http://gunssavelives.net/blog/40-atf-agents-raid-home-of-youtube-gun-personality-fpsrussia/#
They were there looking for “explosives”, not firearms, apparently.
Yeahhhhh righttttt… :rolleyes:
I have little doubt this is tied to the murder investigation.
You mean they couldn’t find anything more retarded to waste tax payer money on? Ridiculous.
40 agents!
So if you have a warrant for explosives are you allowed to photograph anything you want? Can you take other evidence such as DNA or whatever they night want? I would expect his property is under electronic surveillance now as well
If they needed 40 agents doesn’t that kinda suggest maybe 35 of them don’t know what they are doing and probably should be in training? Or, they are up to something else.
This country is going downhill fast. Never thought I would see this in the USA. I mean if he killed his partner then I hope he get’s caught but this just looks really wrong.
Welcome to Amerika.
This is becoming common practice. Happened to Gibson Guitars. There was a documentary posted here about this, and the employees of the company spotlighted were denied their attorneys and their rights through intimidation.
I can understand high risk warrants, and maybe (with a grain of salt)FPSRussian might (with a grain of salt) needed that done to them.
Also to point out, all the people they need to box, tag and load seized documentations.
Warrants are seldom limited to just one item when searching a structure. They’ll be looking for documentation, receipts, email/communications just to name a few.
And yes they can photograph everything they can see.
The. Number of agents is not surprising. You’ll have the primary investigators. Trained evidence collection types (with specialties within that group). And you’ll need other eyes to do A secondary search. Size of the property and scope of the evidence sought also figures in.
Sounds like a fishing expedition to me. A way of sending a chilling message to gun enthusiasts. Hopefully we’ll see some more information, but this kinda seems like a politically motivated thing to me.
The items to be seized attachment to a search warrant is never sealed. I doubt that they received sealing of the affidavit, also attached to the warrant, all of which was left at the premises at the completion of the search. Those at the premises could easily post it on the web should they desire, as it states exactly, and in extreme detail what the ATF was looking for.
As for the question about photos, pre and post search condition of the premises are routinely photographed and sometimes videotaped, and they can pretty much document the search through photography in as much detail (as many photos) as those conducting the search want to. Remember, when a search warrant is executed the “subject premises” are seized. They no longer belong to the owner/occupant and are under the control of those executing the warrant. If it’s your house and you want to leave during the search, go ahead, you won’t be let in. Your lawyer won’t be let in (he/she has NO legal standing), you will not be permitted to wander about if you stay, and will be confined to a room, or area as not to interfere until the search is completed and you are provided an inventory.
Really? Let’s see, a couple of guys like playing with guns and explosives and recording their escapades on YouTube. Then, one of the guys was found murdered in his office 2 months ago. I can’t imagine why the authorities would be involved. 
Well, point taken. I don’t have any information that’s not in this thread. My feeling is based on the notion that FPS has likely been responsible for a LOT of the “Call of Duty” crowd’s first actual firearm purchases. He’s a modern icon with one of the world’s most popular YT channels. His schtick is making guns seem cool to younger people, and it’s apparently working. There’s no doubt that a lot of kids are emulating what they see in his videos, and are buying their first gun because of them too. There’s a few valid reasons that they would want to make an example of him.
That said, I don’t disagree completely with what you wrote. I’m just stating a thought that occurred to me, since this is the GD forum and I had a few minutes. I’m no LEO, and I haven’t even seen all the guy’s videos. Nor have I researched the details of his colleagues demise. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the case.
I’ve never seen an instance where ATF has gotten this far up someone’s ass when they didn’t have it coming.
2 examples where people were all up in arms and completely WRONG in the end…
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That retard in Wisconsin who put an A2 FCD in his piece of shit OLY and got nailed… and
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The Cavarms raid.
Everyone was all up in arms about how ATF was picking on Cavarms. Fools even donated money to their defense fund. They were in the wrong, and fortunately the principal avoided any prison time.
I’m still wanting to know what this ‘evidence’ was that they used to secure a search warrant. People wonder why the approval rating of LE by the general public continues to fall and then something like this happens. Again.
Yeah… I read another article on this raid and it sounds like they just raided the property because this guy used tannerite in videos…
No sure what the murder side of this is, but it doesn’t appear to be related.
It’s because of his supposed overuse (too much at once) of tannerite.
I feel safer already.
Randy Weaver comes to mind.
Oh, SNAP! (good one)
That’s true.
