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Shreveport man sentenced for lying on ATF form to buy firearm

United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Thomas Ray Beaird, 41, of Shreveport, was sentenced Thursday to 12 months and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for attempting to purchase a firearm from a pawn shop. He was also sentenced to one year of supervised release.

https://www.kalb.com/content/news/S...ing-on-ATF-form-to-buy-firearm-509228741.html




Leland man sentenced for lying on gun application


RALEIGH -- A Leland man will serve over a year in prison for lying about his mental health history on an application to buy a gun.

Howard Joseph Burchfield, 36, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison and three years' supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Burchfield had pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to a licensed firearm dealer on Oct. 18.

https://www.starnewsonline.com/stor...nced-for-lying-on-gun-application/6060265007/

Here are excerpts from your two sources. Looks like there was just a little more to the stories than merely lying once on the form.

Beaird marked on the form that he was not subject to a court order restraining him from harassing, stalking or threatening a child or an intimate partner or child of such partner. Beaird was arrested on June 20, 2018, for second-degree kidnapping of his wife. A Caddo Parish juvenile court judge also granted a protective order against Beaird on behalf of his juvenile children on June 21, 2018. Personal service of the protective order was made at the Caddo Correctional Center on June 26, 2018.

An investigation by authorities found that Burchfield was not legally allowed to purchase a gun, because on July 13, 2010, a judge in Escambia County, Florida, ordered that he be involuntarily committed to a mental institution for a period of up to six months due to mental illness and threats of harm to others. On Feb. 5, 2013, the 17th District Court in Brighton, Colorado, also adjudicated Burchfield as mentally defective, the release states.

The release states that Burchfield tried to illegally buy five guns between 2015 and 2018.
 
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