The underlying issue is that even with all the NRA dues payed and Republicans elected, if you cut off the end of your shotgun barrel under an arbitrary measurement the government will A) send you to prison or b) kill you. There are no shortage of agents who willingly enforce this law and a multitude of other utterly ridiculous laws.
FBI Went To Gatherings of Militia/Survivalist Types And Collected License Plate Numbers Of Which One Was Randy Weaver's.
FBI Sent Out Undercover Informants Out To Associate With, Entrap, & Coerce Persons Known To Associate with These Groups To Try And Get Plants/Moles Undercover Informants Inside To Penetrate These Supposedly Dangerous Groups.
Randy Was Approached By One Of These Informants Wearing A Wire who Offered To Pay Randy Big Money For Shot Guns.
Weaver, Being In Bad Financial Straits And Was Desperate For Money To Support His Home & Family, So He Agreed To Sell Some To The Wired Informant.
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The Wired Informant Told Weaver He Needed The Barrels Cut Down Some, And Showed Weaver Where To Cut The Barrel Length Down To, Indicating by Pointing His Finger Where He wanted them Cut Off.
Weaver Did as Instructed, Sold The Guns, and Then Was Later Arrested On Illegal Weapons Charges, Told Charges Would Be Dropped/adjusted If He Cooperated as An Informant.
It Is Undisputed That Weaver Was Later Aquitted of His Original Charges Of Possession & Sale Of Illegal Firearms By An Idaho Jury Of His Peers Due To Entrapment By Federal Informants On The FBI Payroll.
So This was really Just Like Another Fast & Furious Operation That Blew Up In the Fed's Faces.
As The Family Matriarch, Vicki Weaver Ultimately Made the Decision That Randy
NOT APPEAR In Court To Answer The Weapons Charges from Which The "Failure to Appear" Charges Stemmed Which Was What Sent In The HRT Hit Squad and Caused It's Disasterous Results.
Randy May have Been A Squirrely, Right Wing, Paranoid, Religious Zealot, From The So-called Christian Identity Movement, But He certainly wasn't worthy of a FBI HRT Hit-Squad Invading His Property, Shooting His Labrador Retreiver, Shooting His 14 Year-old Son In the back as He was Running Away, and Shooting To Kill At Kevin Harris, and Then Head-Shooting Vicki Weaver Like A Ripe Melon.
Kevin Harris Fired Back At FBI Gunner Bill Deegan In Self-Defense After Being Fired Upon, and After watching 14 Year-Old Sammy Weaver Get Shot in The Back.
There Is Some Blame To Go Around On Both Sides, But The Vast Majority Can be Layed At The Feet Of The FBI.
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