James Sawyer, the police chief and only officer in Ray, N.D., spent his days waiting to catch the occasional driver going over the 25 mph speed limit in his farm town of 700 residents. Sawyer got a strange request. d Larry Vickers, who held firearms-tactics training sessions for law enforcement, needed a favor: Could Sawyer help him import a machine gun into the U.S.? All he had to do was tell the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives saying his one-man department was interested in buying the highly restricted weapon, reports the Wall Street Journal. .Sawyer went on to write letters saying his department was possibly interested in buying 73 different firearms, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles, prosecutors allege. He never saw the guns. The letters allowed Vickers to keep or sell them.
Not uncommon for some FFL's to get cozy with a LEO for Letters.
Not uncommon for some FFL's to get cozy with a LEO for Letters.