Bryan Malinowski, the 53-year-old executive director of the Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, died two days after exchanging gunfire with ATF agents who raided his home at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. His death raises questions about whether he knew he was trading gunfire with federal agents, or if he thought their no-knock raid was a home invasion.
Malinowski’s family cannot understand what led to the gunfight and believes other less-lethal tactics should have been incorporated into ATF’s arrest strategy.
“The ATF burst into his house, and they did it in a manner that was the most dangerous combination possible.” Bryan’s brother Matthew Malinowski told local media Wednesday. “The easiest way to have taken care of this situation – the most common way – would be to wait until he gets in his car, pull over and arrest him. Or you wait until he comes to work, and you arrest him there.”
One ATF agent received non-life-threatening wounds during the gunfight and is expected to fully recover.
After the ATF SWAT team breached the front door, an agent whose name has not been publicly released shot Bryan Malinowski in the head with what his brother described as a “high-caliber rifle.”
Private sales to prohibited person?
According to the ATF’s search warrant affidavit, Malinowski was suspected of selling guns at gun shows without a Federal Firearm License, including several sales to prohibited persons. The affidavit states he purchased 142 firearms from 2019 to 2023.
Six handguns he sold were later used in crimes, the affidavit states. One of those arrested cooperated with the ATF. In addition, undercover ATF agents bought three guns from Malinowski at a gun show.
“Malinowski was operating as a vendor with approximately 2-3 tables by himself. The tables Malinowski was operating had a rack with AR style pistols, two containers with various pistols, and several boxes of various types of ammunition. Underneath the table were recognizable gun boxes and other firearms not on display. The first undercover agent approached Malinowski, who began describing various firearms he had on display. Those firearms included pistols manufactured by Glock, SCCY, and Beretta. Malinowski further described the AR style pistols as not considered rifles because they did not have an arm brace on them. Malinowski stated he sells at gun shows in Benton (Arkansas), Conway (Arkansas), and at a music hall in Memphis (Tennessee). Malinowski stated he sells out of AR pistols, like the ones he had on display, very quickly at the Memphis gun show,” the affidavit states. “Malinowski stated he was a private seller therefore no paperwork was needed to be filled out for a purchase. Malinowski stated the customer just had to be over 21. Malinowski stated he receives payment via cash, PayPal, and Zelle.”
A statement by Malinowski’s family who had seen the affidavit, said he was “accused of making private firearm sales to a person who may not have been legally entitled to purchase the guns.”
“Our family has endured an unspeakable tragedy and one that is almost impossible to understand. We are mourning the loss of Bryan, who passed away earlier today. Our thoughts and prayers also go out to the government agent who was injured yesterday, and to his family. We do not understand the government’s decisions which led to a dawn raid on a private home and triggered the use of deadly force. We are obviously concerned about the allegations in the affidavit released by the government today. Even if the allegations in the affidavit are true, they don’t begin to justify what happened. At worst, Bryan Malinowski, a gun owner and gun enthusiast, stood accused of making private firearm sales to a person who may not have been legally entitled to purchase the guns. For now, we will wait for all the facts to come out. In the meantime, we ask that the public and the media respect our privacy,” the statement reads.
Malinowski’s family hopes something good can come from their loss.
“We’re looking for organ donations, if possible. The funny thing is you can’t even do that because his body hasn’t been released by the ATF. So even if he was able to donate organs – and he’s got very many healthy organs – we can’t even do that because the ATF is not responding. So, not only is the ATF hurting him, they’re hurting other people, too,” Matthew Malinowski told local media Wednesday.
Bryan Malinowski collected firearms and rare coins, his brother said. He was a prominent and respected member of the community, lived in an affluent West Little Rock neighborhood and earned more than $250,000 per year at the airport.
“Something stinks to hell,” Matthew Malinowski told a local NBC affiliate Wednesday.
The fatal shooting will be investigated by the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division. The CID commander, Major Stacie Rhoads, did not return calls seeking her comment Thursday. Once CID’s investigation is complete, state prosecutors, not federal, will determine whether any ATF agent should face criminal charges.
According to his airport bio, Bryan Malinowski had more than 30 years of airport leadership experience. He first joined Clinton National in 2008 as director of properties, planning and development, and was promoted to deputy director a year later. He became executive director in 2019. Malinowski was a pilot and certified flight instructor.
Bill Walker, chair of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission, announced Malinowski’s death Thursday on the airport’s website:
“With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of our executive director Bryan Malinowski. Bryan was a 16-year employee of the airport. Under his leadership, our airport has experienced significant growth and success, expanding services and offerings to our community and state. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Bryan’s wife, Maer, loved ones and friends.”
A history of violence
This is not the first time ATF has been accused of using excessive force. There were scores of lives lost at Waco, and a Deputy U.S. Marshal and Randy Weaver’s wife and son were killed during ATF’s Ruby Ridge siege. The agency’s infamous Operation Fast & Furious resulted in the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican nationals.
After Waco and Ruby Ridge, like in Malinowski’s case, ATF officials were criticized for not using other less-lethal arrest tactics.
In a similar raid last year, more than a dozen ATF agents wearing tactical gear and armed with AR-15s stormed the rural Oklahoma home of Russell Fincher, a high school history teacher, a Baptist pastor and a parttime gun dealer. Fincher now believes their goal was to scare him into relinquishing his Federal Firearm License.
“It was like the Trump raid. They called me out onto my deck and handcuffed me. My son was there and saw the whole thing. He’s 13 years old,” Fincher told the Second Amendment Foundation last year. “They held me on the porch for about an hour. I was surrounded by agents. One by one, they yelled at me about what I was doing. In my mind, I decided if they were going to beat me up over every little thing, I’m done. As soon as I said, ‘If you want my FFL, you can have it,’ one of the agents pulled out a piece of paper and said, ‘Well then sign here.’ He had made three copies in case I screwed one up. It was exactly what they wanted. I was shocked.”
The raid prompted Fincher’s state representative, Justin “JJ” Humphrey, to call for a state grand jury to investigate ATF’s conduct.
Humphrey, who has served as a law enforcement officer for more than 30 years, prepared a probable cause affidavit that he presented to the Oklahoma Attorney General and Fincher’s local sheriff, which outlines the crimes and civil rights violations he believes ATF agents committed when they sent the 12-man SWAT team to Fincher’s home.
“I struggle with seeking charges against fellow police officers,” Humphrey wrote in the affidavit. “However, it appears ATF is abusing their police powers and violating their oaths of office. I believe the ATF has committed crimes and violated Fincher’s civil rights and due process of law.”
Officials at ATF’s Little Rock Field Office did not return calls seeking their comments for this story.
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I wondered when this would hit TTAG.
“According to the ATF’s search warrant affidavit, Malinowski was suspected of selling guns at gun shows without a Federal Firearm License, including several sales to prohibited persons. The affidavit states he purchased 142 firearms from 2019 to 2023.
Six handguns he sold were later used in crimes, the affidavit states. One of those arrested cooperated with the ATF.“
oh, wow- you’re right… good kill.
look femwee, nobody wonders what you wonder about.
i knew about the bp/ amoco merger before you.
follow? go ahead peepee toucher, state that this man deserved to die. dare.
yep, along comes Miner49er, like all left wing anti-gun, to metaphorically dance in the blood of atrocity once again.
“i knew about the bp/ amoco merger before you“
Sure you did.
But I must tell you, I don’t view someone bragging about their close ties to multinational Big Oil as necessarily all that patriotic.
But I’m sure you make lots of money and that’s all that matters to you, right?
