![]() ![]() The decision to charge Hoover enflamed gun-rights supporters who by Monday had contributed about $110,000 through 2,700 donations to a GoFundMe page created to cover Hoover’s legal costs. The indictment identifies Hoover as operating Coloma Resale, a store which is a federally licensed firearms dealer, but in court attorneys said much of Hoover's income comes from his YouTube postings. Attorney Laura Cofer Taylor told a judge in Milwaukee Friday. Hoover for the advertisements," Jacksonville-based Executive Assistant U.S. ![]() The indictment lists 10 dates between November 2020 and February 2021 when, it says, Hoover promoted Ervin’s product in videos and referred to as the videos' sponsor. The 17-count indictment says Ervin’s sales took off because of publicity he received from Hoover, 38, who regularly posts videos on a YouTube channel about guns and shooting that this month counted 134,000 subscribers. The list of charges from a federal grand jury in Jacksonville replaces one filed last spring against Ervin alone, detailing new claims from investigators’ probe of his online sale of credit card-sized metal strips under the product name Auto Key Card. Hoover of Coloma, Wisconsin, of conspiring to illegally distribute unregistered conversion equipment, which the indictment equates with distributing machine guns. Prosecutors who last year charged a Clay County man with selling illegal machine-gun conversion devices are now also going to court against a Wisconsin gun dealer who raised money for his defense.Ī new federal indictment accuses Kristopher “Justin” Ervin of Orange Park and Matthew R.
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