Richard White Piquette admitted in a document filed in federal court last week that he manufactured a Noveske Rifleworks N-4 .223-caliber rifle with an eight-inch barrel. Under federal law, the rifle’s barrel length should have been at least 16 inches, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
So what?
Mr. Piquette is a deputy with the LA County Sheriff’s Office.
Mr. Piquette also has admitted to possessing a shotgun “that had been stolen from the Sheriff’s Department” and “three assault weapons that are banned under California law”.
“A lot of these criminals are carrying these types of weapons on the street,” [Ronald] Hedding [Piquette’s lawyer] said, adding that Piquette was a jail deputy but had done training stints on patrol.
Really? There’s a lot of short barreled ARs on the streets of LA? I’d love to see some evidence of that.
Hedding said he believed it was common practice for sheriff’s deputies to have weapons like the ones his client possessed.
Then again, given that this is the “first plea agreement by one of 20 sheriff’s officials charged or indicted since December”, Hedding may be right, and the “criminals” who are carrying these types of weapons on the street work for the LA County Sheriff.
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