California Gun, Ammo Control Fails to Prevent FBI Agents From Being Shot At – Bearing Arms

I start a lot of these pieces with something about how proponents claim gun control works, only to highlight something that doesn’t just disprove that assertion, but obliterates it. The reason for that is because we keep hearing it, and we keep seeing the claim disproven; only a few in the media seem remotely interested in recognizing that fact.

Take California (please?), as an example.

They’ve got the toughest gun control laws on the planet and even have ammo control laws.

That ammo control didn’t do a lot of good to stop FBI agents from having to dodge gunfire recently.

FBI agents dodged a hail of bullets Wednesday just after 6 a.m. as they closed in on “an alleged Mexican Mafia-connected drug empire in San Diego County,” according to the New York Post.

The agents identified themselves and were greeted with gun shots, leading to a short exchange of gunfire.

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The Department of Justice noted that a total of 42 indictments issued in the lead-up to Wednesday’s actions. Those indictments were for “alleged members and associates of various San Diego County street gangs, including an increasingly violent and sophisticated Poway gang called Varrio Hidden Hills.”

So these weren’t cartel members or international terrorists with ties to arms dealers who cater to large, well-financed criminal organizations. It’s a street gang that’s involved in a little bit more than the Sharks or the Jets ever were. Shocking, I know.

Despite the myriad of gun control measures, including a background check requirement on ammo sales and a ban on so-called ghost guns, these street gang members were allegedly able to get both firearms and ammunition to use against federal agents.

Tell me again how well those laws work. Go on, tell me.

“But California has low crime!”

And they’re a wealthy state with great weather, both of which have a tendency to impact the violent crime rate in a positive way. The truth is that the criminals there are armed just as easily as they are in a state like pro-gun Mississippi, Arkansas, or Texas.

The reason is simple. Criminals do not obey laws, so while ammo background checks were meant to prevent bad guys from getting ammunition, what they actually did was create a low-risk pathway for criminals who simply haven’t been caught yet to buy ammo and make a profit by selling it to their buddies. They didn’t prevent crime so much as create criminal business opportunities.

Brilliant.

Just freaking brilliant.

But, unsurprising in the least, too. After all, the state has restricted so-called ghost guns, but they still show up on the streets. They’re trying to restrict what 3D printers can print, and will if the right organization creates a standard, but that’s not going to do a damned thing, either, since  you can just buy a printer in a different state easily enough or just jailbreak the one you have.

Oh, they want to criminalize jailbreaking one? Who cares? They have to realize someone has done so before they can arrest them, and by then, how many so-called ghost guns are on the streets?

And how much ammo was purchased by straw buyers who will never get caught because ammo isn’t serialized and never will be?

I can’t say that I wish I was shocked by it. What I do wish, though, was that someone in Sacramento would wake the hell up and start repealing these infringements on people’s rights after seeing how little gets accomplished by it.

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