106 counts of manufacturing a machine gun [View All]

[Katya Mullethov]

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GOLDEN VALLEY - A local gunsmith is among six men facing a 106-count federal indictment alleging a conspiracy to illegally manufacture and distribute machine guns.



According to the July 2010 indictment, George Dibril Clark III of Golden Valley and Gold Canyon and five other men - three from Arizona and two from Maryland - "harvested" serial numbers from pre-1986 machine guns, thereby destroying them. They would then allegedly weld the serial number, or the entire receiver side plate, onto a newly manufactured gun, file the required forms with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, then sell the weapons.

Sander also states that Clark "admitted that he had done this for years and that he believed the serial number to be the actual gun."Nonetheless, according to Sander, Clark and the co-defendants had transferred the guns among themselves, "making slight and subtle changes to ATF Form 3 or Form 4 that would slowly change the description of the machine gun so as not to raise any red flags with ATF."

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If I were the defense I be hitting the NFRTR with discovery like a screen door in a hurricane .If they approved a MAC11 Serial number for a 1919 RSP, who's to say they didn't approve hundreds of other transfers with messed up serial numbers . If for no other reason than to draw unwanted attention to the reams of errors at the worst possible time .