“go ahead peepee toucher“
There you go again, thinking and posting about other men’s genitalia, it’s just creepy AF.
theBidens granddaddy was a CEO for Standard oil I think.
It’s probably what helped keep our beloved president in new cars when he was a highschooler.
Stfu, rapist
Hey ArseMiner, why do you hate black people so much? Gangs are the gun problem, and NOTHING else, but you evil leftists never mention gangs. I wonder why?
What crime did he commit other than doing things Democrats don’t approve of?
Nothing a jack booted fascist like miner loves more than violence by .gov thugs.
“What crime did he commit other than doing things Democrats don’t approve of?“
From reading the article, it seems he sold guns to prohibited persons. And it seems some of those firearms were used in crimes.
The article indicates that information came from the search warrant affidavit, which was presented to a judge to attain a search warrant.
While I realize many folks on this list think guns should be supplied to anyone who has the money, regardless of criminality, age or mental defect, America still has laws against that sort of thing.
Of course, if he had been required to do universal background checks, he would’ve known that those he was selling to were prohibited persons.
But really, I don’t think he cared, he was just wanting to make money and wasn’t worried about the dangers of arming those who have proven themselves unworthy of possessing firearms under our laws.
Can we have UBC’s on voting, herr miner?
“America still has laws against that sort of thing”
You never answered my question. What crime did he commit? Name it for us.
Here’s the search warrant affidavit, I hope this answers your questions:
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/documents/2024/03/21/IN_THE_UNITED_STATES_DISTRICT_COURT.pdf
This is what they suspected to initiate the fatal raid. I’m looking at the probable cause. So far, it sounds like they didn’t have evidence that he committed a crime.
Title 18
922(a)(1)(A) dealing in firearms without a license
922(a)(6) unlawful acquisition of a firearm
Here it is on page 35 of the file, paper page 29:
Based on the foregoing information, they believe there will be evidence of crimes located in Bryan’s house and car. That’s it. That’s why they got the warrant. There was no crime committed that they knew of.
Stfu, rapist
@Miner49er
“Here’s the search warrant affidavit, I hope this answers your questions:”
A search warrant affidavit is not substantiation or evidence or actual probable cause of a crime committed.
the question was this:
“What crime did he commit?”
Miner49er, learn what context means.
@Dude
“So far, it sounds like they didn’t have evidence that he committed a crime.”
And you would be correct. They had zero “evidence that he committed a crime”, without intent to commit a crime for their allegations there was no committed crime – that’s why they needed the search warrant, it was a fishing expedition for evidence. Its also why they did not have actual probable cause, they did not have intent, thus there was no arrest warrant. That’s also why they needed the search warrant, it was a fishing expedition for evidence to substantiate intent to substantiate actual probable cause to effect an arrest.
@Miner
Here are the receipts you requested. Now what?
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/biden-signs-pro-gun-billwell-not-exactly/#comment-7067596
And thank you very much, I think it’s clear now why you avoided posting the citation or web link to the text you quoted.
Really, is your authority on this Elizabeth Warren?
“By making it harder for people to discharge their debts and keep current on their house payments, the 2005 bill made the 2008 financial crisis significantly worse,” she argued.“
Do you think that because Joe Biden and other Democrats would not go the full distance that Elizabeth Warren wished for, that somehow means the legislation was bad for consumers?
Well, I’m sure glad to see that you are recognizing Senator Elizabeth Warren as an expert on the value of financial legislation for Americans.
Can we expect your support on other bills she sponsors?
She wasn’t the only person making that argument. That’s even a different quote than the one I originally used. Go back and reread it. I wasn’t try to hide information that wasn’t even present. Nice try deflecting. Which part of the quotes do you disagree with, Miner? As usual, as soon as I provide the source you were crying for, you change the subject.
The fact that Progressives were against Biden & Company on this is an even better reference. Elizabeth Warren is the progressive among Progressive Democrats. You have previously proclaimed that you’re a Progressive. Are you saying that you’re actually aligned with Big Finance, and against consumers?
Your problem is the same problem with most on the Left. You don’t really believe in anything except power.
“Can we expect your support on other bills she sponsors?”
You seem to forget that I’m not a partisan. You’re projecting again.
“making that argument“
Yes, some were making arguments for and against, that’s the nature of legislation.
But you still have not specifically identified what in the legislation harmed American consumers.
Just saying ‘some people made an argument’ against the legislation is just more empty speech.
“I’m not a partisan“
It makes no difference whether you are a partisan or not, you are citing Senator Elizabeth Warren‘s arguments against this Bill as justification to attack Joe Biden over his support of the legislation.
Again, I’m impressed you are attaching merit to progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren’s opinion regarding this legislation, I think we’re making progress!
“But you still have not specifically identified what in the legislation harmed American consumers.”
What are you talking about? It’s self-explanatory. People were already deep in debt when the economy crashed. Then, thanks to Joe & Company, some of them no longer had a way to get out of that debt, which made a bad situation much worse. Are you seriously that dense?
“I’m impressed you are attaching merit…”
In other words, you can’t find anything to disagree with. I was right from the beginning. You’re twisting yourself into a pretzel again because you’re a disingenuous person who doesn’t believe in anything other than The Party. If you disagree with anything I said, then, by all means, lay it out. If not, then move on.
Anyone who cites Warren as an expert for any reason will be interested in a time share condo Ihave for you in Port au Prince. Surely someone of your obvious intellect will be willing to invest a mere 2 million after demonstrating your intellectual acumen so publically.
Stfu, rapist
The person making an argument doesn’t matter if the argument is correct. I don’t agree with most of her positions. However, she has a long history of being a consumer advocate. That put her at odds with Biden, Hillary, & Company who were working on behalf of Big Finance. Word is that Warren was also a decent professor, unlike the Puppet, who is so senile, he now believes his own lie that he was a professor.
“Then, thanks to Joe & Company, some of them no longer had a way to get out of that debt“
Still no specificity, exactly what section of the bill affected folks, what particular policy was implemented and how did it negatively affect those in debt? You’ve got no answer, it’s hilarious.
“Anyone who cites Warren as an expert for any reason… “
Yeah, I was really surprised when he cited her and expressed admiration for her advocacy for stronger legislation.
Dude, I like her position of consumer advocacy as well, but politics is the art of the possible and the Democrats realize they can’t get everything they want in every bill so we are willing to compromise.
You know of course on both the 2009 predatory lending bill and the 2015 bill we’re discussing, the Republicans opposed any protection for consumers.
“…the Republicans opposed any protection for consumers.”
You think I care about that because you’re projecting again. You’re a partisan cheerleader. I’m not. I’ve told you before countless times. You can’t seem to grasp it because you either don’t try to understand any perspective outside of your own, or you’re incapable of understanding simple concepts because you are literally not very intelligent. After years of observing you, I believe it’s a mix of the two.
“You’ve got no answer, it’s hilarious.”
It’s self-explanatory. The reason Big Finance wanted Joe to push for that bill is so that it would be more difficult for people to declare bankruptcy. This happened right before the economy tanked. That made a very bad situation much worse. A child could understand that. Now the Puppet is pretending like he’s trying to fix a problem that he helped to create with the student loan debt.
“I was really surprised when he cited her and expressed admiration for her advocacy for stronger legislation.”
You’re only surprised because you are extremely unaware and dense, as I explained above. There is right, and there is wrong. I don’t care who is saying it because I’m not a partisan, blindly loyal to a political party that doesn’t care about me. I only care about what is right. You’re focusing on political parties and nonsense because you know you can’t object to anything I said. I said much more than this in the original comment, and you begged me for citations. I gave you everything you asked for. You aren’t disagreeing with me about anything. Take another loss, and move on Miner. As usual, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
You believe the feds, how cute.
