I remember when the "door to door" confiscations of the Mak barrels was taking place; guess they didn't get their man. So know they're offering a $1,000,000 reward!?!?! Gee, that makes me feel special (if it was you, I or jsut your average taxpayer who was shot do you think this sort of money would be paid out?).
The oher thing that bugs me is that they seem to be pointing the finger at someone who was pissed because the DA was an "anti-gun" activist.
SEATTLE -- The FBI has taken out an ad in Gun News magazine hoping to generate tips that could help solve the murder of Thomas Crane Wales, a federal prosecutor shot to death in his basement nearly three years ago.
The two-page advertisement asks readers who know anyone with an "after-market" barrel for a Makarov semi-automatic pistol to call the agency. It describes the barrels, manufactured by Federal Arms Corp., as being made of stainless steel and having six lands and grooves. Original barrels for the pistols are made of blued steel with four lands and grooves.
The ad's other page offers a $1 million reward for information that helps solve the case. It describes Wales, 49 and a father of two, as an assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle for 18 years who specialized in prosecuting white-collar crime.
Wales, also an anti-gun activist, was killed as he worked at his computer the night of Oct. 11, 2001. The gunman fired several shots through the basement window.
At one point in the investigation, a federal grand jury in Seattle subpoenaed Federal Arms Corp., of Fridley, Minn., to provide the names of customers and gun dealers who purchased replacement Makarov barrels before Wales' death.
The company complied, and FBI field offices around the country began contacting people who bought the 3,500 barrels. They hope to turn up one that matches ballistics markings on shell casings found outside Wales' basement window, where the fatal shots were fired.
The FBI has investigated Wales' involvement with the gun control group Washington Cease Fire as well as his personal and professional lives. The only publicly identified suspect so far is a former airline pilot who lives in Bellevue.
The pilot, a man in his 40s, was indicted by Wales in 2000 in a fraud case involving the renovation of a Vietnam-era military helicopter for civilian use. The following year, charges against the pilot and his business partners were dropped, and the company pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
The pilot, an avid gun owner, sued the government for malicious prosecution, seeking recovery of more than $125,000 in payments to lawyers, but the lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge.
The FBI first searched the pilot's home in December 2001. In April they searched it again, seizing 27 boxes of goods, and removed a bullet from the wall of an apartment in Bellingham where the pilot used to live.
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