Anti-drug activist pleads guilty to gun charges, vows to continue mission

By Andrew Shepperson

Anti-drug activist John Cramsey. (Photo: Facebook)
A Pennsylvania man who said he was on his way to save a teenage girl suffering from drug addiction when he was stopped in a truck full of firearms took a plea deal Monday and promised to keep fighting for addicts in need of help.
The Associated Press reported 52-year-old gun range owner John Cramsey pleaded guilty to two charges, one for unlawful possession of a firearm and another for possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
On the steps of the courthouse, Cramsey vowed to continue to try and help those battling drug addiction, calling the country’s heroin and opioid problem worse than an epidemic.
“This is the plague,” he said. “An epidemic, you’ll find a cure for eventually. A plague kills everything in its path.”
The activist found his calling after his daughter died from a drug overdose in 2016. He formed a group aimed at helping parents and those recovering from drug addiction and also began going on missions to rescue addicts from drug dens so that they could get treatment.
He was on one such mission when he, Dean Smith and Kimberly Arendt were pulled over on June 21, 2016, near the Holland Tunnel in Jersey

Source: Guns.com