Federal prosecutors now using ATF’s lies and fake evidence to harm former sailor’s legal appeal By: Lee Williams

Said Adamiak: “I am still a patriot and love this country.”

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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.

• Bodell inserted a real STEN action and a real STEN barrel into Adamiak’s toy STEN submachinegun and got it to fire one round, even though the toy’s receiver wouldn’t accept a real STEN magazine. Bodell actually classified the toy, which are very popular, as a machinegun. The toy STENs are still completely legal and widely sold.

• Bodell test fired five of Adamiak’s very expensive and extremely collectible legal semi-autos, which fire from an open bolt. All the ATF technician could achieve was semi-auto fire, but that didn’t stop him. He classified all five highly sought after pistols as machineguns. These semi-autos are still legal, very collectible and widely sold. Today, one can fetch from $3,000 to $5,000, and they can still be purchased just like any other firearm, with only an ATF Form 4473 and background check.

• Bodell ruled that several receivers that had been cut in half were actually machineguns. The same parts are still legally sold online and do not even require any paperwork.

• Bodell actually rebuilt three of Adamiak’s inert RPGs, which had holes drilled into their receivers and were stripped of internal parts. Bodell added parts from ATF’s real RPGs until they would fire a single subcaliber 7.62x39mm round. As a result, he classified the RPGs as destructive devices, even though to this day they’re completely legal and widely sold.

Bodell’s lies were legion.

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.

Adamiak’s plight

Adamiak committed no crime, so why is he still serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in New Jersey?

Because the ATF screwed up, and they would rather charge an innocent man, kill his elite military career and force him to serve two decades behind bars than admit the truth—that their special agents don’t have a clue about what they’re doing.

Bodell’s alleged “research” would be hilarious—especially his turning a toy STEN into a machinegun—if Adamiak wasn’t serving 20 years behind bars as a result.

Adamiak’s appeal is on hold for legal reasons. Therefore, the quickest way he could walk out of prison as a free man would be a presidential pardon.

If President Donald Trump needs to know what kind of a man he’d be pardoning, Adamiak would be the perfect choice. All he wants is to return to the Navy and resume his career. He’s honest, selfless and dedicated to serving this great country. That should be all President Trump needs to know.

A couple of crazed ATF agents, overzealous prosecutors and an anti-gun judge took everything from this young man—his freedom, his reputation and all of his hard-earned possessions. However, Adamiak is willing to forget and forgive and go back to work keeping us safe. All he needs is the opportunity.

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