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February 28, 2025 14 mins
What the ATF has done, and is doing, to citizens of this country is literally a crime. The GunWriter, Lee Williams, details the abuses in the case of Patrick "Tate" Adamiak
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, friends, welcome the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Great to be with you this morning, and it is Friday.
Great to always have with us. Lee Williams. He is
the gun Writer. You can find his work at his website,
Thegunriter dot substack dot com. Lee's kind enough to carve
out time for us once a month. Hello friend, how

(00:22):
are you?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm doing well, sir? How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm terrific. The nature of the things that you cover
now is the same, but it's different. I'm curious to
know what your reaction was when Donald Trump made the
decision to slide ATF's management under Cash Bettel, the new
director of the FBI.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, I'll tell you, everybody in the gun and community
went huh okay, it sounds and I pray this is
going to happen. Brother. It sounds like he may whack
it or carve it up. Everybody was worried that he's
going to pick a your cat to be the ATF director,
But then he gave it to Cash. Two. We don't

(01:07):
know right now what exactly ATF is going to look like.
I hope they keep three or four people on fire
and the rest. It is a terrible organization. It should
not exist. If they would have given it to somebody,
you know, with some financial or management background, he would
just want to rebuild it. But Cash has his hands

(01:28):
fall with the DoD so we'll see. I hope, I
pray that he's going to chop it in a little
indie bitty bins.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I found a lot of comfort in Pam Bondi's decision
to fire the General Council, because the General Council for ATF,
who had been there since twenty twenty one, was likely
behind some of the most egregious decisions that ATF has
made in the last four.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Years, without a doubt, without a dot. She was an evil, evil,
evil person who's lucky to make it out of there
without was quite frankly, without facing any criminal charges. Because
that's the way it should be. I mean, my god, man,
look at what that agency has done. Okay, you don't

(02:20):
have to look very far, because well, they targeted you know,
the Mark Manley and his family had grenades thrown at him.
Russell Fincher lost his farm. Oh and you can ask
Brian Melanowski's widow what she thinks of him, because ATF
shot and killed her husband. Brian but you know he's

(02:42):
running an airport, never had any interaction with law enforcement.
ATF is a sick joke, bro, and it needs to
be put down.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Couldn't you argue that Cash Betel might actually be perfect
in this regard? There needs to be an investigation of
the criminal actions that went on inside ATF over the
last several years.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I would say, huge, Yeah, I mean it's like, who
aren't you going to charge? Their malfeasance is legendary. Every
big investigation they've ever tried to do, they screw up,
and you know, occasionally somebody dies, or a whole community
like in Waco, Texas, will die. It's sick.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
We've got time left this morning to talk about something
that I know is very important to Lee. It's a
story he's written about multiple times. It's the story of
a sailor serving twenty years in prison for legal semi
automatic collectibles. You can shake your head all you want
and say, come on, that's not happening, But as we've

(03:50):
just sort of documented, that's exactly what's been going on
under the ATF.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
He is.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
The gun writer. Lee Williams joins us this morning. Lee
tell us the story of Patrick Tate is it a damiak.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
A dombiac. Yeah, you're you're pretty close.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Where where does this begin?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Even East six in the Navy, Going for one, he
had been accepted to go and go to Seal School
out in Coronado, California, and he had done some preliminary stuff.
He was going to get promoted to an one. He
had gotten his degree as an enlisted man in the Navy. Now,
for those of you who aren't familiar with special operations,

(04:43):
that's pretty rare. You know, they only have an X
number of officer spots in Seal School and they like
to give him to graduates from college, graduates from Annapolis.
So him getting that was a pretty big deal. Meanwhile,
all all of his adult life he been dealing with
gun parts on several websites. He's been selling legal gun parts.

(05:07):
So of course ATF tries to entrap him. He's got
some ATF snitch who was going after a completely innocent man.
They kick a search warrant at his home. Every single
thing they find is one percent legal. Every single thing
they find in as safe as one hundred percent legal.

(05:27):
So what do they do well? ATF sends in this
dufust named Jeffrey Bodell. He's ATF Firearms enforcement officer. He
takes the the guy has a toy sten gun. Okay,
it doesn't fire around in one chamber around. He puts
a sten action in a sten barrel of a magazine
won't fit, and he gets the thing to go bang once.

(05:49):
Admiak had had five very expensive and extremely collectible, perfectly
legal semi atos that fire from an open bowl. Based
on the MAC ten. All the ATF technician could achieve
was semi automatic fire with these. He classified all five
as machine guns. There were several receivers that have been

(06:11):
cut in half. The guy called them machine guns. Same
parts you can buy online right now. We can go
to the website. You don't even get an FFL or
any paperwork. Bodell had three inert RPGs, rocket propelled grenade launchers.
They had holes drilled in him. They were stripped of
their internal parts. He picked them up at some kind
of fare somewhere. Their ATF expert added parts from real

(06:35):
RPGs until he could fire not a rocket but a
single seventy six two by thirty nine millimeters round. As
a result, they were destructive devices. He went to court
he got sentenced to twenty years. He is serving. He's
on like year number two right now. It's just crazy, brother,
Why is this such a big deal? Because if they're

(06:56):
going to go after and prosecute Adomiak, who was an
innocent e six, say he'd be leading a special warfare
platoon right now, They'll go after anybody. And you know,
I wrote seven stories I think on this because this
is a good guy. I've talked to him several times,
practically every day in prison. He's in New Jersey, and

