An Iowa police chief who's accused of requesting around 90 firearms for his three-person police department was charged with fraud after allegedly reselling them for profit.
Federal laws generally prohibit the sale, transfer and possession of machine guns manufactured after 1986 — with the exception of those sold to law enforcement agencies for official use. Certain licensed dealers may, with a letter of request from a law enforcement agency, acquire machine guns solely to provide a weapons demonstration to those agencies.
BW Outfitters did not immediately respond to a request for comment. State records still list Wendt as the registered agent of the business. In January 2021, Wendt signed a demonstration request for a .50-caliber machine gun for “special operations and high-risk prisoner transportation details” — despite Adair police not conducting such operations — that allowed a Las Vegas-based dealer to acquire the machine gun, the indictment alleges.
Not all of Wendt’s requests were approved. In November 2020 and January 2021, he allegedly sought permission to purchase a minigun, a powerful six-barreled gun typically mounted on military helicopters that fires 3,000 rounds per minute, according to the indictment.
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