FBI Director Kash Patel made the statement after right-wing media figures said they joined the chats and claimed participants were obstructing law enforcement.
Well, they’re probably happier being able to do this instead of what they’re normally tasked with: CSAM investigations and luring socially challenged people into terrorist conspiracies.
luring socially challenged people into terrorist conspiracies.
I want to say it’s always this, but the guy I knew, it was 100% on him. He sought the buyer out, thinking he was selling weapons to a real anti-government militia. My doofus friend thought he had a great way to make money and that’s to file off the serial numbers of rifles because that made them more expensive and totally wasn’t a crime because it’s only a crime when you get caught. So on his first sale, he filed the serial numbers off some stock ARs and sold them to the ATF, ranting the entire time about how easy it would be to do a drive by on those local government buildings and did they want to do this specific one they all happened to work in. He did not get convicted for the ramblings (because like all us theater kids he is a dipshit) but he got convicted for the serial numbers.
Funny thing, when we called up the college theater friends group, the conversation went “guess who’s going to prison?” “well it’s obviously not you, so that means it’s Dave!” “yup! Guess what for?” “statutory!” “no! Somehow failing to run guns!” “oh thank God” with very single person, including when I got the phone call from Kristen and then we all were calling each other. Then we had fun telling each other what we thought each other would go to prison for (most people put me as environmental ecoterrorism because the government misunderstood an art installation I would somehow fail spectacularly to install. The key word in all descriptions of my crimes was spectacular)
Well, they’re probably happier being able to do this instead of what they’re normally tasked with: CSAM investigations and luring socially challenged people into terrorist conspiracies.
I want to say it’s always this, but the guy I knew, it was 100% on him. He sought the buyer out, thinking he was selling weapons to a real anti-government militia. My doofus friend thought he had a great way to make money and that’s to file off the serial numbers of rifles because that made them more expensive and totally wasn’t a crime because it’s only a crime when you get caught. So on his first sale, he filed the serial numbers off some stock ARs and sold them to the ATF, ranting the entire time about how easy it would be to do a drive by on those local government buildings and did they want to do this specific one they all happened to work in. He did not get convicted for the ramblings (because like all us theater kids he is a dipshit) but he got convicted for the serial numbers.
Funny thing, when we called up the college theater friends group, the conversation went “guess who’s going to prison?” “well it’s obviously not you, so that means it’s Dave!” “yup! Guess what for?” “statutory!” “no! Somehow failing to run guns!” “oh thank God” with very single person, including when I got the phone call from Kristen and then we all were calling each other. Then we had fun telling each other what we thought each other would go to prison for (most people put me as environmental ecoterrorism because the government misunderstood an art installation I would somehow fail spectacularly to install. The key word in all descriptions of my crimes was spectacular)