If you haven’t been following our articles on what the federal government did in prosecuting and convicting Patrick Adamiak, please see our posts here, here, here and here. In short, he was convicted of possession of inoperable and replica machine guns, parts kits and non-firing grenade launchers after ATF lied and all but fabricated evidence against him.
As Lee Williams wrote . . .
Adamiak, who is now 31, was a 28-year-old E-6 in the U.S. Navy prior to his arrest. He enjoyed firearms and ran a website that sold gun parts – not guns. He was always extremely careful about what he sold. After all, he had to protect his naval career, which was doing extremely well. Adamiak had already been accepted into Naval Special Warfare, so exciting things were soon headed his way.
But after their informant lied and dozens of heavily armed ATF agents kicked open Adamiak’s door during a search warrant, nothing illegal was found. As a result, the ATF was forced to call in their ringer, Firearms Enforcement Officer Jeffrey Bodell.
Once the ATF turned the case over to Bodell, Adamiak’s innocence no longer mattered. Bodell would break the rules. He actually turned toys into firearms, legal RPGs into destructive devices and 100% legal semi-autos into machineguns. …
All of what Bodell insisted were illegal items are still sold legally online: Inert RPGs, toy STENs, submachinegun receivers and especially open-bolt semi-autos. The RPGs, toy STENs and submachinegun receivers don’t require any paperwork to purchase.
None of that seemed to matter to the court. Adamiak was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Last week, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bondi v. VanDerStok, ruling that parts kits that can readily be converted into a working firearm is covered under the Gun Control Act of 1968 and must be sold under the same process as a working firearm.
Adamiak has appealed, but the Justice Department is now taking the position that the VanDerStok ruling supports its statnace and is asking the Court of Appeals to affirm the conviction.
Trump’s DOJ has wasted no time trying to use the Polymer80 ruling to keep Tate Adamiak – who had cut-up WWII parts kits in prison. They argue that a destroyed parts kit is “obviously” a weapon and thus this young man should remain in jail for decades for daring to own them. pic.twitter.com/GpjjuT3x47
— Fudd Busters (@FuddBusters) March 28, 2025
Here’s interim US Attorney Erik Siebert’s letter to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals . . .
Pam Bondi is a disaster.
still waiting on that memo on rolling back 2nd amendment infringements… lol! this admin does not give a RIP about gun rights. just like Ds take minority rights for granted the Rs take gun owner rights for granted.
“Interim US Attorney Uses VanDerStok Ruling to Argue for Keeping Patrick Adamiak in Prison”
Bullshit, the Polymer 80 kits were of new manufacture, the Sten kits were existing weapons, destroyed by approved BATF measures via number of cuts to the receiver.
I wish I would have grabbed one of those kits when they were available decades past, just for the historical interest…
“Trump’s DOJ”
LOL
10 weeks into his term, and you expect 50+ years of leftist infiltration to be overturned overnight.
Ok, gotcha.
“…who had cut-up WWII parts kits in prison.”
he cut them up there, or just smuggled them in?