Last week it was an attempt to be tried under Shar’ia law. This week it looks as though Blackwater is trying to get around the law that prohibits anybody but government agencies from owning or possessing automatic weapons.
It seems that in 2005 the company bought 34 automatic weapons, including 17 AK-47s for the sheriff of
The guns are registered to the sheriff, but the AK-47s are stored at Blackwater facilities. Federal law declares it illegal for a person to receive or possess an automatic weapon that is not registered to that person in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
Other than shooting practice rounds at Blackwater facilities, the sheriff’s people have never used the weapons. Nor are any of his men qualified to do so. And, the sheriff said that the need for automatic weapons is “very minimal”. But Blackwater has used the weapons in their training courses.
Is Blackwater violating the law? Does the law mean anything to this company?
1 comment:
To those like Prince the law is just an inconvenience requiring the services of lawyers to circumvent. Or, to coin and old adage: there's laws for the rich and a whole separate set for the rest of us.
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