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NJ Teacher & Cop Selling Illegal Guns

I love it when the left blames the "gun show loop hole" or gun makers for the FLOOD of illegal firearms that criminals obtain. I love it because then we get a story like this one from CBS TV:

A school teacher and his wife, who is a police officer, were arrested Thursday as part of an undercover operation to crack a gun trafficking ring that included the teacher’s brother-in-law, authorities said.

Five rifles were sold for $9,200 over the course of the investigation, according to court papers.

FBI agents found a 9mm handgun in the coat pocket of the teacher, William Mayes, as he was preparing to leave home for his ninth-grade class at Success Academy, part of West Side High School in Newark, Special Agent Steve Kodak said.

Mayes, 41, and his wife, Irvington police Officer Cynthia Owens-Mayes, 27, were arrested at their Irvington home. Also arrested was Jed Smurda, 43, of Bethlehem, Pa., a painter and landscaper who had been an Army military police officer and federal police officer at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., authorities said.

“It is a sad day when we arrest individuals who hold positions of public trust and are responsible for the education of our children with grave crimes such as these,” said Joseph Billy Jr., the special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Jersey operations.