The ATF killing rednecks gives Minor69er a hard on. He’s furiously pumping as you read this.
minor49iq…You may be helping to cover up a murder. Let’s say you sold your car and the assumed buyer used it to run over pedretrains. If the DMV showed up at 6:00am and shot you in the head over that would that be OK with you on face value alone? Answer Yes or No.
TRUMP 2024.
“gives Minor69er a hard on“
Good grief, now you’re posting about other men’s genitalia.
You really need to get out more, or maybe try ‘Adult Friend Finder’ like Donald Trump‘s pal Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
Computer Blues didnt work out so well for that Texas woman in Margwets Vineyard
Ah gee after you recommended that male hooker to Nancy Pelosi’s husband I thought you’d be able to come up with something better than adult friend finder, especially since you and Obama were so close.
“You really need to get out more, or maybe try ‘Adult Friend Finder’ like Donald Trump‘s pal Bernie Moreno in Ohio.”
It would be better than trying to get lucky by sniffing and groping women and children, and inviting ‘imaginary women’ in the form of trans to the white house, like Biden does.
Thank you, I can’t read…
So what? The sales were legal. The only thing they had on him was “engaged in the business” without a license. That was yet to be proven in court. If you think the ATF hit (and it was a hit) was just, I sincerely hope that you’re next and I’ve never wished anything like that on anyone in my life.
Good little MARXIST willing to support and participate in MURDER!!!!
Guess that’s why ATF hit Hunter so hard when he illegally bought firearms. Right skippy?
So, he was shot in the head by the taxman.
The ATF had been following him, had a tracker on his car, knew where he was all the time, literally had hundreds of other times they could have arrested him. But instead, on the most flimsy of excuses, not justification but excuse, in the entire thing the ATF chose to literally create a condition where they could exercise their readiness and willingness to kill and that’s exactly what they did and, essentially, murdered him.
The ATF is sending a message to the gun community and that message is ‘We are going to kill you and will create the conditions under which we can do it and the president has essentially ordered your death by creating executive orders weaponizing us against you.’
The guy did nothing that justified this. Every one of these ATF agents involved in this should face criminal charges, and if Dettlebach signed off on this he should face criminal charges also.
the freeze dried corpse of j. reno is chortling.
They get the evil bad guys at home soe’s in case of a shute out it doesn’t happen in public where innocent bystanders might get hurt.
Oh duh on me, it’s the BATFE, there are no innocent.
I suppose they chose not to torch the place because of the rare coin collection.
Melted coins aren’t of much value.
Yes, you are correct, if they attempted to take him down in a public area, there could easily be innocent victims.
If there are indications service of the search warrant will be resisted, they come early in the morning so there’s not likely to be people out in the neighborhood and the subject is more likely to be psychologically and physically unprepared to resist.
Justifying the atrocious practice of early morning police raids. I thought you “liberal” types were against such things. They are needlessly dangerous.
He worked at an airport. Probably a pretty safe place to arrest him. It’s full of people like you, in TSA uniforms, keeping everyone nice and safe.
“Probably a pretty safe place to arrest him. It’s full of people… “
No, it’s not a “pretty safe place” because “it’s full of people”.
At any given time there are hundreds if not thousands of people in a confined area, and while there are security checkpoints for some areas, the executive Director could carry anything he wanted anywhere in the airport without question so he would be even more dangerous than the average suspect.
I am sure glad you’re not scheduling Search warrants for the ATF, that would be really bad.
Just as the ATF used a gas on women and children at WACO that was banned under the Geneva Convention the ATF was again proves that it excels at the slaughter of defenseless civilians. No doubt it recruits using DEI methods and has recruited many of miner’s kinfolk. You know all those academic sociology types like to interbreed, especially after their done with those sheep. Like the FBI who specialize in shooting down dangerous women armed with deadly babies miner defends fascists because he longs to man the ovens. What’s the matter chinless wonder, Antifa and BLM too rough for you? I mean all those butch wymen too tough for you?
“At any given time there are hundreds if not thousands of people in a confined area, and while there are security checkpoints for some areas, the executive Director could carry anything he wanted anywhere in the airport without question so he would be even more dangerous than the average suspect.”
now you invent even more unsubstantiated BS.
“undercover ATF agents bought three guns from Malinowski at a gun show” – sounds like entrapment to me/authorization for an execution by the JBTs.
Why aren’t the ATF JBTs down at the border helping “process” “migrants”? Perhaps Obiden has them doing more important things?
Entrapment, Randy Weaver knows all about that.
Fck The Batfeces
“The guy did nothing that justified this“
Well, if he had complied with the law and not been selling lethal weapons to prohibited persons, perhaps law-enforcement would’ve had no reason to be involved.
The sales were legal, nitwit. The warrant says he was “engaged in the business” without a license. Private sales do not require a background check in many states. That the guns were later used in crimes is irrelevant.
Who were those prohibited people. None were named nor the items specified. And as we all know the Feds never, ever lie, especially Biden’s stasi.
Knowingly so that can be proven? Yeah didn’t think so.
“Well, if he had complied with the law and not been selling lethal weapons to prohibited persons, …”
For which there is absolutely zero proof that he committed any crime or did not comply with the law. They didn’t even have probable cause to get an arrest warrant, and on the application for the search warrant they could not check the box for ‘arrest’ under the basis section because they did not not have probable cause for an arrest. If that box is checked you have to supply the probable cause for the arrest, they couldn’t supply that because they did not have probable cause.
For around two years the ATF followed this guy, had a tracker on his car, had him under surveillance, yet not one shred of evidence or intent he actually committed a crime or did not follow the law, never applied for an arrest warrant because they did not have actual probable cause, never tried to arrest him because they did not have actual probable cause, and then finally had to apply for a search warrant so they could go on a fishing expedition to find evidence.
You’re the evil destroying society, miner!
Amen, this is EXACTLY what the message is. They murdered him and they did it to show “We The People” not to buy, sell or own guns.
No, the people can buy, sell and own guns, they just can’t sell guns to folks who have been prohibited by laws passed by the United States Congress.
Well, per ATF best practices:
“An unlicensed individual may transfer a
firearm to another unlicensed individual
residing in the same State, provided that he
or she has no reason to believe the buyer is
prohibited by law from possessing firearms.”
https://www.atf.gov/file/58681/download
You missed a few words there, as is your habit. In federal law, it isn’t necessarily illegal to transfer a firearm to a prohibited person in a private sale. It is illegal to do so if you have a reason to believe that the buyer is a prohibited person. “…reason to believe…”
Show the Marxist British Subject, doesn’t know US gun laws and is a propagandist who is willfully a paid propagandist by the ANTI-GUN cabal!!!
Really a judge said illegals can own guns. I guess according to the Left it really depends on who the Left approves of who can own a gun or not rather than what the law says. After all we need only look at NYC to see how the Left tortures the law and makes a mockery of justice or the Jan 6 hearings to see how they torture the truth. In fact I’ve seldom seen a liar like miner, not Schummer, AOC, Pelosi. He is a psychopathy in his own league. I wager he is a prize employee of Soros.
Stfu, rapist
Well heres hoping a speedy recovery for the heroic unnamed BATFE agent.
It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to blitzkrieg a lone American citizen when your only armed with automatic weapons and wearing bullet proof vest.
