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FBI Arrests Anti-Gun California Senator on Firearm Trafficking Charges

Posted on March 28, 2014 @ http://tinyurl.com/pszkn28

Being good Americans, we take the position that anyone who is arrested and
charged with multiple crimes is innocent until proven guilty. That's more
than California state senator Leland Yee (D) has done for gun owners in
the past. In August 2012, Yee said "no one will convince me it's anything
other than a joke to say that having multiple clips and semi-automatic
weapons that can shoot 100 or more bullets at a time is necessary in this
state or in this country, it's ridiculous."

Now, Yee has other things with which to concern himself, and none is a
joking matter.

The San Jose Mercury-News reports that "Yee now is accused of consorting
with notorious felons, accepting money for his cash-strapped political
campaigns in exchange for favors and promising undercover FBI agents he
could deliver connections to international gun runners." Additionally, he
"is depicted in a startling, 137-page FBI affidavit of repeatedly offering
to broker illegal firearms sales in exchange for campaign contributions,"
and he is "linked to a host of wrongdoing to pad his political war chest,
charged with seven felonies in a case with two dozen defendants accused of
everything from money laundering to murder-for-hire."

The Sacramento Bee reports that also arrested along with Yee was one
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, a former Chinatown organized crime figure who
once served time in prison for gun trafficking, and who radical gun
control supporter Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) later praised as a
model of reform. The paper separately reports that "The FBI affidavit
attached to the corruption case of state Sen. Leland Yee details a world
of armaments: bulletproof vests, revolvers, assault rifles, shoulder-fired
rockets and mines."

KRON-4, a San Francisco-area station, reports that Yee "asked for campaign
donations in exchange for introducing an undercover FBI agent to an arms
trafficker." Court documents posted with the KRON-4 article assert that
"According to Senator Yee, the arms dealer had contacts in Russia,
Ukraine, Boston and Southern California. . . . Senator Yee said, 'Do I
think we can make some money? I think we can make some money. Do I think
we can get the good? I think we can get the goods.' . . .  Senator Yee
said 'Because, I'm getting a little more into this, it's not just Russia;
the Muslim countries have sources too'. . . Senator Yee asked [another
person involved] if he wanted 'automatic weapons' as opposed to
semi-automatic weapons."

Like Chow, Yee, too, is popular with gun control supporters. In 2006, the
Brady Campaign rated Yee an "A+" and named him to the group's so-called
"Gun Violence Prevention Honor Roll." In bestowing the "honor," the Brady
Campaign noted that Yee had sponsored legislation to require
semi-automatic handguns to have micro-stamping features and had supported
a variety of other gun control proposals.

Now, gun control advocates join Yee in having other things with which to
concern themselves. The Associated Press reports "Gun-control groups (are)
trying to find a new legislative leader to champion firearms restrictions
after one of their most outspoken supporters was charged in a federal
gun-trafficking case."

Until now, Yee had been campaigning to be elected as California's
Secretary of State. He has since withdrawn from the race. SF Gate reports
that Yee's lawyer sized up his client's situation by saying "The future
will hold a lot of work."

No doubt it will.




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