Leader of anti-gang group was selling guns

[derby378]

Source: Los Angeles Times

The director of the antigang organization No Guns, which the city of Los Angeles once paid $1.5 million to steer Latino youths away from a life of crime, pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally selling assault weapons to federal undercover officers.

Hector "Big Weasel" Marroquin, 51, was sentenced to eight years in prison, said Eric Harmon, the Los Angeles County prosecutor in the case.

Marroquin's accomplice and girlfriend, Sylvia Arellano, 26, pleaded guilty to illegal weapons sales. She is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison, Harmon said.

Marroquin was arrested in May in a case that stemmed from an investigation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into gun sales by the 18th Street gang.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-noguns18jan18,1,2239748.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[ret5hd]

1. Why would you EVER pay $1.5 million to someone named "Big Weasel"?????

[Acadia Blue]

5. "Curve ball," The CIA bought someone with that name. lol

[derby378]

2. Read more about "Big Weasel" and the NO GUNS shenanigans here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=142615

[virginia mountainman]

3. Like Sara Brady's straw purchase..

Anti-Bill of Rights folks tend to think that their rules, don't apply to themselves, just us, the great "unwashed".

Glad to see another hypocrite go down in flames.

[-..__...]

4. Sarah Bradys "straw purchase" was legal.

However, there are these shining examples of anti-gun hypocrisy...


Carl Rowan...

Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot a teenage tresspasser, Neil Smith, who was taking a dip in Rowan's swimming pool in Washington, D.C.. Rowan used an unregistered .22 LR pistol. Critics charged hypocrisy, since Rowan was a strict gun control advocate. In a 1981 column, he advocated " a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail -- period." In 1985, he called for "A complete and universal federal ban on the sale, manufacture, importation and possession of handguns (except for authorized police and military personnel)." <2> <3>

Immediately after the shooting, Rowan offered several conflicting accounts about where he got the handgun. He first said that he had purchased the gun himself in response to threats on his life (which he later claimed had been made by the Ku Klux Klan). He also initially claimed that the gun had been properly registered. However, when District of Columbia police disclosed that the gun had not been registered, Rowan changed his story, claiming that the gun belonged to his son, who "was an FBI agent and did not have to register it properly registered federally." Police officials pointed out that under D.C. law, all guns must be registered locally; failure to do so was punishable by up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

Rowan was tried but the jury was deadlocked, the judge declared a mistrial and he was never retried. In his autobiography, Rowan said he still favors gun control, but admits being vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy <4>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rowan#Controversy


Barbara Graham...

Million Mom Marcher Barbara Graham shoots innocent man Kikko Smith - also known as Barbara Lipscomb

"You can't tell the kids to stop the violence with the mothers running around like this." --- Mary Ann Smith, after her son was shot by a Million Mom Marcher

After helping to organize the Million Mom March, and even speaking at the event, Barbara Graham was convicted of shooting an innocent man. Now he is paralyzed for life.

The Washington Post reported that "Police recovered three handguns and a TEC-9 submachine gun at her home." Note that the TEC-9 was banned by the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban (AWB).

http://www.tincher.to/mmm.htm

Don Perata...

Perata is a staunch advocate of gun control. In 1999, Perata successfully drove legislation that updated the California "assault weapons ban" by adding a ban of generically-described semi-automatic firearms. However, he has been accused of hypocrisy on gun control, since he himself possesses a concealed weapons permit - something quite difficult for the average citizen in a California metropolitan area to acquire. Nevertheless, Perata deems the weapons permit <1> necessary due to a number of death threats presumably received from certain opponents of his firearms related legislative activity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Perata#Time_in_the_legislature