Gun control advocates also have a strong tendency to favor illegal immigrants. They don't like what Trump is doing by deporting illegals who also happen to be criminals. I'm glad to see it, as are most of you, I suspect, but they don't.
Something else they don't like is guns. They don't like us having them, being able to own more of them or any of that. So what happens when illegal immigration crashes into guns?
I ask because, well, a group of Venezuelans who aren't in the country legally got arrested for shoplifting from Palmetto State Armory.
hree Venezuelan nationals accused of attempting to steal gun and ammunition from Palmetto State Armory in Summerville were arrested last month, according to the Summerville Police Department.
Officers responded to the gun store on East 5th North Street shortly after 5 p.m. on Feb. 27 to reports of a shoplifting incident.
Officers reportedly met with the store’s loss prevention specialist on arrival who said three Hispanic males had been detained. Those individuals were later identified as Alejandro J. Miranda Rodriguez, Yosveni Miched Parra Quinonez, and Edison Alejandro Ramiro Munoz.
It was determined through an initial interview that the suspects — who were allegedly in the country illegally — had stolen hundreds of dollars worth of gun parts and boxes of ammunition. One suspect also had burglary tools with them, authorities said.
“During the interviews, these highly experienced officers observed suspicious activity, including wearing long-sleeve clothing and pants in warm weather and body language indicative of criminal activity,” an SPD news release stated.
The suspects reportedly admitted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in subsequent interviews that they planned to sell the stolen merchandise for narcotics.
The trio was booked into the county jail and ICE put immigration detainers on them, so they're unlikely to be going anywhere except back to Venezuela.
And considering what kind of a craphole that country is, I get why they'd want to come here, but considering how they're comporting themselves while in the United States, I really don't care about any sob stories about how much their socialist country sucks. Especially since it's not like they came here lawfully.
Now, these thefts involved gun parts and ammunition, not live firearms, thankfully. That's not great, but it also means these are parts that could be used to build privately made firearms for the black market. Or not.
It doesn't matter. This is a theft committed by illegal immigrants who are now looking at getting the boot.
The real irony in my mind is that if this had been a store in California, because of the value of the stuff taken, there might not have been any action Palmetto State could have taken. Shoplifting is practically legal in much of the state so long as you only take stuff valued at less than $900, and they wouldn't have done anything because of their immigration status, either.
But that same shoplifting would potentially have armed criminals, which they keep saying they want to stop.
It just strikes me as more than a little funny, but I have a weird sense of humor.
