A South Carolina man will spend more than 25 years in a U.S. federal prison for his role as the leader of a gun smuggling operation that provided the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) with .50 caliber and .30 caliber machine guns. The leader of the conspiracy ran the operation from behind bars in South Carolina.
Federal prosecutors announced charges against three men and one woman from Amarillo, Texas, for terrorism-related charges connected to a weapons purchasing and smuggling operation that would move firearms into Mexico to supply the Sinaloa Cartel. The terrorism charges come after the U.S. government designated the Sinaloa Cartel and five other Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is partnering with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) to raise awareness and eliminate illegal straw-purchase gun sales in the Alamo City.
An Arizona gun dealer is facing terrorism charges in connection with a conspiracy to provide weapons to both Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Sinaloa Cartel. Both Mexican cartels are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. Department of State.
Kenya Chapman, the man accused of selling a gun to the Old Dominion University shooter, was arrested in 2021 for straw purchase violations but the Biden DOJ declined to prosecute him.
Federal agents in Tulsa charged a Mexican national illegally residing in the U.S. and his Houston-based son with trafficking more than 75 firearms and bulk ammunition purchased at local gun shows, following a multi-agency investigation by ICE, ATF, and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
The Senate’s bipartisan gun control bill contains heightened penalties for firearm trafficking and straw purchases, although trafficked or straw purchased firearms were not used in Uvalde, Buffalo, Parkland, Las Vegas, or Orlando, among others.
A U;S. Magistrate Judge ordered alleged firearm straw purchaser Jamel Danzy released from federal custody on Wednesday.
An Indiana man is under arrest and is charged with supplying the gun to the felon who allegedly shot and killed Chicago officer Ella French Saturday night.
The San Jose City Council voted Tuesday to enact a fee for gun ownership and to require gun owners to get liability insurance.
San Jose’s city council responded to the May 26, 2021, mass shooting by adopting gun controls that would not have prevented the incident from occurring.
CLAIM: Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claims there is a “straw man provision” that allows buyers to walk into a gun store, buy multiple guns, and pass them on to criminals.
VERDICT: FALSE. Straw purchases are illegal under federal law.
LITTLETON, New Hampshire — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rounded out his two-day swing through New Hampshire at an ice cream social on Tuesday afternoon, telling a packed crowd at the Littleton Opera House that Donald Trump is “the most dangerous president” in American history.
