George Peterson

WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS

The Justice Department list records the pardon on September 3, 2026 and gives his sentencing date as January 9, 2024, with a sentence of 24 months' imprisonment and three years' supervised release. AmmoLand reported that Peterson was a federally licensed firearms dealer in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana who ran PDW Gun Solutions LLC from his Waggaman home, that a magistrate issued a search warrant in June 2022 and agents searching the home and business found a homemade, unserialized suppressor in a bedroom closet safe that was not in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and that this item, rather than the sales-reporting issues in the warrant affidavit, became the sole charge.

AmmoLand reported that Peterson entered a conditional guilty plea reserving Second and Fourth Amendment appeals, that the Fifth Circuit held suppressors are firearm accessories rather than “Arms” protected by the Second Amendment, that rehearing en banc was denied on December 9, 2025 and that the Supreme Court denied certiorari on April 20, 2026, ending the direct appeal. Former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer named Peterson among four men convicted of violating federal firearm laws in this grant. The Ledger ran all thirty names in this grant against FEC contribution records for the 2024 and 2026 cycles and found no contribution it could tie to a recipient.