California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the results of a 5-day sweep led by the California Department of Justice, or DOJ, that targeted 51 prohibited persons. The state arrested 13 people and seized 114 firearms and 49,148 rounds of ammunition during the sweep.
The sweep was focused on Los Angeles County using California’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System, or APPS.
“California’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System is a critical tool that makes the work of cracking down on illegal gun ownership and possession possible,” said Bonta. “Last week, using APPS and working together with our law enforcement partners in Southern California, our teams removed 114 firearms from individuals who are no longer legally allowed to own or possess firearms or ammunition.”
“Collaborative efforts like these increase our success in taking guns out of potentially dangerous hands, reducing gun violence, and keeping our neighborhoods safe,” said Bonta.
“A great display of local and state partners coordinating and cooperating to ensure prohibited persons aren’t in possession of firearms,” said LAPD Chief Michel Moore. “The LAPD supports and maintains a relationship with our local partners as well as California DOJ to accomplish this mission on a daily basis.”
The California DOJ’s Bureau of Firearms, or BOF, worked with officers representing the Azusa Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, the LAPD, the Pasadena Police Department, the Pomona Police Department, the Los Angeles County Probation Department, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
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“We are thankful to all the partner agencies of the operation and proud to have been a part of getting dangerous guns off the streets,” said Los Angeles County Probation Chief Deputy Karen Fletcher. “Working together, we helped make Los Angeles safer thanks to all those who put their lives on the line daily and the hard-working members of our probation team.”
“Pasadena Police Department is excited about partnering with the California Department of Justice in an effort to stop gun violence,” said Interim Pasadena Police Chief Cheryl Moody. “This collaboration will certainly benefit those communities most impacted by individuals who illegally possess or use firearms.”
Following leads from 439 cases, agents and officers seized 55 handguns, 19 rifles, 15 shotguns, 17 “assault weapons” and eight “ghost guns” in addition to ammunition and magazines. The sweep follows an earlier operation in the Bay Area that netted 30 firearms, resulting in eight arrests.
I totally agree with X-Hawk you hit the mail on the head
Most probably let their permits expire. Now they are bad, according to the state.
Wait! Only 8 ghost guns. According to Biden and the gubernuts ghost gunsare a huge problem. Must be only in their little minds.
Reading this makes me go back to the movie ‘Harsh Times’ with Christian Bale.
The movie is fictional, but the IRONY bleeds in this story.
WOW a 5 day sweep and 13 people arrested. Very impressive!! WTF were you doing sitting in the donut shop?? Barney Fife could of arrested more illegal gun owners in one afternoon then you clowns did in 5 days.. Socialist communist mexifornia is full of gang banging, drug dealing, illegal POS. Do your JOB!!
Imagine my surprise.
California actually going after folk for firearms violations that are ALREADY firearms violators?!?
Did they finally run out of legal gun-owners in the state to harass and frame?
I doubt it!
They’ll be processed, have their parole revoked, sent back to prison, then released in a few months due to over-crowding. Justice in California is a revolving door.
Taking Property is not usually going to prevent crime, as property doesn’t act alone. Arresting criminals, gaining convictions and jailing them is what prevent criminals from committing more crime. Based on DA Rob Bonta’s short record, he releases people arrested almost immediately and refuses to prosecute people who commit crimes.
So my question is what is the point of all this, except a feel good press conference? What are the charges, are these people getting bail?, How many were on parole/probation and were violated and immediately placed back in jail? Why don’t we have a list of their disqualifying crimes, like forgery, misdemeanor domestic violence, etc. Were these the hard core criminals who commit 90% of the crimes or just process crimes? How many lived in homes with non-criminals, who were legally allowed to possess firearms and did they take property belonging to the residents of a home who were not criminals?
The fact that the details are scarce, leads me to believe its just another law enforcement “Clown Show”, so they can tell us how great they are, as their cities are clogged with homeless people, deaths from drug use are super high (pun intended) and criminals are captured and release without bail or charges. California is a third world country with the “Haves” and the rest, who don’t matter.
We are not fooled.
What a crock. A number of years ago, the State confiscated $5 Million in excess DROS (Dealer Record of Sale) fees that were illegally charged, and dedicated them to a program to reduce the backlog in the APPS system, which at the time numbered in excess of 8000. Then they increased the DROS fee to pay for more “enforcement.” So millions of dollars later, they arrest 13 people in possession of firearms after raiding 51, make a big deal out of it, but ignore that the backlog is now about 10,000 persons. Most of the money went to training new hires, hires who were infamous for quitting after being trained for more lucrative law enforcement positions.