Tate has never been in any trouble with the law prior to his arrest.

Not a single charged item seized from Tate's collection was functional or shootable.

Senior ATF Special Agent (Ret.) and President of International Firearm Specialist Academy Inc., Daniel G. O'Kelly, has examined each item Tate is in prison for and has concluded that not a single article qualifies as a firearm under any federal law.

Tate received no warning from the ATF that their new unpublished, unpromulgated internal policy would turn his hobby into a life-ruining crime overnight.

The exact items Tate is convicted for possessing are still openly being marketed and sold daily. The ATF is aware of this and no action has been taken.

Tate was discharged from the U.S. Navy due to these charges with FULL HONORS after a thorough hearing, despite an overzealous prosecutor's repeated attempts to taint his discharge board to give him a dishonorable discharge.

The prosecutor used Tate's military experience and training against him to sustain a conviction.

Tate was not being investigated until a paid ATF criminal informant (with over 20 felony gun convictions) attempted to entrap Tate to get himself out of pending new charges. The informant reported seeing a machine-gun in Tate's garage, which turned out to be an air-powered replica.