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The Story of Patrick Tate Adamiak · Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights

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  Welcome to the Live2Shoot podcast.
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  This is Jeff Dowdell.
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  I've been a licensed firearm dealer for the last 17 years.
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  In this podcast, we talk about all things related to the Second Amendment as well as anything else going on in the world.
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  Sports story or anything else that I might find interesting.
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  So welcome.
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  Welcome.
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  Welcome.
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  So been an interesting week But this time I wanted to just dedicate a little short time on this podcast to tell the story of Patrick Tate Adam Adam Iac he goes by Tate Tate is a US Navy sail sailor that was Targeted by the ATF and Arrested and convicted for 20 years for dealing in controlled firearms such as grenade launchers, machine guns, and etc.
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  So purpose of this is to start getting the, is getting the word out about Tate's situation.
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  And let me just tell you exactly, you know, what happened.
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  So Tate was a Navy, Navy sailor.
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  He had accumulated a variety of World War ii relics and souvenirs, and he sold them on his website, uniforms, things like that.
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  But he also sold replica.
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  Machine guns, parts cut up disassembled parts for firearms on his website.
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  And while he's doing this, the ATF took a criminal informant who had, you know charges pending against him and challenged him to go out and just see if you can buy a machine gun illegally.
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  And so he went out, was not successful in purchasing a machine gun, but he did get to Tate's website and he bought some of Tate's Replica parts and disassembled and and parts and took them back and showed the ATF how he could potentially assemble these to become a working machine gun.
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  Now the ATF was never able to make these firearms actually function as a machine gun because they were replicas.
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  They weren't actual parts.
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  But, Tate was arrested.
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  And I will just give you you know, some statement of the facts that are present.
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  One, Tate had never been in trouble with the law.
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  He had not a single charged item that seized from Tate's collection was functional or suitable.
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  Senior ATF special agent and president of the International Firearms Specialist Academy, Daniel G.
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  O'Kelley, has examined each item Tate is in prison for and has concluded that not a single article qualifies as a firearm under any federal law.
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  Tate received no warning from the ATF that their new unpublished, unpromulgated internal policy would turn his hobby into a life ruining crime and we'll get back to that here in just a minute.
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  The exact items Tate is convicted for possessing are still openly being marketed and sold daily.
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  The ATF is aware and no action has been taken.
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  Tate was discharged from the U.
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  S.
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  Navy due to these charges with full honors after a thorough hearing despite an overzealous prosecutor's repeated attempts to taint his discharge board to give him a dishonorable discharge.
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  The prosecutor used Tate's military experience and training against him to sustain a conviction.
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  Tate was not being investigated until a paid ATF criminal informant attempted to entrap Tate to get himself out of pending new charges.
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  The informant reported seeing a machine gun in Tate's garage, which turned out to be an air powered replica.
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  The ATF employee that classified all the weapons Tate is imprisoned for testified that, in the example of an M16, a sharpie marker indicated where an auto sear pin hole would be located.
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  could convert the AR 15 into a machine gun is enough to classify that element as a machine gun.
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  To put this in layman's terms, the ATF is of the opinion that drawing on an unregulated semi automatic firearm with a marker turns it into a machine gun.
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  That's very similar to how they determined that a shoelace at one point could be a machine gun.
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  You know, this is you know, more evidence.
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  of a government that does not value their citizens, has the the Biden administration that zealously, actively pursued to try and turn law abiding citizens into criminals for political means.
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  And this is, again, an example that of how this ATF is is out of control and needs to be ranked in.
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  Timeline of what happened with Tate was that he, on April 22nd, April 7th, 2022, he was arrested in his home and raided by dozens of armed federal agents several days before Biden announces a new parts regulation to the public for the first time.
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  So, he's arrested for an internal rule that has not even been published yet.
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  On April 11th, Four days later, Biden holds a press conference about ATF's new priority to regulate gun parts.
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  April August 24, 2022, ATF's final new rule goes into effect.
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  October 21, 2022, Tate is convicted for possession of unregistered firearms, non functional military replicas of various gun parts that were not covered by any federal statute prior to the new rule.
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  On June 13, Tate is sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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  November 9th, the federal, of 2023.
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  This is, you know, a few months after he's sentenced.
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  Federal Court of Appeals strikes down and vacates this ATF illegal rule.
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  And then, as of now, state, Tate is still in prison.
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  So, what does this tell ya?
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  We still need to do something about the ATF.
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  The purpose of this is to get Tate's story out.
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  It is starting to hit other media sources, articles, other podcasts because the Second Amendment Foundation has gotten a hold of this and they're trying to get Tate released.
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  And so I'm just doing my part to tell Tell, tell Tate's story, because if something like this were to happen to me, I hope everybody in the community would band together and start spreading the word.
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  Not that my few listeners are going to make an impact, but one of you might.
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  One of you might know somebody else that can, you can communicate this to, or you can share it on your social media.
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  And and continue to you know, you tell two friends and I'll tell two friends type thing We've got to get these stories out And so that we can reign this, atf in and hopefully, with the new administration Actually make them perform their constitutional duty of protecting the Constitution and not illegally going after and violating the due process rights of American citizens, which this is definitely a case of that.
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  So in the notes of this, I am going to put a link to Tate's Gifts and Go, if you'd like to donate.
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  to his legal defense because he's definitely going to need all that.
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  And please share this podcast with somebody or share the story.
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  Tell others of this is just another instance of our federal government being out of control.
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  These federal agencies, these law enforcement agencies, the ATF, the FBI, the CIA, they are spying and, and, um, over abusing our American citizens wrongfully.
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  And, you, it can, it started with our president, and it has worked on down, and the, and the reason, you know, Trump said that he was running for president was because if they can do this to him, they'll do it to us, and they have been doing it to us.
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  The Biden administration, thank goodness they're gone.
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  They're the most corrupt administration ever.
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  I am pretty confident that will stay in the history of time.
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  And hopefully we can spend some time within the next four years cleaning things up and getting America back on the right track.
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  So I appreciate you listening.
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  Please share Tate's story and get this out.
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  So that maybe he can get released out of prison.
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  He's got, since the 20 years, he's served two already for wrongfully being convicted of selling machine gun parts for machine guns that, for parts that cannot be made into machine guns.
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  Huh, figure that one out.
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  That is our ATF.
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  Well, take care.
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  Have a great weekend.
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  And, again, spread the word.