APNewsBreak: Ex-Marines arrested in weapons scheme

[unhappycamper]

APNewsBreak: Ex-Marines arrested in weapons scheme
(AP) – 12 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal agents have arrested three retired Marines suspected of selling illegal assault weapons to a notorious Los Angeles street gang, The Associated Press has learned. The suspected ringleader, Adam Gitschlag, who served in Iraq and was once based at Camp Pendleton, was arrested at his Orange County home Nov. 2 as part of an operation carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as military investigators and local police.

The arrests were announced Tuesday, a week after a Navy SEAL in San Diego and two others were charged with smuggling machine guns from Iraq for sale on the black market.

Investigative documents obtained by the AP state that Gitschlag oversaw the sale of two cases containing firearms, including an AK-47, two Russian and Romanian variants of the weapon and two other semiautomatic rifles.

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According to a criminal complaint, SEAL Nicholas Bickle of San Diego smuggled 80 AK-47 weapons from Iraq or Afghanistan, including factory-made 7.62 mm Iraqi machine guns that would be difficult or impossible to trace. Other weapons included Ruger handguns of the type used by U.S. military police officers.

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John Torres, the ATF's special agent in charge of the Los Angeles area, declined to comment on details of the ongoing investigation but said "it is a shame that these individuals took an oath to protect the nation, but placed the communities at risk by allegedly selling illegal high-powered firearms to gang members."

[Burma Jones]

1. There are far better ways for retired Marines to make money

The Military Industrial Complex is chock full of 'em.......


I guess arms smuggling is more fun than writing up ways of getting the Government to pay for studies on how to combat arms smuggling.......

[spanone]

2. to gangs? holy shit.