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Submitted by vasilisk 1302d ago | news

Metal Gear Solid Tech Advisor Busted By Feds for Shipping Weapons Parts

The News Tribune writes: "An Army captain who recently served as an intelligence liaison to the Japanese military has been charged with conspiring to ship holographic, night-vision-compatible firearm sights to Japan.

In a two-paragraph charging document filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, prosecutors wrote that Tomoaki Iishiba bought 60 of the EoTech 553 sights from a Northbrook, Ill., company called OpticsPlanet, then mailed them to coconspirators in Japan without obtaining an export license. The company's Web site lists the sights at $639 apiece.
He has also written a manual for the M4 rifle, has endorsed a line of knives and is credited as a technical adviser in the making of the video game Metal Gear Solid." (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, PS3)

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