Patrick Tate Adamiak

Granted

Sep 3, 2026

Convicted of

Unregistered machine guns and destructive devices

Sentence

240 mo

Source

militarytimes.com ↗

Notability

Former Navy master-at-arms (E-6); convicted by a federal jury in 2022 of receiving, possessing and transferring unregistered machine guns and destructive devices; sentenced to 20 years

Why / who lobbied

Gun-rights groups campaigned for the pardon; Lee Williams, who heads a Second Amendment Foundation-funded journalism project, wrote more than 60 articles arguing he was wrongfully prosecuted.

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