Vietnam War veteran sentenced to seven years for purchase of 'rare' gun decades ago - NY Daily...

The vet who owned the serial # defaced fully auto M14, if he was a collector, should have known what the NFA rules were with regard to his "machine gun" and either avoided it or buried it and forgot about it. The feds (i.e., BATFE) takes a pretty dim view of such goings on. I presume that the prosecutor and the judge may have had an anti-gun axe to grind, but the rifle owner did the deed. I agree that he should have gotten off with a slap on the wrist (probation) and it looks like a good opportunity for our President to offer some relief (on account of the guy's age and the fact that he never committed a crime with the rifle) in the form of a pardon. BTW, I had a selective fire M14 with bipods in Vietnam. When fired fully automatic, the rifle's muzzle climbed tremendously, even in three round bursts. So I used it almost entirely in semi-auto mode and it was damned accurate.

This is how it will be in Washington State for a Ruger 10/22 if I-1639 passes.

The prison industrial complex. Have to fill those empty beds... un freaking believable