This the summary of a couple of email from someone:
As United States Attorney, when Brownlee had the chance to show his true colors, his office prosecuted Ronald Blair Testerman, Sr. for engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license because he sold a .38-caliber pistol and three .22 caliber pistols. What makes this prosecution so unconscionable is that Testerman was 77 years old; at age of 18, he had enlisted in the United States Army and was honorably discharged after World War II; he worked at a construction company for 44 years; he had never been involved in the criminal justice system; and he was active in his church.
Brownlee’s office apparently argued that Testerman should have been sentenced to a sentence within the sentencing guidelines range of 27 to 33 months, but the judge disagreed and sentenced him to three years probation, including four months of home detention and a fine of $1,000.
Brownlee is running for Attorney General, where he would enforce existing law (as he did as United States Attorney), not decide policy, so that, while he may sound good on firearms policy issues, what really matters is his record on enforcing the federal firearms laws. Based on Testerman, it seems pretty clear that gun owners could not rely on him.
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According to a press release issued by Brownlee, Testerman "sold six handguns in less than three months" and "had made business cards and ordered numerous handguns through wholesalers for the purpose of resale."
Of course, Brownlee does not state how it was known that Testerman ordered the handguns "for the purpose of resale" (the court opinion stated only that "he had used a friend's federal firearms license number to purchase guns directly from wholesalers"), which is critical since, to be guilty of engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, a person must "repetitive[ly] purchase and res[ell] firearms" with "the principle objective of livelihood and profit."
Also, Bownlee does not mention that the jury acquitted Testerman of four counts of selling a firearm to a resident of another state, so it appears that the jury reached a compromise verdict so that the Government got something for its efforts.
[The] concern is that, rather than sending in undercover ATF agents to make buys from people like Testerman (who probably did not even know what he was doing was possibly illegal) and then prosecuting, if Brownlee was really pro-Second Amendment, he would have had a policy that the ATF would inform people like Testerman that ATF believed that they were acting unlawfully, and only prosecuting if the activity continued.
