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North Carolina and North Dakota Police Chiefs and Federal Firearms Licensees Indicted for Conspiracy to Illegally Acquire Machineguns and Other Firearms
The defendants allegedly intended to impermissibly import into the United States and resell the machineguns and other firearms for profit or to keep for their own use and enjoyment. Sullivan allegedly submitted the false law letters to the ATF seeking to import the machineguns and other restricted weapons. Once the firearms were received, Sullivan allegedly kept some of the machineguns and other restricted weapons and transferred some of the weapons to Vickers, Tafoya, and other conspirators.
In addition to the indictment, Larry Vickers pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in the conspiracy to import and obtain machineguns and other restricted firearms and admitted that he received some of the imported machineguns and other weapons. As detailed in his plea agreement, Vickers kept some of the machineguns and other restricted weapons in his personal collection and transferred other machineguns and restricted weapons to other FFLs and third parties. Vickers also pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions against a foreign firearms manufacturer between July 2014 and March 2021, in the Southern District of Florida.
Vickers faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to violate federal law regulating firearms and a maximum of 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin has not yet scheduled sentencing for Vickers.
Notice, no allegation that the weapons were used or would ever be used to commit any "gun violence."
NFA is unconstitutional. In essence, they are charged with keeping and bearing arms.
[edit] looking at the images there it's Vicker's guilty plea agreement, including a statement of the charges/facts he's pleading guilty to, which he signed on 10/19. There are two counts. The first involves the LEO demo letters with no demo. The second is about his efforts to continue working with Kalashnikov after they were sanctioned by the US Government in 2014.
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Joe_Blacke wrote: ↑October 21st, 2023, 8:33 am
This isn’t a just an NFA issue.
This is a violation of sanctions, primarily with Russia. It just happens to involve guns as a sanctioned item.
Larry knew full well what he was doing. It all smacks of him thinking he is untouchable because of who he thinks he is.
Agreed. The arrogant Vickers thought he could get away with violating the unconstitutional law. He probably could have, too, but he missed his renewal payment when he was dealing with cancer, and that's what attracted attention. Now he is screwed.
pneuby wrote: ↑October 29th, 2023, 1:36 am
Johnny did a good job breaking this down so as to not hurt my brain........
No he did a horrible job. He claims this is about corporate espionage.
The simple facts is that sanctioned Russians and Russian companies were trying to find a way around sanctions. To that end, they enlisted Vickers and others. The Russians gave them everything from money, blueprints, etc. There was no espionage involved.
Vickers betrayed his country for money, just like a lot of traitors.
