Jim Ryan for Gov: Gun Owners Have Not Forgotten Former IL AG’s Attempt To Entrap Citizens

RFFM.org ^ | December 15, 2009 | Daniel T. Zanoza

[Daniel T. Zanoza]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article, written by Daniel Zanoza, was published in the January 2002 edition of Guns Save Life [www.gunssavelife.com/]. The article was an RFM NEWS (now known as RFFM.org) Exclusive. The following details how Jim Ryan, who is currently seeking the Illinois Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010, attempted to entrap law-abiding citizens who were selling and/or buying firearms over the Internet. In 2001, Ryan was Attorney General for the state of Illinois. Ryan launched a failed--and what many called unlawful--sting operation targeting gun owners and dealers.

While Ryan was conducting what his own legal advisors determined, up until that point of the program, cases made by investigators would not have passed legal muster in a court of law.

While Ryan was doggedly pursuing his Internet gun sting, AG Ryan reportedly refused to assist the USPIS (U.S. Postal Inspection Services) in an investigation of nearly 1,700 possible cases of the Internet being used for the procurement of child pornography.

Titles below as published in Guns Save Life:

Questions abound: Where are the guns? Where are the arrests? What happened to the money?

A.G. Jim Ryan’s botched gun sting

January 2002

Chicago (RFM NEWS) - RFM NEWS has learned Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan postponed a press conference that would have announced a major investigation. The press conference, which would have outlined a significant Internet gun buy sting conducted by investigators from the Attorney General’s office, was reportedly scheduled to take place sometime during the Spring of 2001.

According to sources close to the Attorney General’s office who spoke to RFM NEWS on condition of anonymity, the Internet gun buy sting ...