Vickers charged...

[squidvt]

The og Larry Vickers was charged with trying to get machine guns illegal..

 

[Tryin']

If he got the letters and then didn't demo the guns, he's a moron. Some other strange stuff in the indictment as well.

Sucks that he's going down while the streets are full of switches, but when you're that high-profile ... play by the rules.

 

[Cavman]

Did I hear right tht he already please guilty?

 

[Titanium_Frost]

Did I hear right tht he already please guilty?

Yep. Unreal.

 

[KokomoDave]

Yes, he pled guilty after getting thru a bout of cancer.

 

[wcd]

How does this even happen ?

 

[Cameramonkey]

How does this even happen ?

Well, you start with a .gov full of anti gun liberal radicals...

 

[wcd]

Well, you start with a .gov full of anti gun liberal radicals...

Agreed but still being high profile you would think he would have been so far above board that he would be above reproach.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Agreed but still being high profile you would think he would have been so far above board that he would be above reproach.

Smart people sometimes do stupid stuff.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Yeah, so reading the indictment he didn't just get some machineguns and then 'forget' to demo them. Him and some chiefs of police operated an illegal importation ring, buying Russian guns against US sanctions, and flipping for fun and profit. Unconfirmed, but maybe to the tune of 7 figures of fun and profit.

I think a lot of people, me included, thought he just got caught up in a perhaps overzealous prosecution for trying to get some toys by creative means. What he's plead guilty to isn't that. Not sorry for him, not sorry for the chiefs of police using their positions to help it along, either. Greed got the better of them, apparently.

 

[ECS686]

Yeah, so reading the indictment he didn't just get some machineguns and then 'forget' to demo them. Him and some chiefs of police operated an illegal importation ring, buying Russian guns against US sanctions, and flipping for fun and profit. Unconfirmed, but maybe to the tune of 7 figures of fun and profit.

I think a lot of people, me included, thought he just got caught up in a perhaps overzealous prosecution for trying to get some toys by creative means. What he's plead guilty to isn't that. Not sorry for him, not sorry for the chiefs of police using their positions to help it along, either. Greed got the better of them, apparently.

I just read his signed affidavit Not a good thing.

Very sad day

 

[Dim Mak]

Damn!

 

[KG1]

Smart people sometimes do stupid stuff.

His life is pretty much over due to doing stupid stuff. Depending on his sentence and his health issues he'll most likely die in prison whereas he once was at a respected pinnacle. He knew better.

 

[Creedmoor]

Smart people sometimes do stupid stuff.

They were not smart at all.

 

[tackdriver]

Yeah, so reading the indictment he didn't just get some machineguns and then 'forget' to demo them. Him and some chiefs of police operated an illegal importation ring, buying Russian guns against US sanctions, and flipping for fun and profit. Unconfirmed, but maybe to the tune of 7 figures of fun and profit.

I think a lot of people, me included, thought he just got caught up in a perhaps overzealous prosecution for trying to get some toys by creative means. What he's plead guilty to isn't that. Not sorry for him, not sorry for the chiefs of police using their positions to help it along, either. Greed got the better of them, apparently.

Well... Don't that just change my attitude.

Amazing what a little sunshine can do. Thanks for drawing the curtain on that.

 

[ECS686]

Here is the DOJ press release

North Carolina and North Dakota Police Chiefs and Federal Firearms Licensees Indicted for Conspiracy to Illegally Acquire Machineguns and Other Firearms

A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging five defendants with a conspiracy to illegally acquire machineguns and other regulated firearms. Charged in the indictment, which was unsealed yesterday are: Sean Reidpath Sullivan, age 38, of Gambrills, Maryland; Larry Allen Vickers, age...

www.justice.gov

 

[ECS686]

Here is the DOJ press release

North Carolina and North Dakota Police Chiefs and Federal Firearms Licensees Indicted for Conspiracy to Illegally Acquire Machineguns and Other Firearms

A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging five defendants with a conspiracy to illegally acquire machineguns and other regulated firearms. Charged in the indictment, which was unsealed yesterday are: Sean Reidpath Sullivan, age 38, of Gambrills, Maryland; Larry Allen Vickers, age...

www.justice.gov

 

[Dingleberry]

Yeah, so reading the indictment he didn't just get some machineguns and then 'forget' to demo them. Him and some chiefs of police operated an illegal importation ring, buying Russian guns against US sanctions, and flipping for fun and profit. Unconfirmed, but maybe to the tune of 7 figures of fun and profit.

I think a lot of people, me included, thought he just got caught up in a perhaps overzealous prosecution for trying to get some toys by creative means. What he's plead guilty to isn't that. Not sorry for him, not sorry for the chiefs of police using their positions to help it along, either. Greed got the better of them, apparently.

Wow, you'd think a ex Delta operator would be smarter than that. Just dumb.

 

[wcd]

His life is pretty much over due to doing stupid stuff. Depending on his sentence and his health issues he'll most likely die in prison whereas he once was at a respected pinnacle. He knew better.

After looking at it it seems (appears to me) $ over rode brain function.

 

[Brad69]

I almost got caught up in scam similar to this!

1993 Ft Carson a Major was asking Soldiers I guess he trusted to pay him $700 and get a return of $1,200.

He stated it would only take a month or two and you needed to sign up for a "marksmanship team".
I was a new SGT E-5 I don't think I even had $700 our rent was more than our BAQ.

He was using the letterhead for the marksmanship team to attempt to import Styer AUG rifles. FBI got him if I recall he fell under UCMJ and got like 20yrs.

BTW I have attended two of Larry's classes.