a little more detail and some pics here:

https://ussanews.com/2022/07/1...es-absurdity-of-nfa/

Mejia knew what he did was illegal, but the FBI has become a joke for going after selective crime, ignoring major crime that involves Dems and leftists, and out right fabricating "evidence" against conservatives / Trump supporters.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
it will be interesting to see if this gets tossed and leads to a malicious prosecution case

the FBI is still inventing crimes, entrapping people and generally doing their level best to be the kind of Gestapo that Hitler could only have dreamed of

I don't think it's possible to have this dismissed after pleading guilty.

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Originally posted by dsiets:

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FBI informant

What does it take to be an FBI informant? Are they the ones who were always picked last during recess?
Or is there a political bend to it?

You might find their operation at Ruby Ridge, Idaho interesting. They shot Mrs. Weaver as she was breast feeding her baby, trying to force Mr. Weaver to work undercover for them in their investigation of a small neighboring community.

I spent about 2 weeks running the Colorado River right after that happened, and 9 of the guys with us were Idaho State Policemen who were on the scene when the woman was killed. It was an intentional act by the feeb sniper team. I didn't have respect for them at the time anyway (based on our personal experiences with them but that murder ended any/all respect for them.

Just so I'm clear, did he simply put an upper with a barrel less than 18 inches on his lower?

was there something about the stock? Is there some overall length requirement, or just the barrel?

sorry to ask a dumb question, but I'm a pistol guy. Rifles not so much.

How did they single him out to plant the snitch?
Just luck or did they have him targeted to begin with?

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Originally posted by radioman:
Just so I'm clear, did he simply put an upper with a barrel less than 18 inches on his lower?

was there something about the stock? Is there some overall length requirement, or just the barrel?

sorry to ask a dumb question, but I'm a pistol guy. Rifles not so much.

The Firearm in question is a CZ Scorpion EVO 3 S1, a Pistol w/ a 7.72" barrel, to which he added a Stock and thus, he constructed an unregistered SBR! According to pic's I've seen he also added a VFG, which is also a violation that'll get you charged

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Originally posted by radioman:
Just so I'm clear, did he simply put an upper with a barrel less than 18 inches on his lower?

was there something about the stock? Is there some overall length requirement, or just the barrel?

sorry to ask a dumb question, but I'm a pistol guy. Rifles not so much.

He purchased a gun legally configured as a handgun, regulated under Title 1 laws, then added a stock which changes the legal configuration to a rifle with a short barrel, which places it under the Title 2 NFA regulations. The barrel length in the original configuration being under the (arbitrary) length of 16", so he effectively "manufactured" a new firearm, a Short Barreled Rifle (SBR), without going through the legal process defined by NFA.

In addition to barrel length requirements there are overall length requirements as well.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
According to pic's I've seen he also added a VFG, which is also a violation that'll get you charged

Reading the TTAG article on my small screen phone I missed that detail in the photo the first time I saw it. Good catch. Yeah, that accessory alters the configuration and requires NFA compliance as well.

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How did they single him out to plant the snitch?
Just luck or did they have him targeted to begin with?

Seems like low hanging fruit to me to plan this out. I'm betting the snitch got pinched and offered the info up to the three letter guys. I'm betting the arrested fellow ran his mouth a bunch and celebrated his illegal stuff.

I wonder if he'd have gotten as much attention if his last name was Wray, or Shaw, instead of Mejia?

Yet they refuse to prosecute people who lie on the 4473 and get caught. Holder and Obama stopped because most of the people getting caught were, guess what? Black and Hispanic.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by RichardC:

The informant, or CHS, wasn’t paid for setting up Mejia. Instead, they were cooperating with the FBI to avoid prosecution by ICE.

So they made an illegal alien into an undercover snitch.

ICE prosecution doesn't automatically mean an illegal alien. ICE is involved in much more than just immigration enforcement.

ICE HSI (Homeland Security Investigations), the primary criminal investigation arm of ICE, handles a wide variety of federal crimes including terrorism, fraud, gangs, drugs, human trafficking, child porn, hacking, smuggling, money laundering, weapons, counterfeiting, etc. They are the second largest federal criminal investigation agency, just behind the FBI.

From the Op's link:

“The CHS is a reliable source who has, for less than one year, provided accurate and reliable information that has been corroborated by the FBI,” Shaw wrote in the complaint. “Prior to becoming a CHS, the CHS was arrested in or about June 2020 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a charge of Nonimmigrant Student Out of Status : Failure to Attend and was briefly detained.”

Sounds like illegal alien territory to me.

The OP did not include the parts that told us that the convicted guy had an illegal short barreled rifle.

Now, we can all agree that SBR laws are silly, and shouldn't be on the books. But they are.

We can also agree that even though these laws are on the books that the FBI is wasting time and money making a case against a guy like this, but this is still illegal.

^^^ The fact that they call tis a "Terrorism" sting makes it even dumber.

But in this day in age, a woman who disagrees with her local school board can be a Terrorist.