8 NYPD charged with trafficking in firearms...

[terraformer]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2...of-smuggling-guns-in-federal-corruption-case/

Some of them had a giggle switch.

Eight current and former New York Police Department officers were arrested early Tuesday on federal charges including gun trafficking and conspiracy to smuggle cigarettes, according to people briefed on the case.

The charges allege that the officers — five are still on the force and three are retired — were involved in illegally transporting more than a dozen handguns as well as M-16 assault rifles and shotguns and a variety of stolen property, the people briefed on the case said. The officers, along with a former New Jersey correction officer and three civilians, were arrested at their homes before sunrise by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and investigators from the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the people said.

 

[dna]

More here

 

[el duderino]

Conspiracy to smuggle cigarettes? Oh the horror.

 

[LoginName]

Conspiracy to smuggle cigarettes? Oh the horror.

Must be awful lonely and boring being assigned to the "T" division of the BATFE.

 

[cekim]

Must be awful lonely and boring being assigned to the "T" division of the BATFE.

Actually, per some recent news articles, business is booming...

The absurd, $7,8,9,10/pack taxes have created a prohibition era style bootleg trade amongst the states with all of the violence and related crime you would expect from black market activity caused by broken .gov policy.

 

[Speedway]

dupe?

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vb...-s-employees-busted-selling-black-market-guns

 

[n1oty]

Actually, per some recent news articles, business is booming...

The absurd, $7,8,9,10/pack taxes have created a prohibition era style bootleg trade amongst the states with all of the violence and related crime you would expect from black market activity caused by broken .gov policy.

Yup, the friggin' idiots forget what alcohol prohibition wrought.

 

[Palladin]

$12/pack for ciggies in Manhattan a month ago when I was there.

Guns are cheaper, it looks like cops will sell them to you!

 

[el duderino]

Actually, per some recent news articles, business is booming...

The absurd, $7,8,9,10/pack taxes have created a prohibition era style bootleg trade amongst the states with all of the violence and related crime you would expect from black market activity caused by broken .gov policy.

I know a couple guys who took a trip south, stopped in a gas station to buy some cigs and got out of there fast as they could, thought the girl at the counter made a mistake when they got smokes for 3$ a pack
Theres plenty of people who will fill their trunk up if theyre down in tobacco country and sell them for double when they get back up here, and its still a bargain.

 

[sig2009]

These idiot politicians do not realize that there is a limit on how much tax you can put on a product. After that it's time to look somewhere else to purchase. My only regret about this was I never had the opportunity to buy some cheap cigarettes before they got caught.

 

[bolt]