Hopewell or Chief thunder?
Name popped up a couple of times on another forum said Hopewell moved here and..............
Chief Thunder (Keith Baranski) did get out and and showed up on Gunsnet.net. He first went under the handle "Hopewell" and after support of the forum reverted back to his orginal handle
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iirc, chief thunder was a vendor of some sort that screwed lots of ppl over. iirc, sold lots of stuff cheap for a while, but then just disappeared and left with a lot of unfulfilled orders/. i could be wrong though.
Don't know of a Hopewell, Chief Thunder you already know the answer to what his real life name is. Aside from that I don't understand your post. I personally do not remember him ever coming back here after his jail time was over.
Do you have him confused with Informer from the old site ?
Can't remember either one of them.....................
Dan
As I recall Informer, Gary Guccioni was the "gunsmith" that took all those conversions in and never completed them. He as big on converting the Hungarian SA-2000M from single stack to double stack. A couple of members actually got a well done conversion back though I think it came out later he was actually farming out most of the work. Did my own conversion in about an hour so glad I never sent him anything. Customers ended up going to the Kansas City DA and filing charges. Some got back their rifles intact, some got back parts of rifles, some got nothing. Chief Thunder as my memory serves didn't screw anyone out of anything but did go to prison over some B.S. his business partner caused and I believe he did post on the old board after his release.
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Diesel and LAGC are the only members who did time and then returned to posting here, that I can recall.
I was one of the unlucky ones on that Gary Guccioni fiasco! Never got my Sile import folder back! Errrrrrr! The Chief had great deals back then and did meet him at one of those shoots in Ohio.Originally Posted by Richard Simmons
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That's pretty much as I recall it also.
Eta...wasn't it something about importing something without the proper paperwork and Customs busted him.
Last edited by N/A; 05-13-2015 at 09:48 AM.
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With Chief Thunder I believe that's what happened. His partner and maybe he as well were importing FA stuff under bogus LEO requests for demos or something like that. For some reason I came away thinking he was more a victim of his partner than a co-conspirator but that may not be the case.
http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions...5a0130p-06.pdf
Evidently his partner was a convicted felon.
Last edited by Richard Simmons; 05-13-2015 at 10:15 AM.
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Chief Thunder got a bad rap IMO. I never had a problem with him, I bought some mags IIRC. He got fucked by the ATF and his partner.
that sounds about right about chif thunder, like i said, i wasnt sure. i joined this site right around the time the shit was hitting the fan for him (cheif thunder) and never actually interacted with him, but YES, he did come back to the site "after" (after prison time???) and made a post of 2 but not much, then disappeared.
That's about my take on it. Purchased Bulgarian waffle pattern 7.62 mags as well as the waffle pattern 5.56 mags and Bulgarian smooth sided mags from him. All were new and none more than 9 or 10 bucks each. He was cutting the balls off of KVAR that was getting 39 bucks a crack for such magazines. Damn shame he was smashed by BATFE.
Last edited by Schuetzenman; 05-14-2015 at 05:51 AM.
Just asking. his name came up on another forum and I should have made it clear that the 3rd line of my thread was copied
from the akfiles thread I was reading.
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I am constantly being told to be quiet.
In a world of snowflakes,
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The thread was about those Bulgy Circle 10 waffle mags. The ones that were different colours, white, clear and a few other colours, and how much they are bringing.
Some were saying that K-Var may have this and may have that because he was selling them so cheap, 10 for a 100$. Sometimes 8 or 9 apiece.
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I am constantly being told to be quiet.
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