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Chinese Illegal Pleads Guilty to Using North Korean Money to Buy a Houston Gun Store and Shipping Arms to Pyongyang
Shooting News Weekly ^ | 6/12/25 | Dan Zimmerman

Posted on 06/13/2025 9:16:10 AM PDT by CFW

According to his plea agreement, [Shenghua] Wen is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China who entered the United States in 2012 on a student visa and remained in the U.S. illegally after his student visa expired in December 2013.

Prior to entering the United States, Wen met with officials from North Korea’s government at a North Korean embassy in China. These government officials directed Wen to procure goods on behalf of North Korea.

In 2022, two North Korean government officials contacted Wen through an online messaging platform and instructed him to buy and smuggle firearms and other goods – including sensitive technology – from the United States to North Korea via China.

In 2023, at the direction of North Korean government officials, Wen shipped at least three containers of firearms out of the Port of Long Beach to China en route to their ultimate destination in North Korea. Wen took steps to conceal that he was illegally shipping firearms to North Korea by, among other things, filing false export information regarding the contents of the containers.

In May 2023, Wen purchased a firearms business in Houston, paid for with money sent through intermediaries by one of Wen’s North Korean contacts. Wen purchased many of the firearms he sent to North Korea in Texas and drove the firearms from Texas to California, where he arranged for them to be shipped.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicoms; china; corruption; crime; firearms; guns; guntrafficking; northkorea; northkorean; secondamendment; smuggling; texas
And Biden's ATF allowed this? Or did they facilitate it?

Do you realize how much scrutiny an American has to go to in order to open a firearms store?

1 posted on 06/13/2025 9:16:10 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Yeh, they will spot the little polyps your colonoscopy missed.


2 posted on 06/13/2025 9:19:11 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: CFW

North Korean duck hunters?


3 posted on 06/13/2025 9:20:31 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: CFW

One would think North Korea could make their own guns. They must want specifically American weapons, but one would think the most likely use would be here in order to supply terrorist activities.

Something doesn’t add up here.


4 posted on 06/13/2025 9:20:38 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: CFW

5 posted on 06/13/2025 9:20:43 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CFW

“Huh? Wen’s Chow Mein and Gun Emporium just ordered one million AR-15’s for a July delivery and also hired several hundred trucks to make some delivery to Port of Long Beach. Seems legit.”


6 posted on 06/13/2025 9:25:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

Good for business(American). Where does the Norks get the money? They got none and they export weapons. You’d think they think like Israel on a war-footing.


7 posted on 06/13/2025 9:29:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: CFW

“his student visa expired in December 2013”

It’s 2025-
Ya think maybe we should throw the phookers out by now?

FFL for an Illegal Alien, student visa overstay?
How does that work?


8 posted on 06/13/2025 9:42:09 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Nobody prints more counterfeit US 100 dollar bills than North Korea. So when they say “North Korea is paying for it”....


9 posted on 06/13/2025 9:43:14 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: I-ambush

Wonder if Soros bankrolled the deal.


10 posted on 06/13/2025 10:02:15 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Carry_Okie

THEY WANT TO COPY THE USA TECHNOLOGY???


11 posted on 06/13/2025 10:02:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

remember NK counterfeits supernotes... they have Intaglio Printing Presses. the money are snucked thru other other countries via diplomatic pouch.

and then a gun shop is good for money laundering and replace the fake bills.


12 posted on 06/13/2025 10:03:08 AM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: Macoozie

GOOD QUESTION


13 posted on 06/13/2025 10:03:23 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: CFW
China Joe's auto-pen must have signed off on this.
14 posted on 06/13/2025 10:07:11 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: CFW
He was only caught after overstaying his student viisa~15 years because he broke a firearms law, think about that for a minute !

Trump, for the love of our country PERMANENTLY TERMINATE THE STUDENT ViSA PROGRAM !!!!

Not only will you make our country safer, you will severely damage the Educational-Leftist complex who 's tuition is artificially inflated by having 50%+ foreign students, and uses this windfall to attack you and your policies.

This would instantly make college affordable for Americans again, and force universities abandon funding their pet social engineering/Anti-American/Marxist programs.

15 posted on 06/13/2025 10:23:31 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: CFW

Post #5 May have your answer.


16 posted on 06/13/2025 10:37:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
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“Sensitive technology” is one thing but dont tell me that CIATFBI doesnt ship a whole hell of a lot more than a crate or two of firearms out of the country “illegally” every day.


17 posted on 06/13/2025 11:03:07 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: CFW

Why on earth is North Korea buying guns - at retail - in the US?


18 posted on 06/13/2025 11:22:59 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: CFW

Chinese food - Hamburger’s and Guns


19 posted on 06/13/2025 12:53:23 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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