Monday gunz
Think pulling pics from our files is easy? I type in “guns” and of the first 80 pics displayed, over 60 have a pretty girl in them.
For starters, retired Navy officer LCDR Craig Wortham was found to have a personally owned weapon (with a concealed carry permit) at an installation entry gate (probably Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, since that is where his original installation ban was cited) – and was banned not just from that post’s facilities, but at all Navy installations in the Hampton Roads area. Not only is the breadth of the ban unusual, it was issued the same day as the recent change allowing active duty personnel to carry their own personal weapons on post.
The retired officer is now barred from entering Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story and is prohibited from accessing housing, exchanges, medical facilities and other on-base services. The restriction extends across Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, effectively blocking access to multiple installations in the Hampton Roads area.
No details on how the weapon was found, but it is interesting that his punishment seems to be harsher than normal.
“Thanks for sharing. Our team is reviewing. This is unacceptable,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote Wednesday on X in response to a post describing the incident. Military.com
Speaking of harsh punishment – PO Tate Adamiak should be remembered here – he is the fella that Joe Biden’s ATF ramrodded into a 20 year sentence on the rationale that a bunch of flat pieces of metal “could be made” into full auto sears. Therefore his semi-auto guns and the metal pieces were the same as unlicensed full-auto weapons. An expert witness helped disprove that but he still got the 20 year (240 months) sentence. What is interesting is a comparison of his sentence compared to other “gun criminals.”.
Alfredo Gonzalez-Diaz, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen illegally residing in Houston, was charged with drug trafficking on U.S. streets and unlawfully possessing a rocket launcher, rocket-propelled grenades, guns and ammunition, according to U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
“A rocket launcher, two rocket propelled grenades, 8.5 kilos of heroin, and lots, and lots, of cash,” said Hamdani.
He got 175 months.
Timothy Lawrence Carll, 67, possessed four fully automatic machine guns, including an AK-style rifle, a Thompson M1 submachine gun, a Sterling submachine gun, and a PPSh-41 submachine gun. Carll also possessed four metal tubes that he knew were designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, specifically for use as part of Sten submachine guns of various models.
Carll is facing a 10 year (120 month) sentence max.
Daniel Matthew Kittson, 61, was found guilty of illegally transferring a fully functional PPSh submachine gun. He got 27 months.
Howard Neil Martin, 46, was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking offense, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Second Amendment Foundation
Ninety months for Kittson. Starting to see a pattern yet? Real criminals, real offenses, not Bidenesque ATF questionable charges, yet all substantially shorter sentences. We covered Adamiak previously here and here again . Worth rereading them. And contacting your Congresscritters. Gotta wonder why the “most pro-gun administration in history” is letting this one slide
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“No details on how the weapon was found”
Yes, it’s interesting because the usual routine for entering a base around here is stop at the gate, present your ID which they scan with a handheld scanner to verify it’s legit, wave you through.
I suppose they may have been doing some sort of random spot check or something, but I’ve never seen that before.
My guess is that he had it in plain sight because he had no evil intent and didn’t even think about it.
There have been multiple times when I’ve been out in public, thought, “I need to run to the base for xxxx”, but then realized I had to go home and disarm first. It doesn’t take much imagination to think it could slip my mind and happen to me. When you get used to always having it on you, it’s easy to not even think about it.
BTW: I mentioned this in a comment to a post about Hegseth’s new off duty carry policy. As written it doesn’t apply to retirees. Maybe he’ll rectify that now, so something good could come of the LCDR’s travails.
“Ninety months for Kittson. Starting to see a pattern yet? Real criminals, real offenses, not Bidenesque ATF questionable charges, yet all substantially shorter sentences.”
Laws aren’t about controlling criminals, they’re about controlling the citizenry.
The cool thing about them allowing actual criminals to stay on the streets is that they commit more crimes, providing the government the excuse they need to pass even more stringent laws and increase their control over the peasants.
Putting otherwise law abiding citizens in prison and throwing away the key is a cautionary tale to other peasants who might be thinking about something as rash as exercising their rights.
Why do you think the January 6th “rioters” were treated so harshly? It wasn’t justice…it was a warning.
Spot on Sailor. Lots of federal agencies need a too to bottom housecleaning, or outright abolishment.. ATF is at the top of that list, right next to the IRS
I’ve got to check the Smothonian on demand Xfinity’s ‘The Weapons Hunter” series and see if Timothy Lawrence Carll, 67, was one of the guys in one of the series.
Typo on above Smithonian spelling
We spent a ton of time on a base using the fam camp. The one time I did take personal weapons to the armory the folks there asked why I was doing that. No one else did and suggested I just keep them in the RV, after they ooohhhed and awwed at what I brought in. Yep at that time I had a current LEOSA card but I carried everywhere on base.
That was a couple decades and more before Hegseth came out with his policy. That wasn’t the only base we stayed at either.
Glamorous Iranian woman arrested for trafficking weapons for Tehran
She looks pretty, but too high maintenance for me.
“could be made”
That aspect of the law is unknown to me….
I have a bunch of things around the house that could be made into all sorts of things, some of them legal, some of them not so much…
If they weren’t actually sears to make full auto were they the right shape blank? How did they get a conviction if they weren’t close to being sears yet?
“How did they get a conviction if …”
The fix was in.
The BATFEces was out to indict even a ham sammich.
As others have pointed out, the BATFEces wasn’t out to control illegal guns, they were out to control lawful citizens.
Easy; stupid, gullible jurors who know nothing about firearms.
It is called “constructive possession”. Case law dates back 60 years to US v Kokin, 1966. It is actually a pretty high standard to meet to prove.
The prosecution has to show that the subject knew that the items could be assembled into a machine gun and that the subject had the knowledge of how to do so.
Certain items such as machine gun sears that are already classified as prohibited machine gun parts are exempt from that.
When I look under my kitchen sink I see any number of things that “could be made” into some very destructive material.
Or I can go to the local hardware store, or farm implement and fertilizer supply, or grocery store and gather all the crap I’d need to make all sorts of dangerous stuff the AT of F wouldn’t like.
There are online videos of a gent that converted his shovel into a reciever for a semi-auto AK.
Huachuca will allow firearms on-post IF they are registered on post, they are cased out of the reach of the driver, unloaded, ammo stored separately. That applies to active duty and retirees. You do not have to declare your weapons at the gate, but you are required to if stopped for a random search or pulled over for whatever reason. It’s been that way for decades, I have no clue if it’s changed since the new Hegseth firearm rules.
As I understand it, under Hegseth’s new rules, only the base commander can permit concealed carry on base. So, I suspect the allowance of it will be different from base to base. I would think permission would be restricted to E-5 and above.
I’d agree completely. I haven’t heard anything from the local command.
Well like I said…..as a retiree with a CCW in the PRofMD, I am glad I didn’t start charging the gates of Andrews AFB (FUCK YOU JOINT BASE!!!) or Fort Meade while carrying.
I was going to see how this shakes out first AND while I like and admire the SecWar, I don’t want to have to call his office if incarcerated after licking asphault.
I’ve almost gone on base with the .40 I carry in my vehicle. But, I always said, I forgot my CaC card and would pull a u-turn and take it back home. 😅