President Donald Trump has pardoned a decorated Navy master at arms who spent nearly four years in federal prison for possessing items he insists were nonfunctional military collectibles, a case the National Rifle Association calls a textbook example of Biden-era ATF overreach.
Patrick Tate Adamiak walked out of prison and into a presidential pardon on September 4, one of 30 clemency grants Trump issued that day. Adamiak, a Virginia Beach resident and 11-year Navy veteran, had been convicted in federal court in 2023 and handed a 20-year sentence for possessing and selling unregistered weapons through his home-based online business, Black Dog Arsenal. He served almost four years before Trump intervened.
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