U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff declared a mistrial in the case of Hatchet M. Speed.
But Speed faced a much longer prison term in Virginia — a maximum of 30 years — had the jury convicted him of owning three unregistered silencers. Under federal law, any device or part intended to reduce the sound of gunfire meets the definition of a silencer and must be registered with federal officials as if it were a firearm.
Speed said he wanted to kidnap Jewish people in the Washington region and subject them to violence, according to a transcript of one meeting in April. “People who don’t have bodyguards, people who don’t have intel organizations helping them out,” the document quotes Speed as saying.“You think at that point your, uh, your solvent traps would come in handy?” the undercover agent asked Speed, according to the transcript.
“Why would they remain untouched and unmodified for 15 months?” public defender Courtney Dixon said during her closing argument. Speed was a “gun enthusiast” who was stocking up on scarce items during theThe ATF expert also testified that the titanium and aluminum devices were silencers and not solvent traps because they contained common silencer features such as expansion chambers, bafflers and spacers.
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