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See other Bang / Guns Articles Title: Decorated Silver Star Veteran, POW Sentenced to 7 Years for a Gun He Bought 40 Years Ago
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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
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Views: 10655
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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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#7. To: Deckard, misterwhite, Stoner (#0)
https://www.redcatcher.org/activek/roster.asp?sSearchName=&sSort=&sLetter=&showphotos=0&filter-sUnit=2nd+Battalion+3rd+Infantry&itemstart=401&itemsperpage=20&itemsort= Redcatcher
199th Light Infantry Brigade
Viet Nam 1966-1970
199th LIB Association, Inc.
AKA Redcatcher Association
199th Infantry Brigade (Separate) (Light)
Member Directory Filtered for 199th Infantry Brigade, 3d Infantry Regiment, 2d Battalion Page 21, listing 401-420 There is no listing for Pick between Phillips and Pico. Phillips, Ron
Unit: 2nd Battalion 3rd Infantry
Company: Delta
Dates with Brigade: 06/69 to 06/70
Home Town: Detroit, Mi Pico, Pasquale
Unit: 2nd Battalion 3rd Infantry
Company: A
Dates with Brigade: 11/66 to 10/67
Home Town: Phila. Pa. - - - - - - - - - - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfred-pick-7709841 Honors & Awards Air Medal
US Army
March 1969 Awarded for over 100 aerial combat assaults and direction of numerous aerial attacks on enemy positions. Shot down during combat operations. - - - - - - - - - - Silver Star Medal
US Army
May 1968 On May 19, 1968, 19 year old Second Lieutenant Alfred Pick assigned as Forward Observer attached to infantry company with 199th Light Infantry Brigade assumed command when commanding officer and all other infantry officers KIA during night attack by superior North Vietnamese force. Perimeter breached; attacking enemy force repelled and defeated. Leadership and inspiration of Lt. Pick credited with repelling attack and defeating enemy force. Lt. Pick awarded Silver Star Medal for "brave and valorous actions...in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service..." LinkedIn is not an official source. It is an individual's brag sheet.
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