NYPD Takes Wobbles Down…After Letting Gang ‘Acquire’ Almost 100 Guns

By Dan Zimmerman

As we noted with our recent Quote of the Day, firearms prohibition can result in perverse economic incentives. Which is apparently what kept a 500-pound Bronx gang-banger named Wobbles in bidness. “Ten gang members were charged with smuggling assault weapons from Westchester, Connecticut, and Maine and reselling them in the city, said NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The biggest bad boy busted was the group’s hefty ringleader William (Wobbles) Soler, a 33-year-old who allegedly sold 93 weapons — including .22-caliber pistols and semi-automatic rifles — to an undercover officer last year.” . . .

We’re not sure if we want to know exactly where Wobbles concealed the weapons he was spiriting into New York City.

New York AG Eric Schneiderman wasted no time in issuing a statement for the media.

“This is the way that criminals get guns that they use to murder police officers and murder other New Yorkers,” Schneiderman said at a news conference at his Manhattan office. “People who do this for a living we will pursue as aggressively as we can.”

In fact most of the ten doods apprehended after selling guns to an undercover officer were Bloods members.

So we’re …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns