Wei Xu talkin' about, Willis?
Posted on 07/18/2019 4:46:14 PM PDT by ransomnote
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection watch commander at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport has admitted running an illegal gun operation, authorities said. Wei Xu, 56, of Santa Fe Springs, was arrested Feb. 5 after an investigation involving undercover officers to whom Xu sold three guns out of the trunk of his car, including an “off-roster” pistol, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. He has been on unpaid administrative leave since his arrest and will be fired, according to Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. In court Wednesday, Xu pleaded guilty to illegally selling guns on the internet, some of which he obtained by using his power as a law enforcement official, and to creating a fake company to avoid paying taxes, prosecutors said. He also pleaded guilty to illegally possessing unregistered firearms and making false statements to a federal agency about his involvement with a Chinese company to get a secret-level security clearance. ADVERTISEMENT “Mr. Xu’s public life as a federal officer masked his private greed and disrespect for the law,” U.S. Atty. Nick Hanna said in a news release. “Public officials promise to act with integrity when they take an oath of office, and we will zealously prosecute those who mock the laws they have sworn to uphold.” Prosecutors said that between the late 1990s and when he was arrested, Xu sold at least 99 guns without a license, some within days of buying them. Officials said he increased his profits by exploiting his status as a law enforcement officer to buy handguns that can’t be sold to the public by a federal licensed dealer. When investigators searched Xu’s home in February, they found more than 250 weapons, including 41 machine guns and two short-barreled rifles.
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All well and good but when are the Fast and Furious criminals going to be prosecuted?
Making Obama and Holder proud, isn’t he?
Wei Xu talkin' about, Willis?
Rightfully called an arsenal.
Never.
Probably just a misunderstanding.
So, he sold about five guns a year. 99 in about 20 years.
Big deal. /S
This isn’t much of a gun running operation.
Why do we have a possible foreign agent working for US Customs & Border Protection service selling illegal guns to ?????????
Who is screening these bastards?
... illegally possessing unregistered firearms
Define ‘unregistered’. Not all guns have to be registered (yet) in CA.
...buy handguns that can’t be sold to the public by a federal licensed dealer.
That would be ‘can’t be sold to the public... in CA.’
Forty one firearms is a modest collection.
When you have to have forty one >> gun safes <<...well then, now we’re talking about a respectable arsenal!
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Did he ever work for Diane Feinstein? And speaking of the old hag, she’s been awful quiet for a while now. Did she die, and we’ve not heard about it?
SOA plot.
A collector, a true hobbyist.
SEND HIM BACK
Shame on him!!!!
You should never give machines guns.
That is impossible. Machine guns are illegal in California.
utter shock ( >_< ) ping
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