United States Attorney General Merrick Garland held a press conference to present the Biden regime’s actions on gun trafficking enforcement, in addition to the indictment of a trafficker who supposedly functioned as a straw buyer and moved weapons throughout state lines.
Firearm trafficking is the movement of weapons from legal to prohibited streams of commerce and might take place within or throughout state lines, according to the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan think-tank.
“The justice department is leaving no stone unturned in our efforts to protect communities from violent crime and the gun violence that often drives it,” Garland told reporters. “As part of the department-wide anti violent crime strategy that we had launched last year, we are marshaling the resources of every one of our US attorney’s offices, law enforcement agencies, grant making entities and other components to work in partnership with state and local law enforcement to disrupt violent crime.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has actually established strike forces to interrupt criminal weapon trafficking pipelines, Garland stated.
He likewise specified that federal district attorneys and law enforcement agents will focus on repeat culprits, people who traffic in prohibited guns, and individuals who serve as straw purchasers by acquiring arms on someone else’s behalf to skirt legal limitations.
The DOJ head, previously nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, revealed the indictment of an individual for apparently buying a minimum of 92 guns for others. Police officers confiscated those weapons in Texas, Baltimore, Maryland, and Canada. The offender was likewise charged with one count of handling guns without a license and 3 counts of making incorrect declarations throughout the purchase of a gun.
Garland stated the indictment likewise specifies that officers recuperated 16 of the guns in criminal events, consisting of murder, intensified attack, and drug trafficking.
In addition, the DOJ has actually charged numerous others, consisting of a person who supposedly offered 89 unlawful guns, in addition to almost 16 pounds of methamphetamine.
He said, “this case is just one example of the efforts the Justice Department is taking to protect our communities from violent crime and from the illegal gun trafficking that often drives it.”
During the press conference, Garland likewise applauded Congress in its effort to develop bipartisan legislation to resolve gun violence.
H/T Timcast
