FOX News correspondent Bill Melugin reports that the individual who killed two officers in El Monte on Tuesday was a gang member who was out on the streets because of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s policies.
Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks California number one in the country for gun law strength.
Breitbart News noted that California has universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, gun registration requirements, a “good cause” requirement for concealed carry permit issuance, a ban on carrying a gun on a college campus for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed on campus for classroom defense, a background check requirement for ammunition purchases, and a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can purchase in a given month, among other controls.
Additionally, ammunition purchases are only allowed if made through a state-approved vendor.
But FOX News’s Melugin tweeted that the state’s gun laws are “some of the toughest…if they are enforced.”
He then noted that DA Gascón’s “office gave a felon/gang member w/ a prior strike a plea deal for probation on his gun charge instead of prison. He killed 2 cops on Tuesday.”
The Los Angeles Times reports that the suspect who killed the two El Monte, California, officers–Cpl. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana–has been “prohibited from carrying a gun since 2011.”
Moreover, the suspect was “arrested in 2020 and charged with possessing methamphetamine, a handgun and ammunition” and he “pleaded no contest in February 2021 to possessing a firearm as a felon.”
Breitbart News reported that a recall effort has been launched to remove District Attorney Gascón, who “was elected in 2020 with the help of millions of dollars in spending by left-wing billionaire George Soros,” from office.
The recall effort reached the threshold number of signatures Wednesday for triggering a recall vote. The campaign to recall him will continue gathering additional signatures until the July 6 deadline, as insurance against the likelihood that some signatures may be mistaken or invalid.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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