I’m over exuberant that our President has authorized the killing off of all these citizens whom think they have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Long live the Democracy. 🇺🇸🤣
Good that they remembered to reset theie Stazi issue sundials or it would have been light when they conducted their home invasion.
“these citizens whom think they have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms“
That was not the reason, he received the attention because there was evidence he was selling firearms to prohibited person.
He had been exercising his right to keep and bear arms for decades and there’d been no problem. The justice system did not become involved until he broke the laws passed by Congress against selling lethal weapons to prohibited persons.
So, illegals have a right to own guns. But citizens better follow the rules?
Pretzel. Miner keeps saying he broke laws, but he won’t tell me which ones. The warrant admits that they didn’t have evidence that he broke any laws. They thought there would be evidence in his house and/or vehicle.
Which prohibited persons skippy? What laws were broken? Why wasn’t he charged at his place of work? Because Biden’s Stasi aims to intimidate and terrorize ordinary citizens. Meanwhile the Left tells us illegal aliens can own weapons.
The lawless Left is such a joke. They need to be taken out and given the Antifa treatment they so defend. I self identify as BLM. Therefor we should burn down every blue city in America because of racism.
“Which prohibited persons skippy?”
The investigation is not over, that information is usually withheld until it’s presented in court. A sitting judge read the application, and signed the search warrant, that’s what’s known as ‘due process’.
“What laws were broken?”
Typically, charges are unsealed when the subject is arraigned, in this case because the subject is deceased, that information will be revealed when the investigation is complete.
“Why wasn’t he charged at his place of work?”
The subject worked at a major airport where there are thousands of uninvolved individuals in close proximity, the search warrant was not for the airport but rather his personal residence.
“Meanwhile the Left tells us illegal aliens can own weapons“
No, it is the constitution and the militia Act that expressly recognize the right of people (as opposed to just ‘citizens’) to keep and bear arms.
Doesn’t matter much now, does it? The broke in his home and shot him ded.
Knowingly so?
“he received the attention because there was evidence he was selling firearms to prohibited person.”
false.
there is what the ATF says, and thats not evidence.
There is absolutely zero proof that he committed any crime or did not comply with the law. They didn’t even have probable cause to get an arrest warrant, and on the application for the search warrant they could not check the box for ‘arrest’ under the basis section because they did not not have probable cause for an arrest. If that box is checked you have to supply the probable cause for the arrest, they couldn’t supply that because they did not have probable cause.
For around two years the ATF followed this guy, had a tracker on his car, had him under surveillance, yet not one shred of evidence or intent he actually committed a crime or did not follow the law, never applied for an arrest warrant because they did not have actual probable cause, never tried to arrest him because they did not have actual probable cause, and then finally had to apply for a search warrant so they could go on a fishing expedition to find evidence.
Do you honestly believe governments never make mistakes? When governments killed 260 million people in the 20th century it was justified? Is that your stance Miner?
Now do Hunter.
I wouldn’t do hunter with your d*ck.
The big guy will arrange for hunter to od before he can bring down the ‘family’.
“your d*ck”
Wow, now you’re posting about other men’s junk, get a room!
I’m a possum please do not put the disgusting label of hu man on me.
Thank you.
“Wow, now you’re posting about other men’s junk, get a room!”
Why are you so concerned about people mentioning male genitalia in conversations you are not part of?
Is it because you miss yours after ‘transitioning’ in identity?
It’s ALWAYS the left who are protective of the pervs in America. Sick, evil, twisted left.
Miner will take care of Hunter’s “needs”.
Hunter Biden self-reported that he had been using illegal drugs when he purchased a firearm.
When charged, Hunter Biden surrendered, was arraigned and made bail, and is now awaiting trial.
Talk about BSing..
He denied he was on controlled SUBSTANCE when he filed out the 4473 form..
Talk about blatant lie!!!
“Hunter Biden self-reported that he had been using illegal drugs when he purchased a firearm.”
False.
He lied on the 4473. denied that he was a user of a controlled substance.
The only way you know any of this about Hunter is because Hunter self reported in his book that he had purchased a gun while he was using illegal drugs.
There was no investigation, there was no police report, Hunter Biden authored a book wherein he publicly stated his mistakes while he was addicted.
“In several recent court filings, special counsel David Weiss extensively cited the president’s son’s 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” as evidence that he claimed improper tax write-offs and that he was using drugs when he bought a gun.“
“Weiss has also charged Biden, in a separate case in Delaware, with unlawfully owning a gun as a drug user. In proceedings in that case, he has cited Biden’s book as evidence that he used illegal drugs regularly during the time he bought the gun.“
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/24/hunter-biden-memoir-criminal-evidence-00137708
I’m surprised you folks didn’t realize that Hunter self reported his purchase of the gun during his addiction.
I imagine you get surprised a lot.
bit…according to you Miner49er > “…when he purchased a firearm.”
when he purchased the firearm he lied.
He lied on the 4473. denied that he was a user of a controlled substance.
learn what context means.
“He lied on the 4473. denied that he was a user of a controlled substance“
Yep, and he self reported his crime three years ago in his book, and they’re using that as evidence to justify the charge.
Besides, you folks have claimed for decades that form 4473 is unconstitutional, yet now you want to prosecute Hunter Biden over it.
Smells like… Acute hypocrisy.
you claimed this… “…when he purchased a firearm.”
that is false.
“…when he purchased a firearm” he lied on the 4473. denied that he was a user of a controlled substance.
as usual you lied Miner49er, and now you are trying to weasel out of it by claiming he self reported in a book.
the fact is this, contrary to your false clime that “Hunter Biden self-reported that he had been using illegal drugs WHEN he purchased a firearm.” …he did not self-report WHEN he purchased. had he told the truth on the 4473 WHEN he purchased them he would have self reported WHEN he purchased.
your claim was 100% false.
he lied on the 4473 WHEN HE PURCHASED. denied that he was a user of a controlled substance by checking the box claiming that he was not a user of a controlled substance.
which part of logical context do you not understand? oh wait…never mind the question cause you don’t know what context means.
“Besides, you folks have claimed for decades that form 4473 is unconstitutional, yet now you want to prosecute Hunter Biden over it.
Smells like… Acute hypocrisy.”
its not hypocrisy to want what ever the law is applied fairly and evenly to all even criminals like hunter Biden.
that’s the standard you want to apply to this man the ATF essentially murdered with no probable cause or evidence at all used to actually arrest and prosecute him.
When Trump is elected and fires “Biden’s Bozos” maybe the deep state agencies will be reigned in.
The political appointees are easy to root out. It’s the middle level professional bureaucrats that the appointees hire, who keep their ship on the correct (read: wrong) heading for decades after the appointees have gone. THAT group is growing in number, and is the snake that will bite us in the end.
Snake bit in the ass is better then in the throat.
You’re naive if you believe Trump will do a fucking thing….
Now that the courts have ruled illegals can possess firearms, the whole rationale for background checks is moot. Get rid of NICs and the 4473 form. And the ATF.
exactly if illegals with no provable identity can own guns then why should anyone else heve to show I’d?
today I woke up and feel like being a Honduran or something, where’s my phone and ebt card?
First off, the FBI was responsible for the deaths at Ruby Ridge, not ATF. It was not a “no-knock” warrrant; if it was that would have to be justified in the warrant affidavit, which it wasn’t. If you shoot at a Federal agent, you get what you have coming.
Thanks for shaing Ms Reno
How would you know if they were Federal unless they identified themselves? Otherwise, just thugs stealing his coins and firearms.
They are required to knock and announce, which is usually done several times before making entry. In addition, they could have been identified through their markings.
