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Got us a police chief. Got us a police chief who hasn’t got his head right. Got us a Chief Bradley Wendt of the thriving metropolis of Adair, Iowa. Got us a police chief buying legitimate full-auto weapons for his department. Got us a department of three whole cops, for whom he bought 90 machine guns. Now THERE is where you just don’t mess with the po-po.<\/p>\n
According to court filings and a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office<\/a>, Wendt used his position as police chief to obtain 10 machine guns for the official use of the police department, but later resold at least six of those weapons for “significant profit.”<\/p>\n
In addition, Wendt obtained 13 guns for his Dennison- and Anita-based gun store, BW Outfitters, under the pretense they were to be used as demonstration models for potential future purchases by the department. Another 10 weapons were obtained in the same manner for Williams Contracting, a business Williams owned that is federally licensed as a firearms dealer.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say Wendt sought to purchase or demonstrate approximately 90 machine guns between July 2018 and August 2022. Some of the weapons were used for public machine gun shoots, where Wendt and Williams charged customers money to be able to fire the weapons.<\/p>\n
The indictment describes the firearms as fully automatic weapons not legally available to the public, including an M60 machine gun…for the Adair Police Department.<\/p>\n
Wendt instead had the M60 mounted on his personally owned armored Humvee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n