(07:17):
you know he's a good guy who doesn't belong there.
But the ATF lied at nauseum about him.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
This is horrifying.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
It is.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
So who's to fay? This clearly has to be under
appeal or is it not.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's under appeal, but you know those can take years. Brother,
President Trump could let him out right now on a part,
pardon him and let him.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Go, and then he needs to file suit against ATF.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Absolutely absolutely every single thing. And I've gone through the
list one hundred times. They took like sixty things from him.
All of them are legal. And if you don't believe
they're legal, let's go to these gun websites and you
can buy them. You can buy them right now. Half
of them. Most of them you don't even need your
driver's license. They're not firearms. It's a gun tit where

(08:13):
the receiver's been chopped in a half. So who was
who turned everything into machine guns and grenade launchers and
destructive devices?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
So who was defending Patrick at the very outset of this?
Or did he not have the resources to hire an attorney?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
He hired an attorney. The attorney was kind of a joke.
He hired good experts too, but the judge wouldn't The
judge was part of the problem. Wouldn't let the experts testify.
And you know you should read this, Bodell's.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
This sounds like a John Grisham novel.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Lee. Oh, it's horrible. It's horrible. That's why I've devoted
seven stories, and I got to tell you they're being read.
I've never seen tracks on my Twitter a million page
views on one tweet. It's just amazing how this kid
is getting known and we need to pass his name around.

(09:11):
This guy, I can't tell you what a good man is.
He was going to lead a seal place two. It's
just mind numbing.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Brother twenty one minutes past the hour. Lee Williams with
me his website, Thegunwriter dot substack dot com. You can
find the articles and the opinions. There's five article fact
based articles and there are a couple of op eds
written by Lee Williams on a young man serving twenty years.

(09:40):
He committed no crime. He had nothing in his possession
that was illegal. And Lee, I think people are right
now sitting there saying this can't happen in America, but
it's happening.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
It is. I mean, they rebuilt ATF, rebuilt a toy
gun and three d watt means completely demilitarized RPGs to
make their case against an innocent man. What won't they do?
I mean, look at these people who've been victimized before,

(10:13):
like Mark Manley. Okay, he doesn't know if he's going
to be charged. Same thing there. They didn't find anything
in his helm that was illegal, but he's told, yeah,
you're going to be under investigation. Brian Melanowski, same thing.
What would they have charged him with? Oh, that's right,
they shot him. AHF is completely completely lost control. Whoever

(10:35):
signing their warrants is nuts. It's just like this case here.
I've never seen anything this bad, brother, I mean, I've
covered I've written hundreds of stories on ATF for fifteen years.
I have never seen anything this bad. Where you have
a great guy, I mean, was accepted to seal school, Okay,

(10:56):
was going to be a Navy seal. And the Navy
never bought into the charges either. Now, once he went
to once he went to jail, once the trial was
going on, they could have reduced him that E won,
but no, they paid out. Is they kept him as
an E six because his friends had gone to an
agent said hey, this is what ATF's doing and this

(11:16):
is screwed up. Navy bought into that. He was allowed
to quit his military career with honor. He received an
honorable discharge in prison. ATF is completely bogus on this.
I can't tell you that enough.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, you and I talked off air about you know
some people that we know through the show that we're
going to reach out to. But what would you like
people listening to know? And what can they do?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
First thing is go to his website, freedomfor Tate dot org.
That's Freedom for Tate as in Patrick Tate adomiak dot org.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Actually it's a dot com too.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Okay, read about it. Read about his story. My stories
are on there, everybody's stories are on there. Read about
him and get up to speed, and then go to
your lawmakers. He needs a presidential pardon, and then it's
time to go after the ATF if there's any ATF
left by them, and I hope there will be, because

(12:18):
somebody needs to go to prison for what they did
to him.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, it's not enough. Look, obviously you accept the pardon,
you accept getting him out of prison immediately, but that's
not good enough. He needs to be restored, He needs
to be made whole. There needs to be restitution paid
to him, and then there needs to be accountability to

(12:41):
the people that made this happen, including the judge that
ran a farce of a trial and would not allow
evidence that is overwhelmingly admissible into the court evidence for
the trial.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know, And I still think about these young seals
in his seal platoon and how he would have been
a great officer and and these guys would have really
benefited from being in his platoon. Uh, that just hurts
me as a military man. That it's it's sad man.
I mean, he'll never he can get out tomorrow. He

(13:15):
will never be a naval officer, and that's that sucks.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Why couldn't he be?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, it's so competitive to get in, uh, especially especially
a special in the unit like that is. He just couldn't.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
But but but a wrongful convictionally in this circumstance would
would almost require a Navy reinstatement.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, you know, I'm all for that. I hope the
Navy would do that. I just don't see it happening.
I'm more concerned right now. I'm getting him getting his
butt out of prison. Sure, he is serving in a
medium security in New Jersey, and yeah, I mean he's
he's doing tasks every day, trying to focus on his case.

(14:02):
But every time I talk to him, it's on a
payphone and you'll have to run and go to get
his ID checked. And I mean it's just a hassle.
And he, like I said, he did nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Right, Lee. Thank you for what you're doing. Thank you
for all you've written on this and sharing his story
on the program today. And we will use whatever resources
we have available to us to try to help and
advance the cause.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Excellent. I can't thank you enough, brother, That's what we need.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Thank you Sir Lee Williams with us this morning again
the website Thegunwriter dot substack dot com. But I think
Lee would immediately say, go to this website, Freedom for
Tate fo R, Freedom for Tate dot com and you'll
see the entire story there. This Morning Show with Preston
Scott
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