From Alabama to the Slammer

I first read about this story yesterday, but few details were available then. It involves a couple of women who thought they could make a few bucks buying some handguns in Alabama, and reselling them on the streets of Boston.

I mean, who could blame them for devising such a scheme? Our wise and wonderful mayor has been spouting off for months now about all these other states that have yet to adopt Massachusetts' "most effective gun laws in the nation".

You listen to Menino, or any one our gun-fearing legislators for even five minutes and you'd think that all you have to do to get your hands on a weapon in Alabama is walk in, hand over the cash, and walk out with a carload of RPG's, belt-fed machine guns, and hand grenades.

Fantasy aside, let's have a look at what some of us like to call REALITY.

Two women charged with transporting guns to Mass.

Two young women are under arrest, accused of buying handguns in Alabama so they could sell them in Boston for a quick profit.

Niya Mills, 23, of Roxbury and Sukia Omere, 20, of Boston were arrested Tuesday and found with six handguns and 50 rounds of ammunition in the car the women rented for their trip to Alabama, US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said. The women had hoped to resell the handguns for up to $800 each, he said.

Any bets on how many hours to which these poor, oppressed minority women will be sentenced?

Older guns, which are cheaper and harder to trace, are becoming the weapon of choice on city streets, police said. Of the 755 guns recovered by Boston police in 2004, about 64 percent were at least seven years old, said Officer John Boyle, a spokesman.

NEWS FLASH - they've ALWAYS been the "weapon of choice" of the criminal population - whiny little hissy-fits from the likes of State Senator Jarrett Barrios about Uzi's and AK-47's notwithstanding.

"They can certainly still function properly despite the age," said Jim McNally, spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives in Boston. "The bad guys read the papers, watch the news. They get to know what law enforcement is doing to fight [crime], and they know tracing firearms is a big part of what we do. The odds of tracing [older guns] are not as good."

Yeah, about as good as the odds of having the crackheads' and carjackers' names coming up as the last lawful owner for any of the "newer" guns getting traced.

Boston police are grappling with an increasing number of weapons coming from out of state.

From where I'm standing, it looks like they're grappling with an increasing number of criminals coming in from out of state, and of course, the inability to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate them.

Although most illegal guns found in Boston in 2004 came from Massachusetts, police have...

WHAT?

COME AGAIN?

That simply CANNOT BE!

Tell me haven't become a victim of Mumblepseak...again.

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Although most illegal guns found in Boston in 2004 came from Massachusetts, police have traced more firearms to other New England states, including Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, and Southern states such as Alabama, Florida, and Maryland.

So, "illegal guns" are coming from pretty much everywhere, with most of them coming from Massachusetts, the land of the MEGLITN.

Hmmmmm...

Mills got the idea to buy and resell the guns from a friend who bought four handguns in Alabama for $800, according to an affidavit filed by ATF Special Agent Thomas F. Crowley.

The friend, who was not identified, then sold the weapons, two Glocks and two .380-caliber pistols, for $800 each in Dorchester, Crowley said in the affidavit.

Gee, we should pass a bunch of law to make that activity illegal. Oh, wait...never mind.

OK, so let's see just how easy it is to buy guns out of state and bring them back into Massachusetts. Remember, according to Menino and his girlyman friends at Handgun Control, Inc., this is possible only because states like Alabama haven't passed common-sense gun laws that deny their law-abiding residents the right to effective self-defense.

Mills told police that she tried to buy the guns from a pawn shop but was turned away because she was not an Alabama resident and instead bought the weapons from unidentified people on the streets, the ATF affidavit stated.

Read that again.

Now, read it again.

Now explain to me how we can blame the state of Alabama for "flooding our streets with guns". These women heard all the rhetoric coming from the gun grabbers about how easy it is for anyone with a pulse to arm up in Alabama. But, what happened, instead? The gun laws in place there prevented them from legally purchasing the firearms, so they obtained them through illegal means.

Why it's almost as if people with criminal intent have no respect for the law. This is truly a shocking revelation.

Omere and Mills were charged with unlawful transport of firearms into the state and are expected to appear in US District Court tomorrow for a detention hearing.

Lock 'em up. Melt down the key.