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Here is the thing.
Most stings are not by LEOs - they are by informants.
Just because you know someone doesn't mean they are not an informant now. Most informants cooperate with LEOs because they either want the money or they got caught doing something and the justice system has offered them a reduced sentence if they inform on someone else - someone they probably know.
How many people do you completely trust SO much that you KNOW they would never rat you out even if faced with a 30 year prison in a federal pound me in the a** prison?
My answer is very few and I think that most people, if they were smart and honest with themselves, would say the same thing.
About 12 years ago I was at a gun show in Puyallup. I got t talking to a guy I had known for years who was running a table. He asked me if I was interested in an AK? He pulled a Galil out from under the counter. Took about 3 seconds to realize it was a full auto AK straight from the IDF. I picked it up and set it back down and grabbed a rag and wiped my prints off it and told him never to to pull that thing out in public . I never talked to that guy again. A few weeks later a mutual acquaintance was arrested for MG charges. He just finished a 8 year prison term a couple of years ago. I have no doubt that guy in Puyallup was working as a CI to save his skin and I distanced myself from that crowd ASAP. Be careful. They are out there.