Rap Group Busted For Toting Stolen Guns During Video Shoot

By Tom Knighton

Rap music has incorporated firearms in its image for decades now. While groups like Run DMC and The Sugarhill Gang didn’t display that particular image, later groups embraced the image of gangbangers with a vengeance…sometimes quite literally. Since then, guns are just as likely to show up in rap videos as scantily clad women.

Smart rappers with the cash will hire a professional armorer to provide the weapons for the shoot. That way there’s some cover in case something untoward happens.

Not every rapper or group can afford that or even thinks about it. Instead, they use their own guns if they have to. In theory, there’s nothing wrong with that…except when some of those guns are stolen.

Cops in Baton Rouge arrested eight people who they say were waving stolen guns and assault rifles around in public while filming a music video.

It’s reported that police seized 15 guns from the suspects, three of which turned out to be stolen. One caller reported seeing the group toting the weapons around in the middle of a Baton Rouge street Monday evening. The group had been filming a rap video.

Two of the suspects were booked into juvenile detention while four …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms