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A drill instructor in the National Guard has been convicted in a Wisconsin federal court of illegally transferring a machine gun after a rifle he loaned to a student malfunctioned, setting off three shots before jamming.

The verdict of guilty on one count in the case against David Olofson was confirmed yesterday by the clerk's office in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

That means now that anyone whose weapon malfunctions is subject to charges of having or handling a banned gun, according to an expert witness who reports that the particular problem is a well-known malfunction and was even the subject of a recall from the manufacturer.

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The mother of an 11-year-old boy abducted by SWAT team members and taken to a hospital after he was bruised while horsing around is warning members of her community of the "Nazi" tactics she endured, including a statement from the officers that her "rights" were "only in the movies."

The case involves Jon Shiflett, who injured himself while trying to grab the handle of a door on a car his sister was driving. He slipped and fell to the pavement, hitting his head. His parents treated him for the injury and rejected paramedics' demands that they be allowed to take him to a hospital.

Nearly 36 hours later, SWAT team members broke into the family home in western Colorado near New Castle and took Jon to a hospital, where a doctor said the family should keep ice on his bruise, exactly the treatment the family already had been providing.

Tina Shiflett, Jon's mother, has written a letter to the editor to a local newspaper, the Post Independent, "to awaken, alert and appall any who read it and hear the bells ringing."

"A fully armed SWAT team broke into our home, slammed my children to the floor face down with their hands behind their backs and shoved a gun in my daughter's face and handcuffed her her letter said.

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SWAT officers invade home, take 11-year-old at gunpoint
Police demand boy go to doctor because of fall during horseplay

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Posted: January 7, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh
ž© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.

The boy's parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father told WND it was all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves.

Someone, apparently the unidentified paramedic, called police, the sheriff's office and social services, eventually providing Leoniak with a report that generated the magistrate's court order to the sheriff's office for the SWAT team assault on the family's home in a mobile home development outside of Glenwood Springs, the father, Tom Shiflett, told WND.

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Comment: If the child didn't want to go, would the Officers have shot the child for his own good?

The latest call from the Loony Left and the Brady Bunch is to "get military weapons off the streets" in America. Paul Helmke of the Brady Bunch said in a recent blog post on the HuffingtonPost:

Why do we allow weapons of war on our streets which make it easier to kill more people, more quickly? This is America, not Iraq.

Often screeds like these are accompanied by phrases like, "The founding fathers never intended people to have machine guns." The implication being that the founding fathers wouldn't have agreed with military-grade weapons in the hands of the common people.

That just doesn't square with the facts. Military-grade weapons were exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. To prove it let's take a little journey back in time to the 1700's and see what the world in the Colonies looked like.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Esther Forbes described in her book Paul Revere and the World He Lived In the types of weapons the colonists had available to them:

Unlike today, the civilians were about as well armed as the professionals. The fowling piece, which men like Revere used for duck-shooting, was as good a weapon as the grenadier's musket. And the American was a much better shot. A corwainer's knife, butcher's cleaver, shipwright's adze, is not inferior to a bayonet. Many of these men, like Revere, had seen active service against the French. The rabid enthusiasts who talked about wiping out the redcoats the day they landed were not talking of an impossibility. It would be quite another thing today when the soldier has his machine guns, grenades, and aircraft and the unfortunate civilian has nothing. [Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, 1942, Houghton Mifflin, p. 140]

As a matter of fact, the civilians were extremely well armed. When General Gage was preparing Boston for a siege some of the citizens wanted to leave before the battle began.

Gage demanded all weapons to be turned over to the selectmen before anyone could leave the town. ...