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Scott A. Edmisten, 43, 1915 Clearwood Drive, Johnson City, was arrested because his license was suspended for failure to appear in court on an unrelated matter. After officers took Edmisten into custody, they found the weapons: a loaded .357-caliber Magnum, a loaded .45-caliber semi automatic, a .223-caliber fully automatic AR rifle, a .308-caliber fully automatic AR rifle, more than 900 rounds of ammunition and survival equipment.
Edmisten was charged with speeding, felony evading arrest and possession of prohibited weapons. Neither of the automatic weapons were registered, and there were no serial numbers on them, the sheriff reported.
“The guns, he had made them fully automatic himself,” Graybeal said, adding that the AR 15’s receivers had been replaced to convert the weapon. “If you know what you’re doing, you can get the parts and do that.”
At the Washington County Detention Center, Graybeal said Edmisten made threats toward the arresting officer and other staff and lunged toward investigators who were trying to question him. Because of Edmisten’s aggressive behavior, Graybeal said officers asked for a bond hearing before Edmisten could post bail.
also 4 more weapons were found later at his house, plus possible motive.
Scott A. Edmisten, 43, 1915 Clearwood Drive, Johnson City, was arrested because his license was suspended for failure to appear in court on an unrelated matter. After officers took Edmisten into custody, they found the weapons: a loaded .357-caliber Magnum, a loaded .45-caliber semi automatic, a .223-caliber fully automatic AR rifle, a .308-caliber fully automatic AR rifle, more than 900 rounds of ammunition and survival equipment.
Edmisten was charged with speeding, felony evading arrest and possession of prohibited weapons. Neither of the automatic weapons were registered, and there were no serial numbers on them, the sheriff reported.
“The guns, he had made them fully automatic himself,” Graybeal said, adding that the AR 15’s receivers had been replaced to convert the weapon. “If you know what you’re doing, you can get the parts and do that.”
At the Washington County Detention Center, Graybeal said Edmisten made threats toward the arresting officer and other staff and lunged toward investigators who were trying to question him. Because of Edmisten’s aggressive behavior, Graybeal said officers asked for a bond hearing before Edmisten could post bail.
also 4 more weapons were found later at his house, plus possible motive.
All this incident proves is that, in this age of easy to acquire precision machine tools and accurate drawings, getting or producing an NFA item is extremely easy.
Oh, and criminals don't obey laws. They don't scoff at them they just ignore them and do what they want to do.
AlanM
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. - RAH
Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.
Charge and penalize accordingly... Enforce the laws we have...
-Mike
NRA Life Member
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
Tench Coxe
fyrfytr310 wrote:Charge and penalize accordingly... Enforce the laws we have...
Are they just laws?
Why can this guy not have these weapons? Do you want to be charged for simply possessing something?
Why would it be illegal for a person to alter the weapon he purchased from its stock configuration? People alter/upgrade their vehicles, computers, etc...
Why strengthen the laws we decry by enforcing them? Because people are ignorant and loud, we should capitulate to the rantings of the most ignorant and intolerant in our society?
Do you see where this leads? If you can't sell even the base unit, and allow people to upgrade it (because, let's be honest, you can't stop them once they have the base technology), you must outlaw the base unit.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
A nephew has a 3-D printer he uses to make drones. He showed me a readily available program that can be downloaded which will let his printer make a M16A1 lower. However most CRIMINALS wanting full auto can probably be a full auto AK easier and cheaper. In the 90's I did come work in Central America and at the time had a C&R license. I told my interpreter I was interested in old guns and could ship them home. At first he denied knowing of any guns in the area. Eventually he offered me a pair of folding stocked AKs at $45 US each. I explained I was looking for cowboy guns, not army guns.