burn him...
Posted on 03/02/2018 9:35:05 PM PST by blueplum
A Pasadena police officer who formerly served as spokesman for the department turned himself in to authorities Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of selling dozens of guns across Southern California without a license.
Lt. Vasken Gourdikian faces four felony counts, including illegally possessing a short-barreled rifle and providing false statements while buying firearms, according to the indictment filed Thursday in U.S. District Court.
{snip} In an online forum, he posted ads offering firearms and described the guns as "off roster" and sold an array of pistols and semiautomatic rifles across Southern California, the court papers allege.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Police are the only ones who can be trusted with guns....”
I wonder if any were confiscated but never logged into evidence.
This sounds like a “process” prosecution to me.
California law exempts police from many of the restrains on firearms that ordinary citizens have.
So officers can purchase firearms not available to other people, with the permission of the Department. Then they can sell the fireams to others, because they are now “used” as I recall.
California firearm law is complex, and at times seems contradictory, so if someone else has more expertise on it, please correct me.
http://www.alloutdoor.com/2014/10/28/ca-gun-owner-guilty-conspiracy-buying-pistol-cop/
meanwhile all it took for Holder and Soetero was to call everyone a racists, case closed.
burn him...
Checked with a LEO friend of mine in SoCal. “Off-list” weapons purchased by an officer after the law establishing the approved list went into effect cannot be sold on to a private citizen in the state. The officer can either sell it to a dealer, give/sell it to his department, sell it to another officer or sell it out of state with the usual Fed restrictions but no additional CA ones.
If he sold an offlist weapon to a non-officer, he clearly broke the law.
Anything the govt tries to restrict or make illegal just becomes more in demand by more and more people. Basic economics , like it or not.
Might be so.
The article I linked says it was different in 2014.
I have had many officers tell me things about the law that turned out to be completely wrong.
California firearms law is very complex.
I agree their laws are quite byzantine - but this is apparently pretty simple and he said he was quoting off a directive from the state AG’s office. Basically, they treat offlist firearms in CA as if they were Class 3s in the rest of the country, sans the civilian purchase possibility.
Or turned in at one of the many gun 'buy back' charades.
"Thank you ma'am. Here's your Waffle House gift card."
'Hehe...I'm sure I can get a pretty penny for this Remington 700'
Fixed it for you.
But in California, can’t one pick and choose which laws to obey, like marijuana, sanctuary cities and protecting illegal aliens? Or is that prerogative reserved only to the ruling class?
The cop was probably used to so many privileges that he thought he was part of the ruling class. He just found out he wasn’t.
Well, well, well...maybe each sale should be charged as a separate crime...
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