Perhaps it has not hit the information superhighway just yet since the court hearing just happened... I dunno... but here is what I foundbaldeagle wrote:Not to rain on anyone's parade, but a search of court cases for the Texas Western District Federal court for Copeland and ATF or just Copeland returns zero results. I also can't find a single legitimate news outlet that reported the story, including the Austin Statesman. A search for ATF at the District Court site returns numerous hits, most recently a case dated 3/11/2010 and styled PETER MORALES vs. LT. MARTIN. I'm thinking this story is either bogus or a lot of the details are wrong.
EDIT: There's also are no press releases in 2010 matching the details of this supposed case. There is also only one press release in 2009 that matches in very broad detail, the description of this case. Without something more definitive than blog posts and a radio station story, I'd say this story is bogus.
EDIT2: There's also no press release on the ATF site, and there are zero hits using the advanced search feature to find mentions of "Paul Copeland".
As posted in the TSRA WEBSITE
https://www.tsra.com/index.php?option=c ... Itemid=113" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
As posted on an Austin Talk Radio website:
http://www.590klbj.com/News/Story.aspx?id=1272077" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;