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Title: Decorated Silver Star Veteran, POW Sentenced to 7 Years for a Gun He Bought 40 Years Ago
Source: Free Thought Project
URL Source: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/d ... -a-gun-he-bought-40-years-ago/
Published: Oct 19, 2018
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2018-10-19 11:26:42 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 7655
Comments: 45

Plano, TX — Alfred Pick served his country honorably. After going on over 100 combat missions in Vietnam, Pick was given the military’s third highest honor, the Silver Star. He was also captured and did time as a POW. Now, after escaping a cage in Vietnam 40 years ago, the country he laid down his life for is throwing him back in a cage—over a decades-old gun.

At a gun show 40 years ago, Pick bought the rare M-14 rifle, similar to the one he used in Vietnam while he served in the Army. He put this rifle in a case, along with 14 other extremely rare guns and proudly displayed them in his Texas home for four decades.

“This gun was very rare at that time it was rare to see one so he instantly had a connection to it,” said Pick’s attorney Ryne Sandel. “Over the course of his life he and his wife and collected about 14 weapons, many of them were collectors items.”

As CBS DFW reports, Pick lived in Plano’s Air Park neighborhood along with other pilots who enjoy a runway right outside their homes. The 70-year-old Vietnam veteran even served as the president of his homeowners association. Thus, when the ATF raided his home last year it came as a shock to friends like Mark Shackelford.

“He’s always been a good person to me,” Shackelford said.

When federal agents raided this American Hero’s home, they were looking for and seized the rare M-14 rifle that pick bought in the early 80’s at a Fort Worth gun show.

“He was a gun collector and it was probably the piece de resistance of his collection… he had shown it to me. I’ve never seen it taken it out of the case,” said Shackelford.

Instead of simply telling Pick that his rifle was “illegal” and asking him to modify or remove the firing pin to make it inoperable, masked agents of the state—armed with automatic rifles—ransacked the recent widower’s home, kidnapped, and caged him.

Because the raid and arrest came just two weeks after his wife died of cancer, agents also found her cannabis that she used as medicine. This was tacked on as another charge.

This week, for having a rifle similar to the one he actually “defended your freedoms” with in Vietnam, Pick was sentenced to 87 months in prison by a judge. This, after he’d already spent the last year in a cage.

“He’s a really remarkable man to be honest,” said Sandel. “I do think it’s unfortunate for a gentleman like Alfred that’s had such an outstanding life to have it mired at the age of 70 by this federal felony.”

In the land of the free, you can be issued a rifle to kill people in foreign countries at the direction of American politicians. However, if you come home and purchase this same gun to display to your friends and family, you will be sentenced to die in prison. And we still have the audacity to call this “freedom.”

“The man is a Silver Star winner, he saved lives, he took care of his wife, he’s been in custody for a year, I would think that when a man turned 70 and is an American hero you don’t destroy the rest of his life for one mistake,” said Shackelford.

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#6. To: Deckard, misterwhite, Stoner, A K A Stone (#0)

Deckard, Matt Agorist, and The Free Thought Project strike again.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/10/17/decorated-vietnam-veteran-pow-sentenced-to-7-years-for-mistake-made-decades-ago/

Vietnam War Hero Sentenced On Illegal Gun Charges Was Violent And Abusive, Prosecutors Say

UPDATED: October 19, 2018 4:50 PM
By J.D. Miles
October 17, 2018 at 4:14 pm

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Federal prosecutors released more information on Friday shedding light on Pick’s dark past.

According to information presented to the court, Pick had repeatedly been cited for criminal trespass at various area hospitals for his aggressive behavior, involving both verbal and physical abuse of medical staff and impeding staff. The court also heard that police had been called on two prior occasions in 2014 to restaurant parking lots where patrons reported that Pick had been threatening and brandished handguns in encounters with him.

Also, Pick’s daughter reported to Pick had sexually abused her from the time she was 4-years-old until the age of 17, taking nude photographs of her to, as he put it, “chart her growth” and sexually assaulting her.

The court also received evidence that Pick threatened the Federal Magistrate Judge who detained him indicating he would fly his plane with explosives to kill the Judge and ATF agents who investigated his case. Pick also said he would “have taught the Las Vegas shooter a thing or two,” referring to the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting.

“Obviously, there was a lot more to the sentence that was received – a sentence that Mr. Pick and his lawyer agreed to – than a single gun with a missing serial number,” said U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown. “Although Mr. Pick was a decorated veteran, he would use that status routinely to try to excuse his repeated criminal behavior. This was also not a mental health issue. It became a public safety issue.”

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Bill Hobbs
October 18, 2018 at 3:39 pm

Read this and warning bells rang because of the statement, “Short time as a POW”. I checked a number of Vietnam POW data bases and did not find Alfred Pick listed anywhere. So spent some time searching various data bases and again could not find any listing of a Silver Star or any awards for Alfred Pick.. I’m just an old disabled Marine Gunner so maybe I’m wrong. Semper Fi.

