Category: gun sales

Where There’s a Will…

An illegal alien from China pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departed from the Port of Long Beach, California, and for committing this crime at the direction of North Korean government officials, who wired him approximately $2 million for his efforts… In May 2023, Wen purchased a firearms business in Houston, paid for with money sent through intermediaries by one of Wen’s North Korean contacts. Wen purchased many of the firearms he sent to North Korea in Texas and drove the firearms from Texas to California, where he arranged for them to be shipped. [More]

How did he pass NICS? How did he get an FFL? What was the name of his business? And where were all Joe Biden’s “zero tolerance” IOIs?

Funny, how “news” accounts by “real reporters” don’t seem to be curious.

How much more attention did he need to call to himself? Is it wrong to wonder if anyone’s palms were getting greased? Including not just his ATF overseers, but agents at docks approving shipments to hostile nations…?

What a Democrat dilemma that this illegal alien criminal will face deportation once he’s served his sentence. I can see heads exploding trying to figure which side to take.

UPDATE

Looks from the criminal complaint that he used “straw purchasers.”

I’m still not clear on what this “firearms business in Houston” is about, but then with all the stuff I gotta do today, I’ve only had time to scan the complaint, not go through it line-by-line.

[Via WiscoDave]

None Dare Call It Bipolar

The FDIC will eliminate “reputational risk” from regulatory standards. Since President Obama began “Operation Choke Point,” Democrats and anti-gun financial institutions have weaponized “reputational risk” to de-bank the gun industry. [More]

See? Back and forth, back and forth…

[Via Jess]

Sprint to the End

After a floor vote on SB318 was delayed last Thursday, the bill was brought up again on the Senate Floor tonight for a vote and was passed 21 to 18. Numerous gun stores from around the state have told us the bill could put every gun store in New Mexico out of business. [More]

A gas-operated firearm and magazine ban, red-flag gun confiscation, and concealed carry infringements are still in the pipeline. The session ends Saturday, so Democrats are looking to do as much damage as they can.

Like Nobody’s Business

The bill could put every gun store in New Mexico out of business by amending New Mexico’s Unfair Trade Practices Act to make it easier to sue a gun store than any other type of business and imposing harsher penalties on gun stores than any other type of business. [More]

And when they pass that, Democrats have plenty more waiting in the wings.

Breaking the Code

To prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer, and for other purposes. [More]

But…but…but precrime snitchware…

Now we’ll see if there are enough Vichycons joining Democrats to block it…

[H/T CCRKBA]

Should Be Easy Enough to Determine

“They sell weapons to drug cartels… the fact is that the Ukrainian military sells a huge percentage, up to half of the weapons we send them. And this is not my guess. This is a fact. Not speculation. They sell it, and a lot of it ends up with drug cartels on our border. So this is a crime,” Carlson said, quoted by RIA Novosti. [More]

If true, it should be provable from “crime scene” serial numbers, like in Fast and Furious . If not, a correction and apology are in order.

So… is anybody else looking into it?

[Via bondmen]

If It Were About Poll Taxes There Wouldn’t Be a Question

Today, Congressman Ronny Jackson (TX-13) reintroduced the No User Fees for Gun Owners Act. This legislation would prohibit any state or local government from requiring insurance, taxes, user fees, or similar burdensome charges as a condition for the continued ownership of firearms, pistols, or revolvers. [More]

No prognosis yet.

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

And not to p!$$ off any Fudds, but what the hell is Pittman-Robertson, anyway? Or is that a “good” infringement, and not to be questioned by mere Second Amendment absolutists?

[Via Jess]

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