RICHMOND, Va. (CN) —A Fourth Circuit panel heard from an insurrectionist on Friday who claimed a jury wrongfully convicted him of unlawfully possessing firearm silencers, which he argued were simply solvent traps.
Hatchet Speed, a Navy veteran and Proud Boys member, a far-right extremist group, is seeking a retrial after a Virginia jury convicted him of unlawfully possessing unregistered firearm silencers. The devices were three solvent traps, tools intended to catch solvent residue, which Speed told an undercover FBI informant could be converted into silencers by drilling holes in them.
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