January 31, 2025 • 8 mins
This is the story of Patrick Tate Adamiak and how the ATF lied to wrongfully convict a Navy sailor.
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(00:15):
Welcome to the Live2Shootpodcast.
This is Jeff Dowdell.
I've been a licensed firearmdealer for the last 17 years.
In this podcast, we talk aboutall things related to the Second
Amendment as well as anythingelse going on in the world.
Sports story or anything elsethat I might find interesting.
So welcome.
Welcome.
Welcome.
So been an interesting week Butthis time I wanted to just
dedicate a little short time onthis podcast to tell the story
(00:38):
of Patrick Tate Adam Adam Iac hegoes by Tate Tate is a US Navy
sail sailor that was Targeted bythe ATF and Arrested and
convicted for 20 years fordealing in controlled firearms
(01:02):
such as grenade launchers,machine guns, and etc.
So purpose of this is to startgetting the, is getting the word
out about Tate's situation.
And let me just tell youexactly, you know, what
happened.
So Tate was a Navy, Navy sailor.
He had accumulated a variety ofWorld War ii relics and
(01:24):
souvenirs, and he sold them onhis website, uniforms, things
like that.
But he also sold replica.
Machine guns, parts cut updisassembled parts for firearms
on his website.
And while he's doing this, theATF took a criminal informant
who had, you know chargespending against him and
(01:49):
challenged him to go out andjust see if you can buy a
machine gun illegally.
And so he went out, was notsuccessful in purchasing a
machine gun, but he did get toTate's website and he bought
some of Tate's Replica parts anddisassembled and and parts and
took them back and showed theATF how he could potentially
(02:12):
assemble these to become aworking machine gun.
Now the ATF was never able tomake these firearms actually
function as a machine gunbecause they were replicas.
They weren't actual parts.
But, Tate was arrested.
And I will just give you youknow, some statement of the
facts that are present.
(02:33):
One, Tate had never been introuble with the law.
He had not a single charged itemthat seized from Tate's
collection was functional orsuitable.
Senior ATF special agent andpresident of the International
Firearms Specialist Academy,Daniel G.
O'Kelley, has examined each itemTate is in prison for and has
concluded that not a singlearticle qualifies as a firearm
(02:55):
under any federal law.
Tate received no warning fromthe ATF that their new
unpublished, unpromulgatedinternal policy would turn his
hobby into a life ruining crimeand we'll get back to that here
in just a minute.
The exact items Tate isconvicted for possessing are
still openly being marketed andsold daily.
The ATF is aware and no actionhas been taken.
(03:17):
Tate was discharged from the U.
S.
Navy due to these charges withfull honors after a thorough
hearing despite an overzealousprosecutor's repeated attempts
to taint his discharge board togive him a dishonorable
discharge.
The prosecutor used Tate'smilitary experience and training
against him to sustain aconviction.
Tate was not being investigateduntil a paid ATF criminal
(03:38):
informant attempted to entrapTate to get himself out of
pending new charges.
The informant reported seeing amachine gun in Tate's garage,
which turned out to be an airpowered replica.
The ATF employee that classifiedall the weapons Tate is
imprisoned for testified that,in the example of an M16, a
sharpie marker indicated wherean auto sear pin hole would be
(04:00):
located.
could convert the AR 15 into amachine gun is enough to
classify that element as amachine gun.
To put this in layman's terms,the ATF is of the opinion that
drawing on an unregulated semiautomatic firearm with a marker
turns it into a machine gun.
That's very similar to how theydetermined that a shoelace at
one point could be a machinegun.
(04:20):
You know, this is you know, moreevidence.
of a government that does notvalue their citizens, has the
the Biden administration thatzealously, actively pursued to
try and turn law abidingcitizens into criminals for
political means.
And this is, again, an examplethat of how this ATF is is out
(04:45):
of control and needs to beranked in.
Timeline of what happened withTate was that he, on April 22nd,
April 7th, 2022, he was arrestedin his home and raided by dozens
of armed federal agents severaldays before Biden announces a
new parts regulation to thepublic for the first time.
So, he's arrested for aninternal rule that has not even
(05:06):
been published yet.
On April 11th, Four days later,Biden holds a press conference
about ATF's new priority toregulate gun parts.
April August 24, 2022, ATF'sfinal new rule goes into effect.
October 21, 2022, Tate isconvicted for possession of
unregistered firearms, nonfunctional military replicas of
(05:27):
various gun parts that were notcovered by any federal statute
prior to the new rule.
On June 13, Tate is sentenced to20 years in federal prison.
November 9th, the federal, of2023.
This is, you know, a few monthsafter he's sentenced.
