Tell me again we have the best Justice System in the world.

Especially when it comes to gun crimes.

Earlier this year, Bryan Malinowski woke up to noises of unknown parties breaking into his house and seconds later, he ended up shot in the head. A SWAT team had executed a warrant because he had been “engaged” in the business of selling guns without the proper Federal license at gun shows. Bryan Malinowski did not have a record of violence and was respected at work and his community but that was not enough for Law Enforcement to try and arrest him without the need of going tactical and create the conditions that resulted in his eventual death.

But then, this has been going on for years and we are only starting to find out about it:

A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders — sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police — buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from the Deep South to the Midwest, Northeast and California coast.

A nationwide review of government audits and court records over the last 20 years uncovered at least 50 cases of police illegally selling their weapons online, through dealers, out of their homes or the back of their cars. In many cases, the weapons were sold to gun enthusiasts, often at steep markups as high as 10 times what they were bought for.

In several cases, the guns wound up in the hands of violent felons and were used to commit crimes including drug trafficking, international arms dealing and, in one case, the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy attending a high school football game.

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime - CBS News

And ladies and gentlemen, these guns were just not some recovered evidence Jennings or Hi Points used for local crime stuff, but some were full auto and even a destructive device.

On the other side of LA County, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, with secret-level security clearance, was operating an even more egregious gun-running scheme that went on for 20 years. He too eventually pleaded guilty, in 2019, after an undercover agent busted him selling weapons out of the trunk of his car. His stockpile at the time totaled more than 250 firearms, including 41 machine guns and two short-barreled rifles.

And.

the General Services Administration Inspector General found that more than two-thirds had not gone missing at all but, rather, were inappropriately sold or traded —including Uzis and grenade launchers that were never recovered.

And this is where I lose my mind:

"We're not looking to prosecute fellow law enforcement officers," said Eric Harden, former special agent in charge of the ATF's Los Angeles field division.

Harden authored the 2017 memo, which flagged a "growing trend" of "officers purchasing and then selling [restricted] firearms...for profit." The memo warned that anyone doing this was functionally acting as a straw purchaser in violation of at least two federal laws.

What the In-The-Eff do you mean you are not looking to prosecute fellow LEOs? The article did mention that some cops were actually prosecuted and are serving some time in prison for shit that would have earned any civilian a shower of bullets in an early morning raid.

Now retired, Harden still remembers that officer crying on his shoulder when federal agents showed up to arrest him for illegally selling more than 100 weapons out of his home. The officer argued at the time that he didn't know he was breaking the law, but he later pleaded guilty. He served less than a year in federal prison and paid a $10,000 fine but was allowed to keep his Porsche and Alfa Romeo.

Every weapon sold illegally is a minimum 5 year and a maximum of 10 in Federal prison. The Crying Cop served less than a year on a potential minimum of 100 years and that is not a just miscarriage of Justice by sheer double standard.

The worst part is that nobody in Law Enforcement see this as a bad thing. And apparently nobody in the Justice Department has even stopped to think “You know guys, this is fucked up. We should put a harsh stop to people that are supposed to enforce the law and keep people protected from actually selling guns to fucking criminals. We should raise bloody hell and make examples of them.”

But has anybody heard that? How many of you had seen this article before today? Has it made the full media Circus Circuit? Have you heard from Brady, Giffords, Moms Demand condemning this outrage?

Because they are above the law and the bad stuff only applies to the little people, the Citizens of the United States of America who can be and will be treated as garbage.

Hat Tip to Will K.