Grand Prairie man who urged killing Blacks and Jews is charged with gun crime

An alleged white nationalist and self-described “radical Jew slayer” who encouraged others to kill Jews and Blacks has been charged in federal court with illegally selling a gun to a felon, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Christian Michael Mackey, 20, was charged with unlawful sale of a firearm, according to a criminal complaint.

FBI agents arrested him at a parking lot near his Grand Prairie home on Friday evening, authorities said. He made his initial appearance in federal court on Monday, and prosecutors have filed a motion to detain him until trial.

He faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted. An attorney for Mackey could not be reached.

Mackey regularly posted in online chats organized by the Iron Youth, a Neo-Nazi and white nationalist group dedicated to National Socialism and political terror, authorities said. The group pushes a “siege” ideology that calls for antigovernment terrorist attacks as a way to instigate a race war.

Mackey allegedly said on Instagram that he liked “control and killing” and vowed to die attacking the system. He also urged fellow group members to kill Jews and Blacks, authorities said.

Mackey met with an undercover FBI agent in December to discuss selling his rifle so he could buy another firearm, the complaint said. He said that another Iron Youth member had recommended an untraceable “ghost-gun,” a homemade pistol without a serial number, according to the FBI.

The agent helped arrange a sale and warned Mackey that the buyer was a felon. Mackey said he didn’t care who bought it, and on Jan. 29 he sold his AM-15 to a FBI source with felony convictions for $800 at a Grand Prairie parking lot, authorities said.

Mackey asked the buyer if she was “based,” a term used to describe someone who embraces white supremacist ideology, the complaint says.

“This defendant’s indiscriminate sale of an AM-15 to a convicted felon could have put lives at risk, had the buyer not turned the gun over to the FBI,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah, in a statement. “Although adherence to a repugnant ideology is not a crime in and of itself, unlawful sale is, and we are determined to hold Mr. Mackey accountable.”

Mackey incited others in the Iron Youth group to violence, the complaint said. In a July 2019 Instagram group chat, one user expressed a desire to train for a “devastating” attack on the system and to die an “infamous historical figure,” according to the FBI.

Mackey responded by saying, “Yea I’m just trying to live long enough to die attacking the system,” the complaint says. He said if the group keeps pushing for training and “off the grid activities,” they could recruit enough members to “cause a collapse,” authorities said.

He also wrote in the Instagram chat group in August 2019 that he’d been looking at Nazi websites since 2016 and grew up antigovernment like his father, the FBI says.

“The FBI’s investigative focus is on criminal activity, regardless of group affiliation,” Matthew J. DeSarno, who heads the Dallas FBI office, said in a statement.