Lou Dobbs reports on the story of a National Guard Drill Instructor who was convicted of illegally transferring a machine gun, a felony, when his perfectly legal AR-15 misfired. He had loaned the rifle to a student and the gun misfired while the student was shooting it at the gun range.
Earlier this year, the government tried and convicted David Olofson on the charge of transferring a machine gun. The Army veteran, Army reservist, husband and father of three contended that his gun was not a machine gun but simply a more than 20-year-old rifle that misfired. But instead of ordering him to repair the rifle, the government took Olofson to court.
- video added July 08, 2008
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Once again the government overstepping its limits....
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This is what happens when laws are interpreted to the most extreme literal sense. Technically a "Machine Gun" is any gun that fires more than one round with one function of the trigger. (Pull the trigger once and multiple bullets fire.) So while in a loose LOOSE sense, the gun accidentally became a "Machine Gun" but from then on continued to work fine. The guy got strung up by some jerk who was probably trying to fill a quota. We need to repeal all NFA laws, they convict innocent people of crimes they didn't really commit.
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