Arizona ATC'r Didn't Pay Taxes, Goes To Prison...

[FN FAL]

Hahaha...who says atc doesn't know how to have fun?

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/az/azpress/2004/2004-099.pdf

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

i thought the feds were taught to weed out this sort of behavior in potential applicants

 

[slowto250]

There is a lesson to be learned here.
Register yer pipe bombs.

 

[Vector4fun]

i thought the feds were taught to weed out this sort of behavior in potential applicants

I don't think this controller was a "Fed". Not that there aren't a few FAA controllers who probably need to register their weapons....

 

[FN FAL]

There is a lesson to be learned here.
Register yer pipe bombs.

You're on the right track...I thought I was going to be able to lure someone into saying, "It wasn't tax evasion, it was an illegal bomb and machinegun that got him arrested!" ...but you guys are too smart for that.

Hahaha...it is non payment of the taxes that is the issue here!

BATFE Form 1 - Application to Make and Register a Firearm

Type of Application (check one)
a. Tax Paid. Submit with your application a
check or money order for $200 made
payable to the Department of the Treasury.
Upon approval of the application, this
office will acquire, affix, and cancel the
required “National Firearms Act: stamp
for you.

c . Firearm. The term “firearm” means: (1) a shotgun having a barrel or
barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (2) a weapon made from a shotgun
if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a
barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (3) a rifle having a barrel
or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (4) a weapon made from a rifle if
such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a
barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (5) any other weapon, as
defined in 18 U.S.C. 5845(e); (6) a machinegun; (7) a muffler or a silencer
for any firearm whether or not such firearm is included within this definition;
and (8) a destructive device.

That would be for the pipe bomb...Since further production of new "transferable machineguns" has been prohibited since the 1986 Firearms Owner Protection Act...the ATC'r would have had to pay a "transfer tax" in order to possess a "transferable machinegun", which this one wasn't.

If the machinegun was not a "transferable", he would have had to have paid the "Special Occupational Tax" and have been a Licensed Class III dealer or Class II manufacturer, then he could have been legally in possession of a machinegun that was made after that date without paying a tax for making or transfer of possession. It would have called a "Post 1986 Dealer Sample". No tax required, because he would have already paid his SOT tax.

It's all about the the TAXES...and this dude dint pay his. I paid mine, so I don't have any sympathy for him. Fill out the forms, submit the paperwork with a 200.00 money order made out to the Treasury Department, wait for and receive your approved form with affixed and cancelled tax stamp, go have fun/follow the rules. That's how it's done.

"On the Control of Silencers in the United States"

"Can't Ban - Tax It!"

In 1934 a bill was passed levying a tax of $200 (4 times the price of a Thompson submachine gun at the time. For more info see Kickback link "Lex Morgenthau".) on future sales of machine guns. Short-barreled rifles and shotguns, cane guns and silencers were also thrown into the bill, almost as an afterthought. The BATF was set up, and one of its functions today is to collect such a tax. So much of the controversy dealing with Title II weapons is not that they are illegal, but that a tax will be levied on their ownership. Owning one which is not properly registered and taxed is a violation of federal tax code (tax evasion) a felony punishable by large fines and up to ten years in prison.

 

[Cardinal]

A controller on Meth. How nice.