CeaseFireMD Deception #2

CeaseFireMD Deception #2

Miller’s and Delity’s Changing Stories

Phil Lee, 9/27/04 (Rev. 9/18/10)

Bryan Miller in a letter to the editor to the Washington Post (9/27/04) claimed the handgun used by Bennie Lee Lawson to kill FBI agent Mike Miller 10 years earlier was a MAC-10. When he submitted his letter Bryan Miller was Executive Director of CeaseFirePA. He is also the brother of the victim Mike Miller and of Lisa Miller Delity, a board member of CeaseFireMD.

Sixteen months earlier (5/8/2003) CeaseFirePA’s press release (see http://www.ceasefirepa.org/pr/20030508.htm -- since the CeaseFire link no longer works, we refer to the web archive or our copy), quoted him identifying the gun used was a TEC-9 handgun. He repeated the TEC-9 claim a few days later on 5/22/2003 in a Freedom States Alliance press release (link to that release was http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/alerts/print/0,2060,563413,00.htmi; link no longer works so see our copy).

His sister, Lisa Miller Delity, also claimed the handgun was a TEC-9 in the June 2003 CeaseFire Maryland bulletin (http://www.ceasefiremd.org/Bulletins/June03.pdf, page 4) and in her short biography on the CeaseFire web page (CeaseFire link no longer works so we use web archive; or see our copy).

In a 9/27/2004 "Special" to The Sentinel article "It Will Be Ten Years, This Fall" (the original link http://www.thesentinel.com/284203322578879.php no longer works so see our PDF copy) Mrs. Delity claimed the handgun used was a MAC-10.

At different times and for different audiences both siblings have claimed the handgun used was a TEC-9 and both have claimed it was a MAC-10. Both claims by each sibling can’t be true so, which is false?

Well, according to BATFE Special Agent Mark Kraft ("Firearms Trafficking 101 Or Where Do Crime Guns Come From?", Project Safe Neighborhoods, January 2002, Volume 50, Number 1, pp 6-10, United States Department of Justice) both claims are false. Special Agent Kraft writes that Bennie Lee Lawson began his shooting spree with a "fully automatic MAC-11."

About 16 months apart both representatives of two branches of CeaseFire misidentified the handgun used to kill their brother almost a decade earlier. Each changed their identification at least once (a TEC-9 is not a MAC-10) and more likely each did so more than twice. More significantly they each identified semi-automatic weapons where the actual weapon used was a fully automatic machine gun and they used this killing incident to argue that semi-automatic handguns should be banned. They used deception to make their argument for banning semi-automatics.

Why do both siblings seem to have trouble getting right which gun and the type of gun used? And why do they cite their brother’s death as reason for banning semiautomatic firearms when he was killed with a "fully automatic" machine gun not covered by their proposed ban?

Bryan Miller and his sister Lisa Miller Delity have both shown they are willing to deliberately distort events and CeaseFire tolerates their distortions. This example shows a case of CeaseFire’s use of deception to make arguments it cannot otherwise justify.

Updated by Phil Lee on 9/27/10. Contact maryland_alert at yahoo dot com (sorry for being obscure, but web mail address scavenge programs make this practice necessary).