A training class is required to be licensed.

Disclosure of your storage method is required for license.

A thumb print is required for license.

Every sale recorded by the federal government.

If you move, and don’t tell the Attorney General within 60 days, you are a criminal.

If a firearm is stolen and you don’t report it, you are a criminal.

There will be no grandfathered firearms. If you do not obtain a license and report every firearm you currently own, you are a criminal.

There will be a license fee and a fee for the “services” provided at purchase time.

Licenses must be renewed every 5 years.

Now i think most of Firearm owners resubmit their firearms to government……

Yes, but this goes back to the kid’s level of understanding. Since there is no full-auto position in addition to burst, maybe he got semi-auto and auto confused. Perhaps Olofson was trying to reassure him that it was legal and said the police didn’t care about “semi-automatic,” but then Kiernicki assumed that must mean rapid fire of some sort because it was proceeded by a disclaimer.

The kid was just learning to shoot the AR platform, no? With the terms auto, semi-auto, and burst being tossed back and forth, it’s possible he got them mixed up. Or am I the only one who reads the transcripts as if he is sometimes differentiating auto and burst?

That the government was able to lead him to the testify that “Three rounds come out” from the phrase “three-round burst wouldn’t work” also demonstrates that he is either, A, easily confused, and/or B, not a linguist. To say the least.

And who knows how much of this terminology he learned or relearned from coaching by ATF.

Between the incredibility of the star witness and the circumstantial nature of the evidence, I see nothing to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

I think Olofson was charged under 922(o), for the transfer of a machine gun manufactured after 1986, rather than the § 5861(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. 922(o) is part of the United States criminal code.