Small-town police chief who exploited ‘law letter’ to mount .50-cal ‘Ma Deuce’ machine gun on own Humvee is headed to prison

Bradley Wendt

Bradley Wendt used his position as a small-town Iowa police chief to buy machine guns that were actually for his personal use and to sell at his gun store (KCCI/YouTube).

A police chief of a small Iowa town will spend the next five years in prison for making false statements to authorities when he said he was going to buy machine guns for his police department when they were actually for his personal use and profit.

Bradley Eugene Wendt, 47, was found guilty in February of conspiring to make false statements and making false statements to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and illegal possession of a machine gun.

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