WorldNetDaily has a problem with telling its readers the full truth, especially in gun related cases. A June 2 WND article repeats this pattern by once again refusing to tell the full truth about the case of a man convicted for loaning out a fully automatic machine gun.
As it has before, WND tells only the man’s story as promoted by his defense attorneys — that the man, David Olofson, merely “loaned out” a “broken rifle” that “malfunctioned” — but obscuring the evidence against him that led to his conviction.
As we’ve noted, Olofson has been described as having “considerable knowledge of weapons, considerable knowledge of machine guns,” and thus knew or should have known that the gun fired automatically. Olofson also has previous gun-related convictions and has been reprimanded for corrupting Army computers and perhaps providing militia groups access to sensitive information, and a search of his home turned up books on converting rifles to fully automatic.
Further, Olofson has had contact with vigilante groups and professed to be part of the sovereign movement, which doesn’t acknowledge federal laws as applying to them — not unlike Scott Roeder, the man suspected of killing abortion doctor George Tiller.