Biggest gun bust in Brooklyn history sees terrifying haul of more than 200 weapons seized as police

[Aim1]

This is how so many illegal guns hit the streets. From thefts, burglaries, and here, illegal gun smuggling rings. So much for lawful gun owners being the problem.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4295446/Pictured-200-guns-smuggled-Brooklyn.html

Biggest gun bust in Brooklyn history sees terrifying haul of more than 200 weapons seized as police arrest 24 trafficking suspects.

By Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com

PUBLISHED: 20:25 EST, 8 March 2017

Two dozen suspects have been indicted in the 'biggest gun bust in Brooklyn history.'

Police have recovered more than 200 guns, including AK-47s, AR-15s and MAC-10s, and dozens of ammunition rounds in the weapons smuggling ring bust.

 

[Reloadron]

Suspects are accused of conspiring to bring smuggle guns into New York City from Virginia

Gee and NY always wanted to blame Ohio, glad we got that resolved. NYC born and raised and actually Brooklyn. Have no desire to ever return to NYC to live.

Ron

 

[bassjam]

"He said that the group used the proceeds from their gun smuggling ring to fund a lavish lifestyle, buying drugs and going on elaborate shopping sprees to buy jewelry, clothing, and sneakers."

Lawful gun owners would be living a lavish lifestyle by buying more guns, more ammo, and larger gun safes haha.

 

[Moparnut]

"We will go wherever we must, including other states, to continue fighting the scourge of firearms trafficking. We will not rest until every individual allegedly importing illegal guns into our borough – and with them death and violence – has seen their names on an indictment like this one.'

Wow! He will go anywhere just because someone "allegedly" is importing guns? How many states will actually work with this guy on an alleged charge? That is a really scary statement if you ask me. Really overstepping his boundaries. Just some food for thought.

Isn't it the FBI or ATF who has jurisdiction across state lines? Just remember folks these are the people we must fight with for our rights.

 

[salt&battery]

I never saw in the 2nd amendment where it was written only "lawful" people can have guns. Patrick Henry said ...."the great object is for every man to be armed". I really do not care if criminals who are maybe one tenth of the population have guns as long as everyone else can have them which would render criminals almost powerless and they would go on shooting each other which is what they do now.

 

[CoRoMo]

Simple solution... just pass a law prohibiting this kind of stuff and that's it; no more gun trafficking. You simply just have to think up the specifics of a law that criminals will obey, and you're good to go.

 

[eazyrider]

I wonder how they get their nicknames.

 

[salt&battery]

Simple solution... just pass a law prohibiting this kind of stuff and that's it; no more gun trafficking. You simply just have to think up the specifics of a law that criminals will obey, and you're good to go.

isn't hard to figure out that gun laws are only to make it harder for regular people to get them and I guess they hope after so many laws are passed many will give up getting a gun. same as the idiotic law where if you put in over 10K in a bank they notify the feds. that law was to stop drug money being cleaned. drug dealers maybe less then one tenth of the population so it is easy to see that law was for 99.9% of the people who do not launder money.

 

[Sistema1927]

Terrifying?

 

[jmace57]

Oh my gosh..."DOZENS of rounds of ammunition"!!!!

 

[huntsman]

So are they felons are they prohibited? or is the crime selling/possessing in NYC?

 

[GAF]

isn't hard to figure out that gun laws are only to make it harder for regular people to get them and I guess they hope after so many laws are passed many will give up getting a gun. same as the idiotic law where if you put in over 10K in a bank they notify the feds. that law was to stop drug money being cleaned. drug dealers maybe less then one tenth of the population so it is easy to see that law was for 99.9% of the people who do not launder money.

But its a 360 billion dollar world wide enterprise. So that .01 accounts for a lot. 100 billion in the US alone.

I hope the gun runners get lots of time in prison.

 

[salt&battery]

But its a 360 billion dollar world wide enterprise. So that .01 accounts for a lot. 100 billion in the US alone.

I hope the gun runners get lots of time in prison.

