PNJ article

"At trial, the government presented evidence that Williams knowingly sold dozens of parts, designed to modify semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic firearms, to undercover police. Under federal law, the parts are classified as machine guns."

How did I miss out on this?

Interesting. Does not look like such an enterprising fellow from his booking photo. I wonder what Federal law considers machine gun parts?

For sure, full auto sears.

So was he making the parts or somehow otherwise acquiring them?

Facing 90 years in prison...Dang.

Modified receivers would be my first guess.

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Williams didn’t register those items in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record as required by law.

That would be because there is no way to enter a new machine gun into the registry unless you are a Type 07 federal firearms licensee (manufacturer), who also holds a Class 2 Special Occupational Tax certificate (manufacturer), a valid ITAR registration with the USDOS Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, and who has a demonstration letter from a government agency or a contract to produce new machine guns for a government agency.

So, see, adding new machine guns to the registry is a piece of cake. He just "didn't register" his new machine guns....

At least they got the name of the registry correct.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

Modified receivers would be my first guess.

More likely they were drop in auto sears.

I just read where a man was convicted of killing 4 kids and did not get 90 years. It was his second murder conviction. The first time he killed his pregnant wife. Something sounds wrong with the sentences.

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Originally posted by Aquabird:
I just read where a man was convicted of killing 4 kids and did not get 90 years. It was his second murder conviction. The first time he killed his pregnant wife. Something sounds wrong with the sentences.

Ya think? This is definitely the only thing wrong with this story.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
[QUOTE]Williams didn’t register those items in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record as required by law.

That would be because there is no way to enter a new machine gun into the registry unless you are a Type 07 federal firearms licensee (manufacturer), who also holds a Class 2 Special Occupational Tax certificate (manufacturer), a valid ITAR registration with the USDOS Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, and who has a demonstration letter from a government agency or a contract to produce new machine guns for a government agency.

So, see, adding new machine guns to the registry is a piece of cake. He just "didn't register" his new machine guns....

At least they got the name of the registry correct.

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it...