Metal Gear Solid Technical Advisor Jailed for Shady Weapons Deal
Metal Gear Solid Technical Advisor Jailed for Shady Weapons Deal
November 8, 2008
An Army captain who once served as a technical advisor to PlayStation smash Metal Gear Solid has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally exporting sophisticated weapon parts.
The Associated Press reports that Tomoaki Iishiba, 34, a Japanese man who served with the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan and is currently assigned to a military intelligence unit, was sentenced by U.S. District Court judge Marsha Pechman. Although prosecutors recommended probation, Pechman imposed the stiff sentence, saying:
[Iishiba is] a soldier who had abused his trust, using his military address to order parts and then shipping them to foreign nationals. ... The problem with putting something in the stream of commerce is you don't know where it will end up.
Iishiba, who has also written a book and endorsed a line of survival knives, was busted for sending 60 holographic night vision sights to an associate in Japan without an export license. Why, Tomoaki, why?
In court, Iishiba said he sent only accessories, not the firing parts of guns, to Japanese military and law enforcement friends "because they love freedom as much as we do." He added that most of the parts were for use in games similar to paintball...
Government lawyers wrote in court filings that Iishiba did not "intend to threaten a security or foreign policy interest of the United States."
GamePolitics previously reported on Iishiba's indictment in July.
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Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
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That's funny. I never heard of using the holographic EOTech sight for paintball. At least not the one that's NVG compatible.
Exactly... because its military hardware... but wouldn't it be cool to use that stuff for paintball? I'm sure thats what his "Associates" were thinking.
Tomoaki Iishiba: I sent the weapon sights to people that support and love freedom!
Judge: What did they do with those sights?
Tomoaki Iishiba: Played some kick ass games of paint ball. It was rad.
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Sounds like they're talking about airsofting there, noteworthy because far more realistic guns are used in the sport (I assume its played as a sport) than you tend to get from paintballing. In fact I could believe that night vision goggles might get used in a special airsofting skirmish. (This from someone whose only done one paintball game and not done any airsofting so please excuse me for factual errors that may have occured)
In America, a set of night vision goggles or a night vision scope (which could be mounted behind the EOTech sight for, kind of like that guy did in 28 weeks later) can run you 500 to 3000 dollars. The EOTech sight is more than five hundred dollars as well. So, if you're airsofting or paintballing with those two things, you're paying the cost of your 'gun' or more for optics that work only slightly better than the iron sights the weapon comes with.
Tomoaki? Tomoaki?! TOMOAKI!!!
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Could he actually be exporting things so that Japan can create a Metal Gear that can detect targets (hence the googles) and launch a massive missile filled with paintballs? O_O
You're thinking too small. He is really going to build Arsenal Gear that can detect targets and launch Metal Gear RAY's and deploy it into Manhattan in 2009.
Did I mention their primary weapons are paintball guns? I didn't think so.
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What a crock of shit. I'll send whatever NVG stuff people in Japan want to them. Fuck that crap! One year in jail for helping out law enforcment buddies.
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These are the Japanese we are talking about here, this technology is probably equivalent to what they used when Nintendo developed the Virtual Boy way back when. How is that a threat to national security?
Actually, the sights in question (EOTech 553 or 551 if I recall) are both made to work in conjunction with Night Vision. They are also some of the most cutting edge sights in the world.
Bullshit, he should get a reprimand not a prison sentence, he didn't send the parts to Al-Qaeda
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Does anyone else think that the Judge in this case is just a little bit of a wanker? I would have given him probation, to be honest.
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"He added that most of the parts were for use in games similar to paintball..."
I'm sure it was for airsoft scenario games, they would totally own during night time scenarios :) I have a few airsoft guns myself but they aren't high quality, the p90 made by firepower sucks tho, always seizing up and it is NOT easy to take apart and fix, stay away from it :/ I prefer paintball myself tho, sucks man shoulda just slapped him on the hand he didnt supply iran or anything jeez
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I think its bullshit: You don't use EOtech sights for airsoft or paintball. They're more expansive than most Airsoft and paintball guns!
You've never been painballing in the middle of nowhere, have you?
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