instances pistols of the same design fired two shots with a single actuation of the trigger, I guess that I'm really lucky that there weren't any monkeys around with telephones.
As to the following, Ranges that tell on their members, I saw in another post, mention of the following. That this particular range had a strict policy prohibiting full automatic weapons and the firing thereof. Being that as it may, it still appears that this entire fiasco, a polite term or art, arose from a MALFUNCTION. Second interesting point appears to be that The Congress, in it's law making activity, originally failed to differentiate between the function of a machine gun and a malfunctioning semi-automatic rifle. It appears that this is the crux of the matter, for if the law had been written PROPERLY there would have likely been no problem, though of course when dealing with the BATFE, one can never be sure.
At this point, I'm not sure as to what else can be said. As I understand, appeals have been taken, leaving it for a higher court to decide. We shall see, how the thing ultimately turns out, Either way, the Dept. of Justice will not come out of this smelling like that proverbial rose. As for the BATFE,m they have long had a bad smell about themselves, and the passage of time has not improved it. The sir, at least in my view, as above mentioned, there is The Congress, and their input. Seemingly, it gets worse.