Posted on 07/19/2018 4:53:40 AM PDT by rellimpank
Saying he “can’t think of a worse crime for someone to commit” in a city besieged by violence, a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced an Arkansas man to more than seven years in federal prison for selling military-style semi-automatic rifles and other guns to a felon in Chicago.
In handing down the 87-month sentence, U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman told Klint Kelley that his actions undoubtedly contributed to the city’s “intolerable level of gun violence,” even though the guns he trafficked weren’t directly connected to a shooting.
As more than a dozen of Kelley’s relatives and supporters — most of them from Arkansas — looked on from the courtroom gallery, Guzman described in detail how drug dealers and gang members shoot it out in the streets while Chicago neighborhoods “disintegrate” and parents “walk their children to school through safe zones.”
“Caught in between are innocent bystanders,” Guzman said. “Kids shot while skipping rope in front of their homes, people being shot while sitting in their living room, police officers being shot at and having to shoot back, police officers shooting people who don’t have guns because they are so afraid that they might have a gun. … It is chaos.”
Kelley, 28, of Malvern, Ark., pleaded guilty in March to two gun trafficking charges alleging he sold a total of 21 guns over a five-month period last year to a felon who turned out to be working undercover for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, court record show.
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I would have told the Judge: “No disrespect Judge, but phuck off!
Oh, I believe you.
“Kelley, 28, of Malvern, Ark., pleaded guilty in March to two gun trafficking charges alleging he sold a total of 21 guns over a five-month period last year to a felon who turned out to be working undercover for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ”
Idiot. You can drive from Chicago to West Dundee or Hoffman Estates in 45 minutes and buy every AR or AK pattern rifle you want.
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Looking forward to getting Roe overturned so that we can ban communist-style assault abortions.
“sold a total of 21 guns over a five-month period last year to a felon who turned out to be working undercover for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives”...…….
Although the “seller” did something really stupid, the whole thing sounds a lot like “entrapment”.
Was the sale performed in person ?
Because this guy in Arkansas wouldn’t have to run a background, would he ?
Was an FFL involved ? Then the FFL would be the blame, no ?
Oh. Just read it.
Yeah, this guy is an idiot.
Eric Holder moonlighting as a gun runner again?
Obviously the blacks arent to blame for Chicago’s crime.
This one man, this non-black is the cause of it all !!
That was my thought. A little bias there, Judge
You must have an Illinois FOID card to purchase from an FFL in Illinois, and no FFL is going to sell a modern sporting rifle to a FOID holder with a Chicago or Cook County address.
I'm sorry, but I'm the judge's side on this one. We don't need new laws banning certain classes of firearms, we need to fully enforce our existing laws, and this idiot from Arkansas trafficking guns to prohibited persons in Chicago, no matter what type of guns they may be, is just the type of person that needs to feel the full force of the existing laws.
Has this judge ever imposed a sentence longer than 7 years 3 months?
Just askin’ because if this is the worst crime he can imagine, no other crime that went through his court could possibly merit a longer sentence.
“Although the “seller” did something really stupid, the whole thing sounds a lot like “entrapment”.
That’s about the only way the feds can nail somebody (Randy Weaver and the Ruby Ridge massacre come to mind). God forfend that they actually get out in the street and arrest criminals. Better to arrest inanimate objects that don’t fight back.
“Although the “seller” did something really stupid, the whole thing sounds a lot like “entrapment”.
Details please. Did seller violate Arkansas or federal law? How? How would he know he was selling to an ATF plant/supposed felon? Maybe he was just a gun show sell/buy/trade guy?
“Eric Holder moonlighting as a gun runner again?”
Fast and furious...same thing but on grander scale and actual murders traceable. The government is the criminal.
“Obviously the blacks arent to blame for Chicago’s crime.
This one man, this non-black is the cause of it all !!”
He got more time than the actual black murderers ...if they get any time at all in Crook County.
“You must have an Illinois FOID card to purchase from an FFL in Illinois, and no FFL is going to sell a modern sporting rifle to a FOID holder with a Chicago or Cook County address.”
Oh yes they will or else risk a giant prejudice lawsuit.
Details: You cannot travel across state lines and sell a gun at a gun show. You can only do that within your own state, if your state laws allow it. He wasn't a "gun show guy."
It is against Federal law for any person to sell a firearm to another person from a different state. It is against Federal law to travel to another state and sell a firearm to another person. It is against Federal law to knowingly sell a firearm to a prohibited person. It is against Federal law to transport firearms across state lines for the purpose of making an unlawful sale.
He also violated Illinois state law by selling a firearm to another person who does not have an FOID card, and violated city ordinance by possessing a prohibited "assault style weapon" within city limits. (He lost his Firearms Owners Protection Act exemption when he stopped in Illinois instead of travelling through Illinois to a final destination elsewhere.)
Throw the book at this guy. He and others like him are just giving ammunition to the gun banners, no pun intended.
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