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12 years after felony conviction, man convinces Deschutes judge to restore gun rights
Nakkii White was forbidden from owning guns because he got caught hacking ATMs, so he developed one of the world’s most powerful air rifles
A convicted felon from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, traveled to Bend earlier this month and convinced a Deschutes County Circuit Court judge to restore his gun rights.
But the case of Nakkii (pronounced nah-KEE-uh) White is about a lot more than guns. For one thing, he doesn’t live in Deschutes County and never has. Oregon law requires convicted felons to ask for gun rights back only in their county of residence, and White’s only local connection is a job offer from a Bend-based ammunition developer. But that offer also gave him a chance to tell the story of how he got where he is today: father of two and designer of some of the most powerful air rifles on the planet.
It was a story he’d told very few people. Even his children had never heard all of it, he said.
Today, White is 43 years old and married to Persis, his wife of 18 years. Together with his father and brother, the couple runs White’s Concessions and ATMs, which places and services ATMs around the Pacific Northwest and provides food and beverages at special events.
White’s lone criminal conviction stems from June 2006 and what he now calls “a total and complete lack of judgment on my part.”
White hacked through First National Bank’s “supposedly-secure” inner network and reprogrammed ATMs in Multnomah County to think they contained $1 bills instead of larger denominations. He then raised the dispense limits and made them think they were dispensing $1 bills instead of $50 bills.
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12 years after felony conviction, man convinces Deschutes judge to restore gun rights
Nakkii White was forbidden from owning guns because he got caught hacking ATMs, so he developed one of the world’s most powerful air rifles
A convicted felon from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, traveled to Bend earlier this month and convinced a Deschutes County Circuit Court judge to restore his gun rights.
But the case of Nakkii (pronounced nah-KEE-uh) White is about a lot more than guns. For one thing, he doesn’t live in Deschutes County and never has. Oregon law requires convicted felons to ask for gun rights back only in their county of residence, and White’s only local connection is a job offer from a Bend-based ammunition developer. But that offer also gave him a chance to tell the story of how he got where he is today: father of two and designer of some of the most powerful air rifles on the planet.
It was a story he’d told very few people. Even his children had never heard all of it, he said.
Today, White is 43 years old and married to Persis, his wife of 18 years. Together with his father and brother, the couple runs White’s Concessions and ATMs, which places and services ATMs around the Pacific Northwest and provides food and beverages at special events.
White’s lone criminal conviction stems from June 2006 and what he now calls “a total and complete lack of judgment on my part.”
White hacked through First National Bank’s “supposedly-secure” inner network and reprogrammed ATMs in Multnomah County to think they contained $1 bills instead of larger denominations. He then raised the dispense limits and made them think they were dispensing $1 bills instead of $50 bills.
More at ...
12 years after felony conviction, man convinces Deschutes judge to restore gun rights
