Federal, local effort nets 10 Augusta felons on firearms charges
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Good job! The ATF need to investigate all handgun cases with missing serial numbers especially the one used in the unattended death of School Board member Robinson.
As soon as they serve their time and are released, they will illegally acquire a firearm by theft, straw purchase, or illegal street purchase. Hang out in a gun shop and you will eventually see the baby’s momma come in and fill out the Form 4473 to pick up a gun for the baby’s daddy, who is waiting out in the car. Gun control laws and prison do not modify their behavior.
“Under federal law, it is illegal for the following to possess a firearm: a felon, illegal alien or unlawful user of a controlled substance.” Well, that may be true for regular folks like you and me, but for the elite class, people like Hunter Biden, they can get away with murder. Literally.
This is an excellent program which enables US Attorneys to prosecute the worst of the criminals in our communities. Incarceration serves one or more of three purposes. Retribution, rehabilitation or prevention. Most criminals prosecuted under these statutes have demonstrated that their prior punishment has not rehabilitated them, so their incarceration serves primarily to prevent recidivism.
EXCELLENT work !!
We just had a local judge give a convicted felon in possession of a weapon probation..