I guess you forgot about all the big banks laundering that 360 billion. all were caught and nothing happened. they say that is what saved the banks not the govt bailouts. do you think the bankers should get lots of time in prison or just the little guys? by saying you want the gun runners to do big time you have to remember that states like NY want states where the guns came from that have lax gun laws prosecuted , sued fined or gun shops put out of business. so I guess that is what you want

 

[BrocLuno]

So how many criminals live and work in Brooklyn?

217 guns does not seem like much in an area that prolly already has 250,000 guns of one kind or another ...

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I am used to seeing articles on NYC gun laws that point out stats like only 25,000 or so legally registered and licensed pistols and most of those owned by retired cops, etc. Then below what the newspapers call the cut off line for space filler the note that NYPD or ATF estimate one or two million illegal handguns in NYC.

Plus the language in the article shows a focus on guns, rather than criminals. If they focussed on crime and criminals, maybe that would affect the demand for illegal guns. Gunrunning is a result of crime, not a cause.
217 guns and dozens of rounds may be the biggest gunrunning bust ever, but it's a drop in the bucket.

 

[GAF]

I guess you forgot about all the big banks laundering that 360 billion. all were caught and nothing happened. they say that is what saved the banks not the govt bailouts. do you think the bankers should get lots of time in prison or just the little guys? by saying you want the gun runners to do big time you have to remember that states like NY want states where the guns came from that have lax gun laws prosecuted , sued fined or gun shops put out of business. so I guess that is what you want

I left out the banks because I did not want to get to far off of this threads main post.
The bankers need prison time too. The biggest of the crooks very rarely serve time.
If you haven't watched this documentary I suggest you do. It is called the "Cocaine Cowboys"

 

[salt&battery]

I left out the banks because I did not want to get to far off of this threads main post.
The bankers need prison time too. The biggest of the crooks very rarely serve time.
If you haven't watched this documentary I suggest you do. It is called the "Cocaine Cowboys"

that is why calling for huge prison time for small guys is counterproductive cause it maintains the illusion that something is being done when it is not. small time drug traffickers are imprisoned to stifle competition for the big guys that feed the banks. same as when the oil or electric companies and others are threatened by devices that cut the usage of their products use the govt to shut down any threat to them

 

[Speedo66]

Big deal, they get more guns than that every time they do a "buyback" scheme in Brooklyn. There were way more than that when I sold, ere, turned in some in Brooklyn years ago.

The article I saw also mentioned a Thompson "machine gun". I'm sure it was nothing more than a semi-auto .45 carbine with some added hyperbole.

 

[illinoisburt]

So what am I missing here? The law enforcement people are saying all these easy to get guns are causing crime. Somehow the crime isn't happening where these bad dudes are acquiring them. Maybe they're providing a benefit to the Virginia communities by removing those bad things to keep crime lower there. Wouldn't that make these young folks good guys?

Seriously though. Yes it's a bunch of guns that were funneling into bad hands and people like this aren't exactly helping their communities. In the end, it's still an issue of the people not the tools.

 

[scaatylobo]

I was born in NYC,and lived there for 25 years.
I left in early 1970's.
There was NO problem at all to buy a gun back then = YES even a pistol of any caliber or size.
Not proud of the fact,but I knew many men who owned and carried a gun for S/D.
SAD that the " safe act " will not be taken down now that we all see that facts of the problem = GANG'S RUNNING ILLEGAL GUNS into "gun free zones".
Also note that in that article they call one of the guns a "TOMMY GUN" ------- any gun owner would get a laugh at that one.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Police have recovered more than 200 guns, including AK-47s, AR-15s and MAC-10s, and dozens of ammunition rounds

Dozens of rounds for 200 guns?

 

[berettaprofessor]

Saw the "200 Gun Bust" in the headline and got immediately worried that I needed to go home, till I read more carefully and found out it was Brooklyn.

 

[Tirod]

Well, that's one more gun bust than Chicago.

200 guns and dozens of rounds of ammo sounds like a decent collection, but hardly an arms bazaar. These people need to take a stroll in the streets of a major city in the Mideast. Or the Tulsa Wannamacher show.

 

[salt&battery]

I live near there and I was so terrified I have not come out of the basement yet cause I would get mowed down if I go outside

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I missed the "Tommy Gun" but noticed a single action revolver with grips wrapped in black electricians tape. My thought was that their Virginia buyers were shopping at backwater pawnshops.