gee, I wonder why?
It's not like the government has maintained unchallenged credibility in this case, starting with the lead FBI agent not being able to recall key details when called to the stand to testify, an officer of the court filing an affidavit to counter prosecutorial misrepresentation of facts, and the release of four of the nine accused on bail...Plus, why are we suddenly finding out about all this now? Here it is June, the busts happened in late March...when did the federal grand jury first get this information and why has what would appear on the surface to be relatively straightforward evidence taken this long to be deliberated?
As for "illegal" machine guns and unregistered short-barreled rifles, how do they know who to charge?
And so forth. As he says, this has all the markings of "We've already screwed up, so lets start throwing everything we can think of into this. Besides, since this now seems to involve the NFRTR,
If the US loses this case, there is some speculation on whether the BATFE will seek to appeal the decision because an appellate ruling that the NFRTR is insufficient would have disastrous consequences for the BATFE and the NFRTR. It is this author's opinion that the BATFE would likely not appeal so to protect the integrity of the NFRTR in other court proceedings.
"Other court proceedings..."
Like these?
I have a feeling we're going to see a full-blown "integrity" protection effort.
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