You would think the authorities in Texas would have more pressing issues to deal with, like that illegal alien caravan coming up from Gutatlamla. Instead, they are busy picking on a Vietnam veterans who is 70 years and just lost his wife to cancer. Alfred Pick has been jailed because of a gun he purchased in the early 1980’s. You know, back when Robert “Beto” O’Rourke was getting beat up in elementary school? I guess it’s just the sign of the times. Nearly 40 year old gun purchases can get you jailed, but left wing whack jobs stealing campaign signs and ripping them up don’t you get even a slap on the wrist in Texas.
| Vietnam veteran Alfred Pick jailed for gun purchased in 1980’s |
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“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,” Mark Shackelford, a friend, told KDFW-TV.
Shackelford called the weapon the “piece de resistance” of Pick’s collection, adding that “He had shown it to me. I’ve never seen it taken out of the case.
Ryne Sandel, Pick’s attorney, said his client had a “connection” to the rifle at the time.
Pick has accumulated dozens of weapons over the years, most of them collectibles, Sandel said.
Last year, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents looking for the rifle raided Pick’s Plano, Texas, home two weeks after his wife died of cancer and found the weapon.
“He’s had it all these years, never robbed a bank or done anything with it,” Shackleford said. “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.”