Why is Patrick “Tate” Adamiak in federal prison?

According to this article ATF lied to convict sailor now serving 20 years in prison for selling legal gun parts

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and explosives (ATF) lied to get a conviction.

Patrick “Tate” Adamiak never sold a single real firearm—not one—even though he sold thousands of dollars per month of military gear and gun parts legally on his former website.

Adamiak was one of Gun Broker’s top 500 dealers, until the ATF decided to target him personally and lie under oath about the facts of his case. Now, unless someone quickly rights this unconstitutional wrong, Adamiak will be held in federal prison until 2042.

Adamiak, clearly, is the type of American most people admire.

An active duty US Navy Master-At-Arms with the rank of Petty Officer First Class when he was arrested and charged with the following,

• Counts 1 and 2 concerned the PPSh-41 receiver, which is not a firearm under current federal law.
• Counts 3 and 4 concerned his M203 and M79, which are Title 1 firearms that were legally transferred by an FFL. Neither had a 40mm barrel affixed. Adamiak had 37mm barrels for both, which are legal and not subject to National Firearms Act (NFA) regulation.
• Count 5 concerned two inert RPGs, which were missing all of the parts to make them functional and had holes drilled directly into their chambers.

He was convicted on all counts even though his expert witness, a retired ATF agent, testified that none of his possessions met any classification of a weapon.

President Trump has issued a lot of pardons since he reassumed office, I can’t understand how or why Adamiak has not been on the list.

Read the entire linked article for the details of his ordeal. There is a link to donate to his Give, Send, Go account.

I’m posting this under the Firearms and Civil Rights categories as it appears to me that Adamiak’s civil rights have been violated by the federal government that he has sworn to protect.