I imagine they recorded it on video for their own liability protection. They should go ahead and release the video so people don’t speculate about it.
You’d have to be a nut to intentionally fire on federal agents. I wouldn’t want them to even see me holding a gun. That would be begging for an execution. This guy doesn’t seem to fit the nut profile, but maybe more will come out later.
“It was not a “no-knock” warrrant; if it was that would have to be justified in the warrant affidavit, which it wasn’t. If you shoot at a Federal agent, you get what you have coming.”
You are correct, this search warrant was never authorized for no-knock. The ATF ignored that, they intentionally did it no-knock.
The ATF essentially murdered him by intentionally creating an intentionally hostile and dangerous situation that looked exactly like a criminal home invasion happening in hours of darkness (it was still dark there) by executing the search warrant as a no-knock warrant when it was not authorized for that.
I’ve been talking to a couple of the cops that were there, a couple I know in Little Rock. They were told by ATF they were just going to serve the search warrant normally and knew the warrant was not authorized for no-knock. They were shocked when the ATF did what they did, and although they were outside they were close enough and never heard the ATF announce who they were or they had a warrant. This looked exactly like a criminal home invasion happening in hours of darkness (it was still dark there), of course the guy was going to try to defend his home from what he had every reason to think was a criminal home invasion.
“They were shocked when the ATF did what they did, and although they were outside they were close enough and never heard the ATF announce“
That’s certainly some momentous information, I am somewhat surprised they are talking out of school.
Of course, if this information isn’t made public, these officers will come forward with their story to the press.
So we can look forward to learning much more about this in the immediate future I imagine.
STFU, rapist
Let’s take a closer look:
The ATF “rule” that defines what requires a license;
“you need a license if you are ‘Engaged in the business’ of buying and selling guns.
That means devoting time and attention to making a livelihood selling guns.”
But, the reality;
‘There is NO established number in the LAW that turns you into a Dealer that must have a FFL’
Bryan Malinowski sold 150 guns over a 33 month period.
Thats about 4.5 guns a month, for those of you in the ATF who are numerically challenged, its; ‘Four and a Half’ guns a month.
How can that be construed as ‘Livelihood’?
More like ‘A Hobby’
What about that Director Dettelbach?
solution;
Dissolve the ATF,
All ground level agents in good standing transferred to FBI DOJ, US MArshalls etc,
All GS-13s given choice, resign, retire or be fired, and all those above that level; Fired.
BS. ALL armed fed personnel outside of the Marshalls and Dept of War should be discharged with prejudice. These personnel can ENLIST in the Army/USMC if they want to continue in gov’t service but cannot ever be promoted above E6. ALL weapons to be sold to the public thru the CMP.
Marshalls (armed) can continue to exist and will take over POTUS Security. FBI to be dissolved – their pseudoscientific “law enforcement” BS to be assigned some other Fed agency.
“Marshalls (armed) can continue”
I’m sure Ernie Herrman, the CEO of Marshalls will be glad to hear that.
Oh wait, you meant federal marshals… L O L.
“More like ‘A Hobby’
It’s not a hobby if you make a profit, if you purchase guns for inventory, if you set up tables and display your stock in multiple locations, all these things indicate a business as opposed to a hobby.
Give us the exact code of the crime committed, Miner. Your feelings and opinions on the matter don’t count.
Show post the prices he was charging for his firearms!!!
You have ZERO FACTS to prove he was profiting from the sales!!!
Nice try FBI, doing better but lazy posting again.
“It’s not a hobby if you make a profit, if you purchase guns for inventory, if you set up tables and display your stock in multiple locations, all these things indicate a business as opposed to a hobby.”
100% false.
If there was no intent to operate as a business-dealer-requiring-FFL – its a collector/hobby activity.
Stop using the self-satisfying contrived ATF excuse.
This is still the United States Of America – intent to commit a crime or criminal offense still needs to be proven ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ – yes, even with the newer safer communities act.
GREAT JOB!! MajorLiar must strut his communist bona fides -Americans apparently may ONLY resell personal property at a loss, elst they will be deemed to be “in a business” – and are apparently only allowed to, for example, have a yard sale if they don’t “set up tables”. When do you propose to offer us your “rules” on when we allowed to wipe our arses, and what brand of TP we have to use, you Leftist/fascist @$$clown???? I forgot that the Leftist mantra is, “That which is not mandatory, must be forbidden.”
Just f*ck right the hell off, MajorMistake.
We need to abolish ALL the three letter agencies that make unconstitutional rules because it is too hard for the DEMONcRATs to get it done the right way through congress. FJB, FGN
This is the real reason for the raid. We are going to close the dreaded gun show loophole and make sure Universal Background Checks enforced. Most of all, we don’t care how many dead bodies are stacked up.
a little update: turns out the ATF didn’t actually have probable cause after all.
Warrant affidavit:
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/documents/2024/03/21/IN_THE_UNITED_STATES_DISTRICT_COURT.pdf
that’s the search warrant. they didn’t have probable cause for an arrest warrant, which means they could not show intent which means he would have beaten this. no intent for an arrest warrant means the search warrant was a fishing expedition.
they killed this guy for the civil equivalent of driving without a license, a claim they made without having actual probable cause.
No, that is the affidavit for the search warrant, more specifically it’s the motion to unseal the redacted Application as well as the affidavit itself.
This is the search warrant:
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/documents/2024/03/21/UNITED_STATES_DISTRICT_COURT.pdf
Honestly, if you do get in legal trouble I hope you hire an attorney and don’t try to represent yourself, it might turn out poorly.
the decrased victim is literally an innocent man and comitted no crime as alleged by the ATF. no intent, no court, no conviction = innocent and did not commit the offenses as alleged by ATF.
I know this upsets you greatly Miner49er, I mean you were already metaphorically bathing In the blood of the innocent like you do with the blood of the innocent children offered up for sacrifice by ‘gun free zone’ laws that basically guarantee defenseless prey to mentally ill killers.
once again Miner49er, and it doesn’t matter what their affidavit says…without intent for an arrest warrant they have squat..
that’s the search warrant. they didn’t have probable cause for an arrest warrant, which means they could not show intent which means he would have beaten this. no intent for an arrest warrant means the search warrant was a fishing expedition.
they killed this guy for the civil equivalent of driving without a license, a claim they made without having actual probable cause.
the decrased victim is literally an innocent man and comitted no crime as alleged by the ATF. no intent, no court, no conviction = innocent and did not commit the offenses as alleged by ATF.
I know this upsets you greatly Miner49er, I mean you were already metaphorically bathing In the blood of the innocent like you do with the blood of the innocent children offered up for sacrifice by ‘gun free zone’ laws that basically guarantee defenseless prey to mentally ill killers.
Miner49er, i know this all confuses you… you lack the mental capacity to understand what context is…
but this is still the United States Of America…and the Feds require probable cause to arrest for a crime and those crimes have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been comitted.
there was no arrest warrant
there was not arrest warrant because they did not have probable cause for a warrant.
they did not have probable cause for a warrant because they did not have intent.
they needed the search warrant to fish to discover intent.
no intent for an arrest warrant means the search warrant was a fishing expedition.
they killed this guy for the civil equivalent of driving without a license, a claim they made without having actual probable cause.
the deceased victim is literally an innocent man and comitted no crime as alleged by the ATF. no intent, no court, no conviction = innocent and did not commit the offenses as alleged by ATF.
