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| Seized missiles were legal, school says |
| 2002-08-19 |
| Thousands of missiles seized by federal agents from a counter-terrorism school in New Mexico were licensed and had been obtained legally, an official of the school said on Monday. David Hudak — president of HEAT, or High Energy Access Tools, an antiterrorism and police-training services company — was arrested last week on federal explosives and immigration charges. Toldja it's a non-story... Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms said they found 49 crates of armor-piercing missiles at the school, which had clients from Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, and believe there are about another 4,000 pounds of munitions on the premises. Frank Fish, HEAT's director of security, said Hudak's visa had expired but insisted his boss had come by the weapons legally. "The weapons that he had are licensed. We do have the paperwork for that," Fish said on CBS's "The Early Show." "I'm sure after the ATF have finished their look, they'll see that everything is in order." The weapons had come through customs legally from Canada and were on HEAT's inventory, which had been inspected by the ATF, Fish said. It's so much easier to catch the law-abiding than the crooks, ain't it? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 ATF = Assclowns Trampling Freedom. I suggest they concentrate on the booze and tabaco they have repeatedly shown they are incapable of enforcing firearms laws with out running rough shod over the bill of rights and without killing inocent people. You are less likley to be killed by a terrorist than you are by an ATF agent. This is also very old news. 8/19/2002 This guy did nothing wrong period. |
| Posted by: Flamebait93268 2004-08-18 5:31:13 PM |
| #3 Hudak's visa expired and he had 49 crates of rockets training Yemenis and UAE arabs...nothing to see here, move along.. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-18 5:27:32 PM |
| #2 Hell BATF just hates rockets of any kind. Browse the rocket society just for fun. Hmmmmm.... Come to think of it RantBurg needs a Prefect. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-18 5:19:48 PM |
| #1 *raises hand* Um... what, pray tell, was he going to do with those 49 crates plus 4000 lbs. of munition? 'Cause the 4th of July was last month... And even if everything is legal, that doesn't exactly calm my fears; a bunch of the 9-11 terrorists were in here legally as well. |
| Posted by: Just John 2002-08-19 17:23:18 |