02-04-2018, 10:18 AM
Follow-Up to Post 1453 -- Las Vegas Massacre Person of Interest Charged
^ 55-year-old Douglas Haig of Mesa, Arizona was hit with federal firearms charges yesterday. He will appear in court again on February 15th and faces up to $250,000 in fines and 5 years in prison for selling tracer and armor-piercing ammunition, for which he did not have a license, to mass shooter Stephen Paddock.
Police found a box with Haig's name and address among Paddock's possessions early on. They also found bullets with incendiary capsules in the noses in Paddock's hotel room, some of them containing Haig's fingerprints and tool marks from his shop.
Haig held a press conference before being charged in attempt to protect his reputation. He says Paddock visited his booths at a Las Vegas and a Phoenix gun show, but he did not have the ammo Paddock wanted on-hand and Paddock later came to his home to make the purchase.
Haig claims he is sickened by what Paddock did and there's no way he could have read Paddock's mind and known what the polite and well-dressed man would do with the ammo he bought.
Well, even if what Haig claims is true, it's totally irrelevant -- he's being charged with manufacturing and/or selling ammunition without a license, not as an accomplice to mass murder.
More about the ammo and case: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/us/dougla...index.html
^ 55-year-old Douglas Haig of Mesa, Arizona was hit with federal firearms charges yesterday. He will appear in court again on February 15th and faces up to $250,000 in fines and 5 years in prison for selling tracer and armor-piercing ammunition, for which he did not have a license, to mass shooter Stephen Paddock.
Police found a box with Haig's name and address among Paddock's possessions early on. They also found bullets with incendiary capsules in the noses in Paddock's hotel room, some of them containing Haig's fingerprints and tool marks from his shop.
Haig held a press conference before being charged in attempt to protect his reputation. He says Paddock visited his booths at a Las Vegas and a Phoenix gun show, but he did not have the ammo Paddock wanted on-hand and Paddock later came to his home to make the purchase.
Haig claims he is sickened by what Paddock did and there's no way he could have read Paddock's mind and known what the polite and well-dressed man would do with the ammo he bought.
Well, even if what Haig claims is true, it's totally irrelevant -- he's being charged with manufacturing and/or selling ammunition without a license, not as an accomplice to mass murder.
More about the ammo and case: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/us/dougla...index.html