“Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years for corruption and bribery conviction,” CNN reported Wednesday. This was ” following his conviction on bribery and corruption charges after taking cash, a Mercedes Benz and gold bars as bribes in exchange for helping three businessmen and the Egyptian government.”
What this also means is that Menendez, a huge proponent of disarming law-abiding Americans, is a “prohibited person,” forbidden by federal (and New Jersey) law from owning a gun. He thus joins an uncounted number of criminal Democrat politicians, including a long list of many who were members of Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” coalition, now caught up in a net they cast to catch their countrymen.
Menendez was particularly zealous in that. “A founding member of the Senate Gun Violence Prevention Caucus,” a leftist boondoggle that criminalizes gun owners and, judging from the predators still able to arm themselves by ignoring the law, prevents no violence. In this case, his “Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act” aimed at transactions completed by people obeying prior restraints could obviously not restore nor preserve any records of black market transfers.
Accounting for all of Menendez’s attacks on the Second Amendment would fill volumes. Suffice it to say a search for the term Bob Menendez + gun provides plenty of examples, including:
- N.J. Senator Menendez co-launches bill to give ATF, FBI gun tracking power
- Booker, Menendez, Blumenthal Reintroduce Federal Firearm Licensing Act
- Menendez, Watson Coleman Reintroduce Gun Safety Legislation to Outlaw Gun Silencers
- Sen. Bob Menendez, Mayor Ras Baraka call for more enforcement of federal gun laws
- U.S. Senate Democrats unveil legislation to ban high-capacity gun magazines
- Egypt, guns, money and power at center of Menendez indictment
That last point was elaborated on by Larry Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, who noted:
The charges allege Sen. Menendez took bribes to benefit the businesses and the Egyptian government, “including with respect to foreign military sales and foreign military financing,” over which the senator has oversight as the Senate Foreign Relations Chairman, and Ranking Member previously. Sen. Menendez allegedly provided non-public information to intermediary businesses, after which one businessman texted an Egyptian official stating, ‘The ban on small arms and ammunition to Egypt has been lifted. That means sales can begin. That will include sniper rifles among other articles.’”
There’s plenty more. One of the more obnoxious and evil edicts Menendez backed was:
“Throw ‘em into prison for five years” is what New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez wants for any out-of-state concealed carry permit holder who enter his state with a firearm.
That’s a hell of an attitude for someone born to Cuban immigrants. Rather than embracing the freedom that made this country different from the totalitarian regime his parents fled, he instead adopted Fidel Castro’s tyrannical “¿Armas para que?” violence monopoly policies.
Maybe Menendez will soon meet some gun owners who are incarcerated simply for exercising a Constitutionally enshrined right. In any case, his now being one of the disarmed that he spent a career trying to turn ordinary citizens into recalls nothing so much as a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard…
And what will be lost on him is people he has disparaged and tried to criminalize, Second Amendment advocates, believe a lifetime gun ban on non-violent people does not comport with the history text, and tradition of the right to keep and bear arms as understood by the Founders.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Don’t drop the soap, Bob.
I doubt he will serve much time. He will appeal it and be allowed loose until all of the appeals are done. Then the prison system will give him a humanitarian release. Then he will laugh at us while getting into his offshore bank accounts.
The cell door can’t slam shut on the POS Menendez fast enough and silence the corrupt scumbag . Good by Bobby your a turd , do your time and shut up .
Former senator Menendez is unlikely to do any hard time. He will be assigned to a less strict-regime prison, as was Bernard Madoff.
Senators wheel and deal all the time. No news there. But, I wonder what his TRUE crime was, that made the establishment want to kick him out of their little country club near the Potomac?
Also, his not being allowed to own a gun is probably no big deal for him, since I’m sure the closest he ever came to a gun was the ones holstered under the suits of his body guards.
This is the slime you end up with whenever someone spends 50 years as a politician.
Oh and Bob, your new old lady probably won’t have as big a tits as you’re used to…