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« Castleman decision -- DV conviction | Main | Article on McDonald online »

CA antigun senator bites the bullet

Posted by David Hardy · 27 March 2014 10:27 AM

State senator Leland Yee, prominent in pushing for firearm restrictions, gets busted for official corruption, including taking money from a supposed gun trafficking ring.

"The indictment alleges Yee and Jackson defrauded "citizens of honest services" and were involved in a scheme to traffic firearms in exchange for thousands in campaign donations to the senator.
.....
The indictment also describes an August 2013 exchange in which Jackson told an undercover officer that Yee had an arms-trafficking contact. Jackson allegedly said Yee could facilitate a meeting for a donation."

"In 2006, Yee was named to the Gun Violence Prevention Honor Roll by the Brady Campaign for his efforts that included co-authoring a first-in-the-nation bill to require new semiautomatic handguns be equipped with ballistics identification technology known as micro-stamping. In 2013, he stood with law enforcement officials and then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to propose a bill that would regulate assault weapons."

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-yee-charged-trafficking-firearms-fbi-20140326,0,4807012.story#ixzz2xBJeX9xK

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Jim D. | March 27, 2014 1:43 PM | Reply

If true (and this will be spun six ways from Sunday), more information is from the
PM Tattler:
- Yee was working with Islamic terrorists, the Moro Independent Liberation Front
- Through Russian Arms dealers

Yee's apparent rent-seeking interest in Gun Control was to eliminate the People as a threat and open a market to foreign graft.

Everyone uses government to further their own interests, including criminals. NYC got the Sullivan Act to protect selected gangs and bootleggers disarmed Chicago civilians who were posing a threat to them.

Jim D. | March 27, 2014 2:41 PM | Reply

My apologies:
*PJ Tattler*
*Moro Islamic Liberation Front*

wrangler5 | March 27, 2014 7:57 PM | Reply

I thought everybody understood that laws only applied to the little people. Presumably, Sen. Yee thought so.

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