Seattle judge sentences former neo-Nazi to 8 years on gun charges

[Ian David]

SEATTLE A U.S. District Court judge in Seattle has sentenced 66-year-old former neo-Nazi Keith D. Gilbert to eight years in prison following his conviction on gun charges.

Gilbert served as an aide to late Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler. He was arrested in February 2005 after he sold weapons to a police informant. A search of his Seattle home turned up 74 firearms, including some fully automatic machine guns. As a felon, Gilbert was not allowed to possess them.

After a four-day trial in September, Gilbert was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture unregistered firearms, being a felon in possession of firearms, possessing a machine gun and possessing unregistered firearms.

In the 1960s, Gilbert served several years in prison in California after he was arrested in Los Angeles with 1,400 pounds of stolen dynamite, which authorities believed was part of a plot to kill the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.

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[jody]

1. Gilbert's a convicted felon with prior prison time and he only gets 8 years from a federal judge.

Such leniency is why those of us who support the 2004 Democratic Party Platform "We will protect Americans' Second Amendment right to own firearms" persistently insist that congress, the president, and Supreme Court must first aggressively enforce existing laws before going on a witch hunt to ban handguns or all guns.

See http://www.democrats.org/pdfs/2004platform.pdf

[baldguy]

2. "former" neo-Nazi?

[benEzra]

3. How'd he get only 8 years?

Possession of an automatic weapon alone is a 10-year felony.

[qdemn7]

4. Just more evidence

Of lax or incomplete enforcement of existing Gun Laws.