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Title: Decorated Silver Star Veteran, POW Sentenced to 7 Years for a Gun He Bought 40 Years Ago
Source: Free Thought Project
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
Keywords: None
Views: 7659
Comments: 45

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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#8. To: Deckard, misterwhite, Stoner (#0)

http://www.dpaa.mil/Our-Missing/Vietnam-War/Vietnam-War-POW-MIA-List/

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise

http://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_p_name_20181019.pdf

U.S. Accounted-For from the Vietnam War
Prisoners of War, Escapees, Returnees and Remains Recovered
Sorted by Name
Total Accounted: 1,843

No Alfred Pick, or anyone named Pick, is listed. DPAA is an official military source.

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#10. To: nolu chan (#8)

No Alfred Pick, or anyone named Pick, is listed. DPAA is an official military source.

I appreciate your due diligence.

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#14. To: Fred Mertz, misterwhite, Boris Y, GrandIsland (#10)

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/guns/2018/10/17/american-hero-plano-sentenced-7-years-decades-old-rifle-purchase

Decorated Vietnam vet had drugs, 14 guns when his family led ATF to his Plano [UPDATE]

Marc Ramirez
Breaking News Reporter
dallasnews.com

Updated at 7:15 p.m. Friday with comments from the veteran's daughter and the U.S. attorney's office.

A gun collector and decorated Vietnam veteran from Plano was hailed as an "American hero" by some — before his private arsenal and an illegal drug habit landed him in prison last week.

Federal authorities and Alfred Pick's daughter portrayed the 70-year-old retired Army lieutenant as a mentally unstable addict who ultimately led those closest to him to fear for his and their own safety.

"I didn't want to be the person who knew he was a danger and didn't do anything," said Pick's daughter, Amber Zable, who reported him to federal authorities. "I felt really conflicted about basically betraying my dad, but this person was a danger and a menace."

A year after federal agents raided Pick's home, U.S. Attorney Joseph Brown announced that a federal judge had slapped the decorated Vietnam veteran with a seven-year sentence for owning a firearm while illegally using controlled substances.

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also found Pick to be in possession of cocaine and marijuana, according to his indictment. He pleaded guilty to the charge in April in a deal with federal prosecutors.

[...]

Pick's daughter told The Dallas Morning News that her father's mental health had increasingly deteriorated as he cared for her terminally ill stepmother, who she said suffered from a rare, degenerative neurological disease.

"He started to become hopeless and frustrated," Zable said. "Being the primary caregiver for someone who is not going to get better is very emotionally, physically, mentally and financially taxing. It really started to wear on him."

Her father's longtime drug use, she said, became even more problematic.

After her stepmother died, Zable and her husband began going through her father's property as they tried to sort out the deceased woman's affairs, and they were alarmed by the amount of drugs and weapons in the home. That's when they decided to call federal authorities.

The ATF found more than 2 grams of cocaine, more than 10 grams of marijuana and 14 firearms at Pick's home, including the one with the obliterated serial number.

Prosecutors also informed the court that Pick had been repeatedly cited for criminal trespass at area hospitals for his aggressive behavior and that police had twice been called in 2014 to defuse situations in which Pick had brandished handguns and threatened others.

In exchange for Pick's guilty plea to the charge for which he was convicted, two other charges were dismissed: possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

"Obviously, there was a lot more to the sentence that was received — a sentence that Mr. Pick and his lawyer agreed to — than a single gun with a missing serial number," said Brown, the U.S. attorney. "Although Mr. Pick was a decorated veteran, he would use that status routinely to try to excuse his repeated criminal behavior. This was also not a mental health issue. It became a public safety issue."

CORRECTION, 6:45 p.m. Oct. 19, 2018: A previous version of this story did not clarify that Alfred Pick was convicted for possessing a firearm while using illegal drugs. It also mistakenly said he lost his wife to cancer. She died from a neurological disease.

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