CCRKBA AMICUS BRIEF SUPPORTS SAILOR CONVICTED OF GUN CRIMES BY BIDEN ATF
BELLEVUE, WA – “The facts of this case are outrageous,” says an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in support of a decorated Navy veteran convicted of crimes he really didn’t commit, but was prosecuted by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was sentenced to 20 years in prison because he possessed cut-up gun parts and a fake RPG-7. CCRKBA’s brief describes this as a “travesty of justice.”
CCRKBA is joined by the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center and the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus. They are represented by attorneys C.D. Michel and Anna M. Barvier at Michel & Associates, Long Beach, Calif., and Konstadinos T. Moros at the SAF offices in Bellevue, Washington.
“Our petition covers the legal arguments well,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and it only scratches the surface of this complex and unjust saga. However, SAF’s publication, TheGunMag.com, has covered the story extensively through its investigative journalism project, which we’re hoping the Court reads.
Adamiak’s ordeal especially highlights the damaging flaw in this Court’s insistence on waiting for sufficient “percolation” before finally confirming which arms are protected by the Second Amendment, the brief explains.
“Tate Adamiak’s situation reflects the most extreme example of the human cost of this Court’s ongoing reluctance to resolve pressing Second Amendment issues,” Gottlieb said. “The Supreme Court has been slow-walking the Second Amendment long enough. The case against Tate Adamiak is a disgrace, and we have to wonder how many more such cases might occur while the country waits for the nation’s highest court to hand down a ruling which prevents this sort of thing from happening again.
“We understand the desire to not upend cases currently sitting in lower courts,” he observed, “but many of those cases are gathering dust because the courts do not want to act. It’s time for the Supreme Court to set things in order.”
