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Montco authorities announce dismantling of gun trafficking ring led by teenagers
Philadelphia Inquirer via MSN ^ | 09/24/2020 | Jeremy Roebuck

Posted on 09/24/2020 2:00:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Montgomery County authorities on Thursday announced the dismantling of a gun trafficking network that put dozens of illegally obtained firearms on streets across the region, including some that were later used to commit violent crimes.

The group was led by a trio of teenagers who paid straw purchasers to obtain large quantities of weapons from gun shops across the region, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. Some of those involved in the network were as young as 14

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; pennsylvania
I wonder if these were the white supremacists that were infiltering the mostly peaceful BLM protests and starting trouble? /sarc
1 posted on 09/24/2020 2:00:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

No pictures of perps posted. Probably Amish.


2 posted on 09/24/2020 2:06:37 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
...including some that were later used to commit violent crimes.

Oh, for a minute there I flashed back to all the felons who
have been let out of prison.

3 posted on 09/24/2020 2:07:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Say what you want about it, but whoever is paying $150-$200 over retail and making enough profit to keep 9 or 10 people making money is onto something. I assume their main competition was the stolen gun market.


4 posted on 09/24/2020 2:09:17 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Seruzawa

The first names and their spelling is enough proof.


5 posted on 09/24/2020 2:10:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

The first names and their spelling is enough proof.

Pretty entrepreneurial, though. “If you love your job, you never have to work a day in your life”.


6 posted on 09/24/2020 2:21:18 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (Wht then small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: gundog

I don’t think it is exclusively stolen guns. I think when guns are used in crimes like murder the perps have a black market to send them out of the country (Mexico) or other 3rd world type blue cities.


7 posted on 09/24/2020 2:23:47 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: The Antiyuppie

So is drug dealing and pimpin’.


8 posted on 09/24/2020 2:24:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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9 posted on 09/24/2020 2:38:44 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

C’mon Man! Eric Holder is no teenager!


10 posted on 09/24/2020 2:39:51 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

But, there’s a recent paper trail. If you’re straw-buying for criminals likely to use the guns in violent crimes, the resale market and distribution chains ought to be the last things on your mind. I’d want that gun unrecognizable and destroyed...and buried or dumped in a lake. Stolen guns are probably cheaper, too. Maybe it’s just a bunch of idiots tryin’ to make a fast $200.


11 posted on 09/24/2020 2:40:42 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: DoughtyOne
I flashed back to all the felons who have been let out of prison

Nah, they will stay out of trouble and vote for Harris-Biden.

12 posted on 09/24/2020 3:16:20 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I hear ya...


13 posted on 09/24/2020 3:27:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Seruzawa

Pics at another site. They are definitely Amish.


14 posted on 09/24/2020 4:37:59 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: philetus

15 posted on 09/24/2020 5:32:09 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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