Antigun crusader pleads guilty to weapons charges

[Pat McGarrity]

Big thanks to Dangerous Dave, our TFA Corespondent in Texas, for this latest exposing of the gun grabbing hypocrites:

In summary: The city of LA gave this low life 1.5 million tax dollars because he started an anti gun group specifically to reduce gang violence.

He pleads guilty to funneling guns to gangs and converting guns to full auto.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2 ... 07-ap.html

I bet the citizens of LA are pleased.

-Dangerous Dave

The most enduring political premise of our time is that the poor have been robbed and that the rich ought to be. The debate focuses not on the ethics of robbery, but merely on whom should be robbed.

The end result is for the citizenry to accept robbery as a legitimate function of government.

Anti-gun group founder pleads no contest to weapons charges

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles gang member who founded an anti-violence group called No Guns has pleaded no contest to federal weapons charges.

Hector (Big Weasel) Marroquin, 51, and co-defendant Sylvia Arrellano, 25, entered pleas Thursday for three counts of manufacture, distribution and transport for sale of an unlawful assault weapon.

Arrellano also pleaded no contest to machine-gun conversion and possessing a silencer and acknowledged the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.

She was given until Tuesday to surrender for sentencing and would likely be sentenced to four years in prison, prosecutors said.

Marroquin lawyer Patrick Smith did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment Thursday. No phone listing was available for Arrellano.

Marroquin was arrested in June at his home following a nine-month investigation into weapons sales by the 18th Street gang, to which he once belonged.

Arrellano was arrested at home as a result of the same investigation

Marroquin founded No Guns in 1996, ostensibly to reduce gang and gun violence. The group received $1.5 million from the city as a subcontractor on anti-gang efforts but its contract was cancelled last year after authorities learned Marroquin had hired relatives, including his son, Hector (Little Weasel) Marroquin.

The son is an acknowledged 18th Street gang member who pleaded no contest in June 2007 to home-invasion robbery and was sentenced to nine years in state prison.