Machine gun and suppressor for $570!

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Machine gun and suppressor for $570!

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While the news of Hamzeh's arrest in early 2016 carried overtones of terrorism — federal prosecutors said he was planning to kill at least 30 people to "defend Islam" — the resulting charges were two counts of possessing a machine gun and one count of possessing a silencer, all of which he bought for $570 from undercover FBI agents. Each count carries up to 10 years in prison.

Hamzeh's attorneys, federal public defenders Craig Albee and Joseph Bugni, note that the criminal complaint against their client fails to mention that despite the hours of recorded Arabic conversations with the informants, he ultimately "rejected their overtures and lectured his informant friends about why such a plan would be wrong."

The new court filings identify the informants only as Steve, who first met with FBI agents in September 2015 and later indicated he "no longer had papers allowing him to work" in the U.S, and Mike, "a seasoned informant," introduced to Hamzeh later. The defense expects to learn about the informants' motivations from required government disclosures closer to trial.
Let's hope that these tactics ended in Jan 2017
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bignflnut wrote:Let's hope that these tactics ended in Jan 2017
But that the prices remain so low !!!
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Apparently, he hadn't hear "If it seems to good to be true, ..."
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