MajorLiar, you COMPLETE NITWIT!! An affidavit is NOT “proof” – it is simply one party’s allegation as to what they would testify to IF they were called to testify. It is NOT “proof” of anything (even that the actual testimony, if given, would be what is alleged in the affidavit . . . or that the witness is credible, OR that they can testify to the allegations from their actual, personal knowledge, OR that the story would stand up to cross-examination).
Words have meanings, MajorMistake; learn a few, you complete LYING Regime apologist. Apparently, you grew so addicted to the taste of Presidential sexual organs, rather than give up your obsession with Barry Soetoro’s schlong, rather than give up that unholy addiction, you just substituted the dusty, decayed, member of the current Drooling Senile-in-Chief. Wipe off your chin, MajorLiar, Presidential juice on your chin is not a good look for you.
“there was no arrest warrant“
I’ve never claimed there was an arrest warrant, I merely provided the link for the motion to unseal and application for the search warrant, as well as the search warrant itself under a separate link.
None of us have any idea of the reality of the situation, but the judge signed the search warrant so take it up with him if you feel there is an injustice here.
I prefer to wait until the investigation is complete and all the facts are in before I declare anyone innocent or guilty of any particular crime.
and if you look closely at your own linked affidavit it even tells you they do not have the evidence of what they accuse, because the reason (basis) for the requested search warrant is to search for ‘evidence’.
Miner49er, once again your lack of knowing what context is and your own delusional confirmation bias.
If they announced before busting in, would that guy really want to go out in a blaze of boolits? What purpose would that serve? I’ll show those heavily armed pussies who’s the tough guy? I call bullshat. Seems like he was living a good life with no reason to commit cop sewerside. His fam better check his coin collection inventory. If it was a nonock entry I’m sure you and I would react similarly. RIP good sir
Tulsi Gabbard Just DESTROYED The Big Gun Control Lie… Like Her Or Don’t This Is A MASSIVE Deal. (note the part where she lays out the Biden tyranny)
This is the result of allowing ATF to conduct raids. ATF needs to have their arrest power removed, they should have to defer to the local sheriff for all arrests. Here is another good reason for citizens to transition to 5.56 for home defense not just for the thugs with badges, but also because the thugs without badges are more likely to come in greater numbers and armor is much more available.
I went through the warrant. There are some things that don’t add up. I think the ATF might have been conducting an unofficial investigation before they began their official investigation. I think they might have done some underhanded things to get the official investigation going. Then, when they conducted the official investigation, the only crimes they laid out were some traffic violations they noticed while following him. I’ll post the weird things later.
Soon this will be forgotten, just like Ruby Ridge.
Weird #1
–November 2023, Canada police received a photograph of firearms by a confidential informant. These firearms weren’t recovered.
–Some serial numbers were visible in the photos, which were submitted as an investigative trace request. During the trace, they identified Bryan Keith Malinowski (Bryan) as the purchaser.
–All firearms were purchased from an FFL.
–December 15, 2023, they opened an investigation into Bryan.
–They reviewed records for 142 firearm purchases from 2019-Dec. 19, 2023.
–Bryan M. usually purchases firearms from Gunbroker.
Did the ATF pull photos from Gunbroker, and send them to Canada police so they could initiate an investigation into someone who they didn’t agree with politically?
Weird #2
–Witness 1 (W-1) was arrested with a pistol purchased at a gun show in April/May of 2022 in Arkansas. The witness identified Bryan in a line up with five other individuals. W-1 asked Bryan if he did any paperwork at the gun show. Bryan said no. W-1 and Bryan texted each other after this, asking about more firearms to buy/sell. W-1 bought a total of three firearms from Bryan from 2022-2023.
–What crime was W-1 arrested for? It only says W-1 was pulled over during a traffic stop.
purchase 1: W-1 bought a [redacted] pistol at a gun show. W-1 was arrested with this firearm in 2022.
purchase 2: February 2023, W-1 purchased a G17 in a parking lot, paid with cash. W-1 was arrested with this firearm two days later.
purchase 3: June 2023, W-1 purchased a Ruger LCP in that same parking lot. W-1 threw the firearm away because [redacted] did not want the firearm. This firearm was never recovered. Hmm….
–W-1’s mother consented to allowing the agent to view W-1’s phone. The agent viewed texts between W-1 and Bryan about firearm purchases.
Was W-1 working on behalf of the ATF?
Multiple ATF agents bought guns from Bryan at a gun show in January 2024.
Then they began observing him and following him.
Weird #3
–February 2024 11:40 a.m., The ATF was observing and following Bryan in his vehicle. He had a black box in his hand when he entered his vehicle. They lost sight of him due to his reckless driving.
They see his vehicle parked where he works at 2:33 p.m.
They follow him home after work. He exited his vehicle without the box!
The ATF determined that Bryan drove in these same areas when he sold guns in that parking lot! Get it? He lost the cops on his tail, so he could go sell another gun in a parking lot before going back to work! Wait, that’s not illegal, is it? Notice how they’re painting a picture for the warrant.
The ATF determined that Bryan was driving his vehicle in an area known for violent crime, and buying and selling contraband such as firearms and controlled substances.
Nothing he did is illegal unless he had the intent to act illegally.
Collectively…below…
Under federal law: Its not illegal to sell a gun to a person on a personal basis for a gun you personally own without conducting a background check or completing a 4473, except to a person you know to be a prohibited person. But! You have to know they are a prohibited person and then knowingly and willfully sell the gun to them.
Under federal law: Its not illegal to sell a gun to an undercover ATF agent on a personal basis for a gun you personally own without conducting a background check or completing a 4473.
Under federal law: As a collector/hobby its not illegal to sell/buy a gun or multiple guns (anywhere, even at a gun show, unless prohibited by the state you are in) on a personal basis IF your INTENT is not to do it as a business (yes, even under the newer bipartisan safer communities act – they still have to prove intent). It is not legal to buy a gun from a prohibited person IF you know they are a prohibited person.
Under federal law: There is no limit on the number of guns one can personally buy/sell.
Under federal law: It is not a requirement to have an FFL license for personal sales of guns your personally own.
It is not illegal to enter your car with a box and then exit your car without the box. It is zero proof of anything.
The ATF claims of needing to have an FFL license or do a background check and 4473 for personal sells of firearms is not a federal law, but rather an interpretation of the ATF.
ATF buying guns undercover proves nothing, just that they were able to buy guns.
The ATF grasped at straws for the entire search warrant. They actually had nothing that could substantiate an arrest warrant – they did not have actual probable cause for if they did they would have had an arrest warrant.
Everything here is what the ATF ‘thinks’ because its their own interpretation. They did not have actual probable cause to substantiate intent which is why they did not have an arrest warrant and why they needed a search warrant – they were using the search warrant to fish for something that would substantiate actual probable cause for intent so they could arrest. An affidavit statement for a search warrant is not the same as actual probable cause for a crime, a search warrant is basically an ‘educated guess’ that what you are looking for is in a specific place because ‘you think’. Actual probable cause happens when it substantiates an arrest or an arrest warrant, they did not have an arrest warrant because they could not show intent to substantiate actual probable cause that a crime was committed – which is why they did not arrest him the numerous other times they had an opportunity to do so.
Based upon their own interpretations, the ATF literally created the condition where they could exercise their readiness-and-willingness-to-kill ‘power’, they made it a public spectacle on purpose, they only had basically ‘we think because we say so’. The ATF went in there ready and willing to kill, no matter that the man thought his home was being criminally invaded by hostile people with machine guns placing himself and his family in danger and acted to defend his family and himself and in doing so engaged the invaders – the ATF came ready and willing to kill because ‘we think because we say so’. This was literally an ATF hit squad – and they are that way because Biden by abuse of executive order to rule by fiat has weaponized the ATF against the American people, essentially Biden ordered the death of this man.
