by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2025 Real World News
The Biden-Harris ATF has yet to explain why on Nov. 21, 2024 it launched an early-morning raid on the Maryland home of gun collector and Second Amendment activist Mark “Choppa” Manley.
Heavily-armed agents left the home in shambles and terrorized Manley, his wife and children, the NRA Institute for Legislative Action reported on Jan. 6.
In an interview with investigative journalist Lee Williams, Manley, an intervention specialist for his local public school district, said he and his wife, also a school teacher, awoke early on Nov. 21. Manley’s wife went to the kitchen shortly after 4 a.m. to make coffee and noticed people moving toward the home, leading her to shout a warning to her husband.
Manley said he looked out of the window and saw agents with long guns converging on the home in a tactical formation. Security cameras showed a similar scene at the rear of the house.
Manley was able to awaken his two daughters (aged 17 and 13), but his 15-year-old son remained in his basement bedroom.
Manley said: “I looked out the window again and could tell they were going to bust down our door. … I yelled ‘Hello! We are up here.’ All of a sudden, a bomb went off. My wife screamed. She followed right behind me on our way out, but she was disoriented. She was in pure shock.”
Security camera footage showed the couple and their daughters, still in their bedclothes, walk out the front door into the 20 degree morning air with their hands above their heads. The agents kept their rifles trained on the unarmed family members at point blank distances.
Manley sand he and his 17-year-old daughter were handcuffed, and his wife and children were placed in the back of a police van in the freezing cold.
The agents then turned their attention to Manley’s 15-year-old son, who was still in his bedroom. Manley told Williams that agents deployed a flashbang grenade, and 14 of them rushed the boy with their guns drawn, breaking through the glass door to his room and threatening to shoot him. The agents emerged with his son some 30 minutes later.
The family was brought back inside while agents and K9s ransacked the home for hours. Manley recounted to Williams that the police dogs “defecated everywhere, even on my daughter’s bed.”
Manley said agents also threatened to blow up his locked gun safe, but he voluntarily opened it for them.
Describing the moment to Williams, Manley said: “They were all standing around waiting and hoping … This was their moment, they thought. They started pulling out rifles and shotguns, but everything was registered and Maryland-compliant. ‘We got nothing here,’ one of them said.”
All of Manley’s 70 plus firearms were compliant with federal law and the strict firearms laws of Maryland.
No arrests were made and no firearms or ammunition were seized. The only item taken was Manley’s cell phone.
The family’s home, however, was left in a shambles: front and rear doors shattered, windows broken, floors ruined from flashbang grenades, and dog excrement the family was left to clean up themselves.
According to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action’s report, Manley’s wife said the search warrant indicated her husband was a felon in possession of firearms.
Manley, however, said he does not have a felony record, he does not sell guns, he does not have any machine guns, and he is still in the dark as to why he was targeted.
“To this day we just don’t know,” he told Williams.
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