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John Hammond
October 18, 2018 at 4:04 pm

Pick was originally charged with 3 counts, including making a terrorist threat to the staff at a local hospital saying “What happened in Las Vegas is nothing compared to what I’m going to do to you people”. This resulted in them raiding his home to search for weapons and finding cocaine, pot and an automatic rifle with the serial number filed off. He has been banned from other hospitals as well. His only daughter was sexually abused by both Al and his wife from the age of 4 years old including digital and oral penetration, pornographic photographs, vibrators and forced bubble baths with body rubbing. Al denied this vehemently at the hearing, His daughter had photograph proof which she retrieved from Al’s house following his arrest. The judge reviewed the photographs with both attorneys in closed chambers and found Alfred’s denials and statements regarding his character to be false. When his house was raided, child pornography was also confiscated. Al confided to another neighbor that he had stolen the automatic weapon during a target practice session, hiding it under some leaves and returning that night to the range to retrieve it. A few years ago Al was arrested for banishing [sic - brandishing] a weapon over a parking space. Al refused to allow his wife’s body to be released for cremation for two weeks, holding it hostage as a tool to force his release.

Al Pick’s neighbor for many, many years.

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Evidence was presented regarding Defendant’s verbal threat to kill hospital employees. Evidence was also presented regarding items recovered at Defendant’s residence, including, but not limited to, fourteen firearms, one of which was a machine gun, ammunition, marijuana, and cocaine. Evidence was also presented regarding Defendant’s habitual drug use, as well as alleged sexual misconduct with his daughter, including inappropriate pictures of his daughter as a minor. Notably, not one family member would agree to be Defendant’s third party custodian, and all expressed that they would fear for their safety if Defendant was released. Finally, evidence was presented that Defendant is a trained and licensed pilot and owns a plane. Based on the evidence presented at the hearing, the Court is unable to fashion any conditions that would ensure the safety of the community and that would ensure Defendant’s appearance as required in these proceedings. Therefore, the United States’ motion for detention (Dkt. 5) is GRANTED, and Defendant is detained pending trial.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/guns/2018/10/17/american-hero-plano-sentenced-7-years-decades-old-rifle-purchase

Vietnam vet from Plano gets 7 years in prison after plea deal over decades-old rifle purchase

Written by Marc Ramirez, Breaking News Reporter DallasNews.com

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Pick pleaded guilty to the charge in April in a deal with federal prosecutors.

"It was probably the piece de resistance of his collection," Mark Shackelford, a friend of Pick's, told the TV station. "He had shown it to me. I've never seen it taken out of the case."

Federal agents also found Pick to be in possession of cocaine and marijuana, according to his indictment.

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#19. To: nolu chan (#6)

This was also not a mental health issue. It became a public safety issue.”

It is usually both.

Pick was originally charged with 3 counts, including making a terrorist threat to the staff at a local hospital saying “What happened in Las Vegas is nothing compared to what I’m going to do to you people”. This resulted in them raiding his home to search for weapons and finding cocaine, pot and an automatic rifle with the serial number filed off.

I would be willing to bet he filed the number off himself. Filing/grinding a serial number off a gun instantly decreases it's sales value by at least 90 percent. ANYBODY that buys a gun with the serial number removed is either clueless or a fool because you can never make the claim you didn't know the weapon was stolen. Not even if you were that ignorant. Nobody is going to believe it.

Al confided to another neighbor that he had stolen the automatic weapon during a target practice session, hiding it under some leaves and returning that night to the range to retrieve it.

Yeah,ask ANYBODY that has ever been in the military how likely that is to happen. You ain't seen people jump through their asses until you have seen a full-auto weapon disappear between the range and the arms room. On top of that,everyone that came to the range came there in possession of a weapon,and platoon sgts routinely check each weapon to make sure it is unloaded before they leave the range. If you are standing there and don't have a weapon to show before getting on the trucks,you are going to have some splainin to do.

After reading the update nolu chan posted,I have to change my opinion to "lock his crazy,evil,child-molesting ass UP!" This guy is not senile,he is just a liar and evil on top of it.

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#23. To: sneakypete (#19)

Yeah,ask ANYBODY that has ever been in the military how likely that is to happen. You ain't seen people jump through their asses until you have seen a full-auto weapon disappear between the range and the arms room. On top of that,everyone that came to the range came there in possession of a weapon,and platoon sgts routinely check each weapon to make sure it is unloaded before they leave the range. If you are standing there and don't have a weapon to show before getting on the trucks,you are going to have some splainin to do.

Tks. Common sailors very rarely went to a range. SEALS and SeaBees would do that.

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#26. To: nolu chan (#23)

Tks. Common sailors very rarely went to a range. SEALS and SeaBees would do that.

They probably did like we did in SF. Not so formal. Everybody went to the arms room and checked out there weapons and ammo,and jumped into their cars and drove to the range. The highest ranking people there got stuck with being the range safety officers and NCO's. The rest of us would just blast away on full-auto to get it over with,get back in our cars,and go back to the arms room to turn them in after cleaning them.

It was a waste of time and ammo to require us to go to the range once a year to prove we knew how to shoot safely and that we could hit what we were aiming at,but the army required it.

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