![]() Hoover had no reason to believe, at any point, that he would be engaging in criminal conduct if - as alleged - he entered into an agreement with a tchotchke salesman to discuss stainless steel cards with a design on them on his YouTube channel.” This graphic appeared on a website federal agents said Kristopher Ervin used to sell card-shaped strips of metal laser-etched with a design that could convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun. “The NFA is designed to go after ‘crime weapons,’ not tchotchkes,” Zermay argued last year, after Hoover was charged with conspiring with Ervin by advertising the items on segments that Ervin sponsored. Whether Ervin, who formed an LLC called Free Speech Industries, was selling trinkets or gun parts is a critical question because federal law treats machine gun conversion devices as being equivalent to machine guns themselves.ĭefense lawyers have said Ervin was selling nicknacks that the National Firearms Act never envisioned. But he said Hoover wasn’t marketing machine guns, just using his channel to help in “selling a design that essentially upset the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.” ![]() “He’s a political provocateur,” attorney Zachary Zermay said of his client Hoover, a Wisconsin-based gun dealer who operates a YouTube channel with 179,000 subscribers. ![]() Ervin's AutoKe圜ard in a popular YouTube channel, was indicted last year with Ervin on gun and conspiracy charges. Matthew Hoover, a Wisconsin gun dealer who talked about Orange Park resident Kristopher J.
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