GUNMAG By Lee Williams On Tuesday, May 20, 2025
SAF Investigative Journalism Project
Former U.S. Navy sailor Patrick “Tate” Adamiak still has 17 years left of his original 20-year criminal sentence, even though a lengthy examination of the evidence used against him raised significant questions about whether he even did anything wrong, much less illegal.
From 2016 to his arrest in 2022, Adamiak bought, sold and traded thousands of gun parts on GunBroker.com and later his own website.
“I never sold a single item that qualifies as a firearm or requires an FFL I only sold non-regulated gun parts,” Adamiak said this week. “It’s my opinion and my family’s that the ATF realized they messed up after they didn’t come up with a single illegal weapon, so they completely reinterpreted the statutes and implemented new rules to spin the jury and get a conviction. They manufactured crimes convict me.”
We have shown how items the ATF and federal prosecutors alleged were illegal are still sold legally online: Inert RPGs, toy STENs, open-bolt semi-autos and inert M79s and M203 launchers. Most do not even require any paperwork for the sale.
But the ATF’s falsehoods worked and Adamiak was convicted. How then was he sentenced to serve 20 years in a federal prison?
The answer is simple. Prosecutors and the court relied upon federal sentencing guidelines to determine how long Adamiak would spend behind bars, even though nothing found in his home was actually illegal.
More:
http://www.thegunmag.com/how-patrick-tate-adamiak-received-a-20-year-prison-sentence/
