ATF Lied Repeatedly to Convict Patrick Tate Adamiak

I've read a couple of reports on this case--all of them report the same alleged facts...so all are beyond belief. ATF seems to have spent some time trying to entrap him by repeatedly hiring people to ask him to buy them machine guns. Adamiak always refused. Finally, they got a warrant by telling a judge that a (perfectly legal) barrel shroud for a PPSh-41 was a machine gun. Yeah, that's not a typo: they said that a barrel shroud...a barrel shroud that had itself been cut in two...and that Adamiak had purchased legally...was itself a machine gun. They then turned his residence upside down. They found a replica M-240--a replica--two replica grenade launchers, and two RPG launchers that had been rendered inoperable by, e.g., drilling holes into their chambers... On the basis of these items and some other innocuous, legal, firearms, Adamiak was convicted--and sent to prison for 21 years.

   And those aren't even all the (alleged) facts in this (apparently) outrageous case.

   Some evidence that Adamiak is telling the truth: he was a Petty Officer First Class in the Navy. Normally, if you're sent to prison, you're immediately and dishonorably discharged. The Navy, however, did not do this in Adamiak's case. It let him burn through his accumulated leave. When that ran out, they gave him an honorable discharge. So the Navy, at least, doesn't believe the ATF story.