No cop has been busted in Mass for reselling their handgun ...
Lemme go
this far, for the truthiness.
I wrote "cops", plural.
I
thought the case I was thinking of was two cops, jacked up in a single (joint) trial.
The case that
@daekken kindly dredged up is one cop/one trial(
/two guns).
Given a choice, I am more likely to be mistaken
about the details of whatever case I saw,
and I'll bet it was
that case,
than that there are a few+ distinct cases.
So I can't say that there's some new fad of scouring eFA-10's or 4473's
for cops reselling Glocks. But OP doesn't want to find out the hard way.
A question arises that NES may never definitively resolve from mere public info
(unless someone On The Job whispers a rumored answer to us),
is how did the cop get on the radar,
and why did the law get applied to him?
It looks to
probably be that he was selling guns to gang members.
They found a gun on a thug, and followed the chain backwards.
Who found the gun on the thug - a Fed, or BPD?
Was there an active investigation of the gang,
and this was a loose end they couldn't resist pursuing?
Or was it just a lucky traffic stop?
Things are so bad nowadays that it's surprising that
the cop was even made to quit,
let alone that he was prosecuted. Sigh.
Is there some prosecutor that has a hard-on for straw purchases
(in marked contrast to the way that no state prosecutor has ever had for enforcing the Sullivan Law,
and no Federal prosecutor has for bringing Federal charges against FPP's in possession
when the criminals are already getting state charges)?
Or is there some authority (prosecution, or police brass)
that has a hard-on for cops abusing their channel privileges in general,
or for cops leaking Glocks to the public in particular?
But particularly in light of the above question,
and the ragtime in the Patch article(*),
was his biggest sin selling guns to gang members,
or conducting straw sales (lying on 4473's about ultimate recipients),
or going into business without an FFL,
or selling guns he'd pulled from a policeman-only sales channel,
or selling guns (Glocks) that are FTF-only in Mass?
(*) Patch balderdash:
Karani purchased the firearms, which cannot be acquired by civilians,
using his police identification and falsely certified that the firearms were for his official police use.
During one purchase, Karani also indicated that the firearm was not for resale.
Bolding mine.
Because that's just crap.
The MSM couldn't find the truth with both hands and a flashlight.
But whoever gave the interview/press conference might actually
believe that Glocks cannot be acquired by civilians.
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