In 2006, (CA State Sen) Yee was named to the Gun Violence Prevention Honor Roll by the Brady Campaign for his efforts that included co-authoring a first-in-the-nation bill to require new semiautomatic handguns be equipped with ballistics identification technology known as micro-stamping.
In 2013, he stood with law enforcement officials and then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to propose a bill that would regulate assault weapons.
And what is hypocritical about that?
State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) was charged Wednesday with conspiring to commit wire fraud and traffic firearms, part of a sweeping public corruption case outlined by federal prosecutors.So at the same time he was promoting making firearm ownership as difficult as possible and (likely) getting endorsements from anti-gun groups, he was helping give firearms to violent criminal gangs.
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2 comments:
I'm starting to feel like the harder a politician rails against gun rights, the closer you should be checking them out for possible felonies. This is hypocrisy on a grand scale.
He was just limiting the competition.
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