Federal Court of Appeals strikesdown and vacates this ATF
illegal rule.
(05:48):
And then, as of now, state, Tateis still in prison.
So, what does this tell ya?
We still need to do somethingabout the ATF.
The purpose of this is to getTate's story out.
It is starting to hit othermedia sources, articles, other
podcasts because the SecondAmendment Foundation has gotten
(06:09):
a hold of this and they'retrying to get Tate released.
And so I'm just doing my part totell Tell, tell Tate's story,
because if something like thiswere to happen to me, I hope
everybody in the community wouldband together and start
spreading the word.
Not that my few listeners aregoing to make an impact, but one
of you might.
One of you might know somebodyelse that can, you can
(06:31):
communicate this to, or you canshare it on your social media.
And and continue to you know,you tell two friends and I'll
tell two friends type thingWe've got to get these stories
out And so that we can reignthis, atf in and hopefully, with
the new administration Actuallymake them perform their
constitutional duty ofprotecting the Constitution and
(06:53):
not illegally going after andviolating the due process rights
of American citizens, which thisis definitely a case of that.
So in the notes of this, I amgoing to put a link to Tate's
Gifts and Go, if you'd like todonate.
to his legal defense becausehe's definitely going to need
all that.
And please share this podcastwith somebody or share the
(07:13):
story.
Tell others of this is justanother instance of our federal
government being out of control.
These federal agencies, theselaw enforcement agencies, the
ATF, the FBI, the CIA, they arespying and, and, um, over
abusing our American citizenswrongfully.
(07:36):
And, you, it can, it startedwith our president, and it has
worked on down, and the, and thereason, you know, Trump said
that he was running forpresident was because if they
can do this to him, they'll doit to us, and they have been
doing it to us.
The Biden administration, thankgoodness they're gone.
They're the most corruptadministration ever.
I am pretty confident that willstay in the history of time.
(07:59):
And hopefully we can spend sometime within the next four years
cleaning things up and gettingAmerica back on the right track.
So I appreciate you listening.
Please share Tate's story andget this out.
So that maybe he can getreleased out of prison.
He's got, since the 20 years,he's served two already for
wrongfully being convicted ofselling machine gun parts for
(08:23):
machine guns that, for partsthat cannot be made into machine
guns.
Huh, figure that one out.
That is our ATF.
Well, take care.
Have a great weekend.
And, again, spread the word.
Welcome to the Live2Shootpodcast.
This is Jeff Dowdell.
I've been a licensed firearmdealer for the last 17 years.
In this podcast, we talk aboutall things related to the Second
Amendment as well as anythingelse going on in the world.
Sports story or anything elsethat I might find interesting.
So welcome.
Welcome.
Welcome.
So been an interesting week Butthis time I wanted to just
dedicate a little short time onthis podcast to tell the story
(00:38):
of Patrick Tate Adam Adam Iac hegoes by Tate Tate is a US Navy
sail sailor that was Targeted bythe ATF and Arrested and
convicted for 20 years fordealing in controlled firearms
(01:02):
such as grenade launchers,machine guns, and etc.
So purpose of this is to startgetting the, is getting the word
out about Tate's situation.
And let me just tell youexactly, you know, what
happened.
So Tate was a Navy, Navy sailor.
He had accumulated a variety ofWorld War ii relics and
(01:24):
souvenirs, and he sold them onhis website, uniforms, things
like that.
But he also sold replica.
Machine guns, parts cut updisassembled parts for firearms
on his website.
And while he's doing this, theATF took a criminal informant
who had, you know chargespending against him and
(01:49):
challenged him to go out andjust see if you can buy a
machine gun illegally.
And so he went out, was notsuccessful in purchasing a
machine gun, but he did get toTate's website and he bought
some of Tate's Replica parts anddisassembled and and parts and
took them back and showed theATF how he could potentially
(02:12):
assemble these to become aworking machine gun.
Now the ATF was never able tomake these firearms actually
function as a machine gunbecause they were replicas.
They weren't actual parts.
But, Tate was arrested.
And I will just give you youknow, some statement of the
facts that are present.
(02:33):
One, Tate had never been introuble with the law.
He had not a single charged itemthat seized from Tate's
collection was functional orsuitable.
Senior ATF special agent andpresident of the International
Firearms Specialist Academy,Daniel G.
O'Kelley, has examined each itemTate is in prison for and has
concluded that not a singlearticle qualifies as a firearm
(02:55):
under any federal law.
Tate received no warning fromthe ATF that their new
unpublished, unpromulgatedinternal policy would turn his
hobby into a life ruining crimeand we'll get back to that here
in just a minute.
