This is frightening -Small town Iowa police chief charged with lying to ATF to get 90 machine guns

[malaise]

for department with 3 officers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/15/iowa-police-chief-bradley-wendt-atf-90-machine-guns/10906567002/

That, at least, is the view of federal prosecutors, who on Wednesday announced the indictment of Adair Chief of Police Bradley Wendt on charges of making false statements to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to obtain numerous machine guns over a four-year period on behalf of the Adair Police Department, which during Wendt's tenure has never had more than three officers.

According to court filings and a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Wendt used his position as police chief to obtain 10 machine guns for the official use of the police department, but later resold at least six of those weapons for "significant profit."

In addition, Wendt obtained 13 guns for his Dennison- and Anita-based gun store, BW Outfitters, under the pretense they were to be used as demonstration models for potential future purchases by the department. Another 10 weapons were obtained in the same manner for Williams Contracting, a business Williams owned that is federally licensed as a firearms dealer.

[secondwind]

1. Throw the book at them!!!!!!!! grr

[Peacetrain]

2. Jail them!!

[Ray Bruns]

3. We need to know what happened to the guns. Were they all confiscated?

Was the ATF able to trace them all?

[malaise]

4. More important

Where else is this happening?

[SheltieLover]

9. Yes!

Terrifying!

[LiberalFighter]

5. Who else in Adair knew about it and helped?

[Baitball Blogger]

6. It started in 2018, so there wouldn't have been red flags under the Trump

administration. I wonder what the big plan was? Who was he selling these guns to?

[Lochloosa]

7. Population of 790 as of 2010. I would think 1 handgun and 1 rifle would suffice.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Maybe Just A Pointy Stick

If they have a gun, they should do a Barney Fife & keep one bullet in their pocket.

[magicarpet]

8. Gunz for the Oath Keepers,...

.... to keep their weapons arsenals all stocked up ? So that their militia groups will be at the ready when the day comes to ransack, trash, and crush American Democracy and instate Fascism in its place.

[SheltieLover]

10. This was my 1st thought!

I hope this jerk rots in prison!

[druidity33]

11. Were the guns he already sold...

used in any crimes? Where are those guns?

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. Small town police ae often the bottom of the barrel .

I live in Missouri and I give small town police a wide berth. Good Old Boys Clubs are common here. Not all of them are crooked but I am careful. For one thing the salaries are low and the jobs are mostly boring. Making some extra money on the side loks pretty good

[NJCher]

13. True

My experience, too.

It’s not Mayberry RFD, and there are few Andy types around.

[Haggard Celine]

14. It's that way around here.

The big towns have more professional-type cops who have real crimes to deal with and don't worry so much about expired tags and that sort of things. The smaller towns have speed traps and that sort of thing. Anybody who goes out during this season, for instance, better take an uber.

[geardaddy]

15. Don't be surprised if one of them ends up being used

to rob a Kum and Go.

[Tetrachloride]

16. Adair , IA wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair,_Iowa

[intheflow]

17. Grifters gonna grift. n/t

[llashram]

18. either selling or

arming whatever trump's militia is in the area?

[Seinan Sensei]

19. Glock him up

[DallasNE]

20. That Hits Home

[kind graduated from Anita, IA high school, which is 7 miles west of Adair Dennison is another 50 miles WNW of Anita. Both Adair and Anita are towns of less than 1,000 people and Dennison is about twice their size. When they talk about 3 police officers they would mean 1 officer for 3 different shifts.

[malaise]

30. Thanks for this

[bringthePaine]

21. max sentences, possible reduction for turning on their pals everywhere...

[live love laugh]

22. Betya he isn't the only one.

[2live is 2fly]

23. You guys have got to read the complete (linked) story on usatoday and the attached indictment. This

guy (Adair police chief) mounted a .50 FN M2HB on his personal armored humvee. Not to mention all the other illegal crap.

[malaise]

31. WTF

Give us a link

[Kennah]

24. What if the North Koreans invade?

[bif]

25. WTAF?

Why would they need frikken machine guns?!?! Has this country gone completely mad?

[dembotoz]

26. i do not own a gun but i always kinda wanted a machine gun

don't know why

[Kennah]

28. Might need it

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. K&R