U.S. Customs Agent Illegally Ran Guns in California

By Tactical Life

A former U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection watch commander pleaded guilty recently to federal charges for running an illegal gun-selling business in California. The agent possessed more than 40 machine guns and two SBRs, among other prohibited firearms. He also failed to disclose foreign financial interests and contacts in China to obtain his secret-level security clearance. Further, the agent cheated on federal income taxes as well.

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Fifty-six-year-old Wei Xu, of Santa Fe Springs, pleaded guilty to four felonies. They include unlawfully engaging in the business of dealing in firearms, unlawfully possessing unregistered firearms, making materially false statements to a federal agency, and tax evasion.

“Mr. Xu’s public life as a federal officer masked his private greed and disrespect for the law,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna in a press release. “Public officials promise to act with integrity when they take an oath of office, and we will zealously prosecute those who mock the laws they have sworn to uphold.”

Xu further admitted to illegally selling at least 99 firearms without an FFL between the late ’90s and his arrest in …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life