The ATF essentially ‘murdered’ this man by their unjustified and abusive and intentionally deadly actions and being ‘weaponized’ with what is essentially an order to kill by Joe Biden.
They could have simply showed up and knocked on the door to serve their warrant, there was absolutely zero justification for a no-knock home invasion nor was there any justification for swat teams.
“The ATF determined that Bryan was driving his vehicle in an area known for violent crime, and buying and selling contraband such as firearms and controlled substances.”
Everyone in a large city does that at some point, some every day. City workers do it every day in large cities. The whole of Blue cities like Chicago and New York is like that. Everyone in a large city at some point is going to drive their vehicles in an area of the city “known for violent crime, and buying and selling contraband such as firearms and controlled substances” > they just don’t know it.
The Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, the areas surrounding that is “known for violent crime, and buying and selling contraband such as firearms and controlled substances”. The guy worked there at the airport, well duh …of course he would have been driving his vehicle in an area known for violent crime, and buying and selling contraband such as firearms and controlled substances” going to and from work.
But the point is, a person simply driving their “vehicle in an area known for violent crime, and buying and selling contraband such as firearms and controlled substances” is not proof of anything and its not evidence of anything – if it were proof and evidence of a crime most of the large cities would be pretty much empty because the residents would be in jail for committing a crime.
This is the ATF straw grasping trying to create an appearance of ‘wrong doing’. I mean, for around two years they followed this guy, had a tracker on his car, had him under surveillance, yet not one shred of evidence or intent he actually committed a crime, never applied for an arrest warrant because they did not have actual probable cause, never tried to arrest him because they did not have actual probable cause, and then finally had to apply for a search warrant so they could go on a fishing expedition to find evidence.
Then the ATF essentially murdered him by intentionally creating an intentionally hostile and dangerous situation that looked exactly like a criminal home invasion happening in hours of darkness (it was still dark there) by executing the search warrant as a no-knock warrant when it was not authorized for that.
“Did the ATF pull photos from Gunbroker, and send them to Canada police so they could initiate an investigation“
You are postulating that a local ATF office in Arkansas is conspiring internationally with Canadian law enforcement to frame an individual for selling six guns to prohibited persons.
Fascinating.
The same office that executed this guy because they wanted him to get a license so they would have an excuse to officially put him out of business? Yes, I am.
Explain to me how that’s a crazy idea considering that the feds got caught colluding with international intel agencies to take out a presidential candidate, and then president based on a crafted foreign collusion conspiracy theory. Next give me the logical explanation of a ‘confidential INFORMANT’ sharing photos of serial numbers with Canadian police. Then explain to me why you trust these federal agencies that have been caught breaking laws, like altering evidence, so they could get a search warrant. Also explain the constant unnecessary show of force when they want to apprehend a non-threatening person they don’t politically agree with.
I think I know the answer to the last one. You trust them to go after people you don’t politically agree with. That’s why you’re all over this page running cover for them. It’s never about justice. It’s always about power.
“the feds got caught colluding with international intel agencies to take out a presidential candidate“
Is this the Italian satellites beaming up the votes and altering them claim?
Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Note that even their original excuse for beginning their investigation utilized foreign intelligence. Just look into those meetings Papadopoulos (Pop) had with Mifsud and Downer. Mifsud seeded the information (lies) which Papadopoulos merely repeated to Downer during a casual conversation in a bar. Downer tells Australian intel (because everyone having casual conversations in a bar immediately runs to state intel afterwards). Then, they tell US intel.
Why did he meet with Mifsud in the first place? A woman known for working closely with Bob Mueller contacted Pop merely days after Pop announced he was joining the Trump campaign! She suggested the meeting. Then of course the FBI grilled him over these meetings which they knew all about because they set it up. They caught him in a completely inconsequential lie, which was their goal, and the rest is history.
I know you might say well don’t lie. I agree. Imagine if you, Miner49er, did jail time for every lie you told. You would always be in jail. Now imagine the intel agencies working to catch you in a lie. Maybe, just maybe, they should focus on going after criminals. You don’t care about that. You cheer for the state going after non-criminals because you disagree with their politics. It’s never about right or wrong. It’s always about partisan politics with you.
“You are postulating that a local ATF office in Arkansas is conspiring internationally with Canadian law enforcement to frame an individual for selling six guns to prohibited persons”
he did not say that.
stop making stuff up.
“to frame an individual”
To clarify, I never said that, or even insinuated that. I asked if they did this to initiate an official investigation. You can read the words in my comment. Or maybe you can’t. That would explain a lot.
People are corruptible, government is made of people.
It’s fine he was a wealthy white men who was gunned down by police in the early morning hours in a surprise raid. The left doesn’t care about white men being murdered by police. They certainly don’t care about non violent crimes. So this is totally justified according to the bigoted left. We DEFINITELY wouldn’t defund the gun police over straight up murdering a man when there were clearly other less risky ways to serve a search warrant and detainer.
This wasn’t a raid…and it wasn’t an arrest. They could have arrested him at work, on the road, anywhere. This was a message….and an EXECUTION. The message that BATFEces is sending is simple…and blunt. “We can murder anyone, anywhere at anytime for any or no reason. And do so with TOTAL IMPUNITY”.
This is now on the Sheriff’s of this country to end.
F-Troop invented “shock-and-awe” at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
The ATF is sending a message to the gun community and that message is ‘We are going to kill you and will create the conditions under which we can do it and the president has essentially ordered your death by creating executive orders weaponizing us against you.’
I’m a gonna love it when the same happens to the ‘first amendment advocates that oppose the second amendment’ – its going to eventually happen to them too if its not stopped and the Marxist soci – alist left-wing is not removed from power. Even now the Marxist soci – alist Biden is trying to gain control over the first and fourth amendment, even Katanji Brown a left wing justice on SCOTUS has said in a recent case, basically, that the government should have control over speech.
I can imagine it now, Bidens (or democrats) weaponized FBI doing a violent no-knock raid on someones home because they posted on social media an opinion that government did not like and governments justification is ‘we think because we say so therefore give us a search warrant so we can fish for evidence’ (like what happened with the ATF in this case), and sending in what is basically an FBI hit squad like the ATF did here essentially did to this guy.
and now even more little details coming out; They were not there to arrest him, and they did not have an arrest warrant. On the search warrant application, the basis section, block for a search to arrest is not checked. This was purely a fishing expedition, they did not have actual evidence or intent despite having him under surveillance for at least two years. They did not have actual probable cause thus could not check the box on the search warrant application for arrest as a basis nor could they get an arrest warrant because they could not show intent thus no actual probable cause.
Their whole thing comes down to, collectively, that he sold guns without an FFL license, and even that is based on their own contrived self-serving interpretation.
They essentially murdered this guy for the civil equivalent of driving without a license, a claim they made without having actual probable cause or intent.
now even more little details coming out: the search warrant was never authorized to be a no-knock warrant. The ATF simply did it, busted through the door, no knocks at all, in hours of darkness (it was still dark where and when this happened) no warning or notice of who they were or why they were there. They were for all practical purposes criminal home invaders.
Man murdered in his home by ATF for private firearms sales.
I hope when they find any evidence to prosecute they do. The only way to end this tyranny is to begin charging the men that execute it….
In 2023, nationwide, Lithium-ion batteries were responsible for fires that killed 837 people and seriously injured 3,132 people.
Did the federal government do a violent (and illegal because the search warrant was not authorized for no-knock) no-knock search warrant at the homes of the CEO’s of the companies that sold those batteries?’
anyway….
The ATF claims this guy sold 6 guns, in personal sales, to ‘prohibited persons’. 3 of those guns, the people with them were ‘prohibited persons’ because they smoked pot and these three gun were claimed to have been recovered in commission of a crime – that crime was a traffic violation, yep, that’s right, these three were stopped for a traffic violation, the cops detected pot and then the gun.
This man had no legal responsibility to run any background check or do any 4473 for personal sales, there is zero proof that he knew these 6 were prohibited persons.
The ATF claims this guy violated law by, basically, acting as a dealer for profit at gun shows, and claims he purchased guns (only 24 of them it turns out, which he did purchase legally) for resale thus lied on the 4473.
Well actually it turns out none of that is true.
On the 4473 it asks the ‘Actual Transferee/Buyer’ question – he was for a fact the buyer of those firearms and he indicated on the 4473’s that he was the buyer – there is actually no federal law that gives a time period for one to keep a firearm before they can sell it, this is pure ATF interpretation which is not law.
There is no federal law that says a personal sales person can not set up tables at a gun show and sell their guns, they own, for a profit (or not) on a personal basis. This is pure ATF interpretation which is not law. Only those actually engaged in the business, as a business, (e.g. vendors/dealers) at gun shows are required to have an FFL/perform background checks -‘personal sellers’ are not required to do so under federal law or have an FFL. There is no law that requires or defines a person who sets up tables at a gun show to sell their personally owned guns on a personal basis be or is a dealer of firearms.
The (unconstitutional, in part) ‘Bipartisan Safer Communities Act’ … provides that a person who sells firearms to predominantly earn a profit is engaged in the business of dealing in firearms and is therefore required to be federally licensed. And further this act applies engaged in the business as applicable to a firearms dealer who is required to be federally licensed. Individuals who make personal sales of firearms are not under federal law required to be federally licensed.
There is no proof this guy was selling firearms to “predominantly earn a profit”. He made over $250,000.00 a year at his job. Over time at gun shows and elsewhere, over a three year period it turns out he sold ~120 guns. That’s ~40 firearms per year, and not all of those were sold at gun shows. The average cost for all the guns he sold during that period was ~$400.00 per gun, or about ~ $16,000.00 over 3 years (~$5,333.00 per year). The ATF standards nor the ‘Bipartisan Safer Communities Act’ define what constitutes ‘predominantly earn a profit’ – the word ‘predominantly’ and in relation to what, it is purely subjective and ATF interpretation. But considering this guy made an an annual salary of over $250,000.00 a year at his airport job – or over this same three year period $750,000.00 – a grand total of around ~$16,000.00 from selling guns personally is not ‘predominantly’. The application of ‘predominantly’ is pure ATF interpretation which is not law.
The ATF did not have any evidence that he actually violated law, during the few years of surveillance and tracking and following – never at any time did they get evidence of an actual crime during that period. Finally they had to get a search warrant to go fishing to get evidence, and even then according to the application for the search warrant they were not searching for purposes of arrest.
Every bit of this is based on the ATF ‘interpretation’ of events and ATF ‘interpretation’ of law, all of which is self-serving ‘interpretation’ and not actual violations of law for if he had actually violated law they would have had probable cause for an arrest warrant or could have checked the ‘arrest’ box under ‘basis’ section on the search warrant application but could not do either because they could not show it probable that a crime had actually been committed. They had what in their ‘interpretation’ (by their own documents) was a lot of smoke but no fire, its even evident in their released documents they were struggling to put together something that could show probable cause because they throw in a lot of ‘straw grasping’ trying to tie things together to make him look like he was wrong-doing and had intent. That’s why they needed the search warrant, after these years they still had zero evidence of a crime so they needed the search warrant to search for evidence.
There was no arrest – there was no probable cause for an arrest warrant – he was never actually charged with a crime – there was no court and trial – there was no verdict of guilty – there is nothing but what the ATF says and their ‘interpretation’.
This man did not commit a crime, he is innocent.
The ATF essentially murdered an innocent man by intentionally creating an intentionally hostile and dangerous situation that looked exactly like a criminal home invasion happening in hours of darkness (it was still dark there) by executing the search warrant as a no-knock warrant when it was not authorized for that.
clarification for: “Individuals who make personal sales of firearms are not under federal law required to be federally licensed. ”
should have been …
Individuals who make personal sales of their own personally owned firearms are not under federal law required to be federally licensed.
correction for: “The ATF standards nor the ‘Bipartisan Safer Communities Act’ define what constitutes ‘predominantly earn a profit’ – the word ‘predominantly’ and in relation to what, it is purely subjective and ATF interpretation”
should have been…
The ATF standards and the ‘Bipartisan Safer Communities Act’ don’t define what constitutes ‘predominantly earn a profit’ – the word ‘predominantly’ and in relation to what, it is purely subjective and ATF interpretation…
Disarm the police. All of them. Disarm all law enforcement. Issue them night sticks and the training to use them. There is no rational or moral reason for cops to have firearms.
They need to first demonstrate that they can handle situations without using guns.
The belief that the government should have a monopoly on violence is, totally irrational and illogical. That is statist position.
And unfortunately a popular one.
OK, now some more little details coming out.
Notice in the documents the ATF released they say 6 of the guns he sold ended up at crime scenes. And that he sold guns to ‘prohibited persons’.
See where they provide details for 3 of them, but not for the other 3. Notice in the 3 they supply details for its ‘SUSPECTED marijuana’.
OK, it turns out those 3… the ATF had targeted them after he sold guns to them, had the cops pull them over for traffic violations then claim they ‘suspected marijuana’ at which point the cops searched and found the gun but oddly no marijuana. Instant ‘gun used in the commission of a crime’, or in other words, their ‘crime scene’. And the ATF saying these three were ‘prohibited persons’ is the ATF is tagging them as ‘prohibited persons’ because of the the cops saying ‘SUSPECTED marijuana’.
The ATF and anti-gunners have been playing this trick for a while to falsely inflate their ‘gun used in the commission of a crime’ and the ‘number of guns seized from crime scenes’ – its word games, there false inflation was no actual ‘gun used in the commission of a crime’ or ‘guns seized from crime scenes’ because there was no actual ‘crime’.
still looking into the other 3 for which ATF did not release details
One of the prohibited persons was a 15 year-old known gang member, and the gun that kid had, which Bryan had owned at one time, was stolen. Also, look at Witness-1 noted above. They pulled him or her over twice after two different purchases from Bryan. They never said why they pulled him or her over. Look at W-1’s third purchase from Bryan. W-1 threw the firearm away because [redacted] did not want the firearm. This firearm was never recovered. That sounds totally normal, right? Was W-1 working on behalf of the ATF?
G. G. Liddy was right…
so the ATF wanted to play Rambo and somebody died.
in this case it was the citizen but on occasion a govt agent pays that price. the ATF lost 4 in Waco.
but they (and their agents) didn’t learn from that
so they continue to take the risk when they could have easily got this guy at work and escorted him home to do the search (just like in Waco)
but why was this well paid guy putting himself on the ATF crosshairs?
that said I would note that (in most states anyway) selling to a prohibit person is not a crime, KNOWINGLY selling to a prohibited person is a crime
The ATF are bad guys but they didn’t kill anyone at Ruby Ridge. Weaver’s son and dog were killed by US marshals and his wife was killed by the FBI. THE ATF set up the sting that started the whole atrocity but didn’t participate in the killing.