The exact items Tate isconvicted for possessing are
still openly being marketed andsold daily.
The ATF is aware and no actionhas been taken.
(03:17):
Tate was discharged from the U.
S.
Navy due to these charges withfull honors after a thorough
hearing despite an overzealousprosecutor's repeated attempts
to taint his discharge board togive him a dishonorable
discharge.
The prosecutor used Tate'smilitary experience and training
against him to sustain aconviction.
Tate was not being investigateduntil a paid ATF criminal
(03:38):
informant attempted to entrapTate to get himself out of
pending new charges.
The informant reported seeing amachine gun in Tate's garage,
which turned out to be an airpowered replica.
The ATF employee that classifiedall the weapons Tate is
imprisoned for testified that,in the example of an M16, a
sharpie marker indicated wherean auto sear pin hole would be
(04:00):
located.
could convert the AR 15 into amachine gun is enough to
classify that element as amachine gun.
To put this in layman's terms,the ATF is of the opinion that
drawing on an unregulated semiautomatic firearm with a marker
turns it into a machine gun.
That's very similar to how theydetermined that a shoelace at
one point could be a machinegun.
(04:20):
You know, this is you know, moreevidence.
of a government that does notvalue their citizens, has the
the Biden administration thatzealously, actively pursued to
try and turn law abidingcitizens into criminals for
political means.
And this is, again, an examplethat of how this ATF is is out
(04:45):
of control and needs to beranked in.
Timeline of what happened withTate was that he, on April 22nd,
April 7th, 2022, he was arrestedin his home and raided by dozens
of armed federal agents severaldays before Biden announces a
new parts regulation to thepublic for the first time.
So, he's arrested for aninternal rule that has not even
(05:06):
been published yet.
On April 11th, Four days later,Biden holds a press conference
about ATF's new priority toregulate gun parts.
April August 24, 2022, ATF'sfinal new rule goes into effect.
October 21, 2022, Tate isconvicted for possession of
unregistered firearms, nonfunctional military replicas of
(05:27):
various gun parts that were notcovered by any federal statute
prior to the new rule.
On June 13, Tate is sentenced to20 years in federal prison.
November 9th, the federal, of2023.
This is, you know, a few monthsafter he's sentenced.
Federal Court of Appeals strikesdown and vacates this ATF
illegal rule.
(05:48):
And then, as of now, state, Tateis still in prison.
So, what does this tell ya?
We still need to do somethingabout the ATF.
The purpose of this is to getTate's story out.
It is starting to hit othermedia sources, articles, other
podcasts because the SecondAmendment Foundation has gotten
(06:09):
a hold of this and they'retrying to get Tate released.
And so I'm just doing my part totell Tell, tell Tate's story,
because if something like thiswere to happen to me, I hope
everybody in the community wouldband together and start
spreading the word.
Not that my few listeners aregoing to make an impact, but one
of you might.
One of you might know somebodyelse that can, you can
(06:31):
communicate this to, or you canshare it on your social media.
And and continue to you know,you tell two friends and I'll
tell two friends type thingWe've got to get these stories
out And so that we can reignthis, atf in and hopefully, with
the new administration Actuallymake them perform their
constitutional duty ofprotecting the Constitution and
(06:53):
not illegally going after andviolating the due process rights
of American citizens, which thisis definitely a case of that.
So in the notes of this, I amgoing to put a link to Tate's
Gifts and Go, if you'd like todonate.
to his legal defense becausehe's definitely going to need
all that.
And please share this podcastwith somebody or share the
(07:13):
story.
Tell others of this is justanother instance of our federal
government being out of control.
These federal agencies, theselaw enforcement agencies, the
ATF, the FBI, the CIA, they arespying and, and, um, over
abusing our American citizenswrongfully.
(07:36):
And, you, it can, it startedwith our president, and it has
worked on down, and the, and thereason, you know, Trump said
that he was running forpresident was because if they
can do this to him, they'll doit to us, and they have been
doing it to us.
The Biden administration, thankgoodness they're gone.
They're the most corruptadministration ever.
I am pretty confident that willstay in the history of time.
(07:59):
And hopefully we can spend sometime within the next four years
cleaning things up and gettingAmerica back on the right track.
So I appreciate you listening.
Please share Tate's story andget this out.
So that maybe he can getreleased out of prison.
He's got, since the 20 years,he's served two already for
wrongfully being convicted ofselling machine gun parts for
(08:23):
machine guns that, for partsthat cannot be made into machine
guns.
Huh, figure that one out.
That is our ATF.
Well, take care.
Have a great weekend.
And, again, spread the word.
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