Low-Level Gun Convictions Jump Under Sessions' Enforcement Directive

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Federal prosecutors have been pushing to enforce low-level gun-possession cases at the urging of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “punish offenders as harshly and as quickly as possible” to stem U.S. gun violence, The New York Times reports. In the first three months following Sessions’ 2017 directive, the number of gun-possession cases jumped nearly 25 percent, along with a 15 percent increase in federal gun prosecutions in the first nine months of 2017. Law-enforcement officials told the Times that “one man, one gun cases” have traditionally been left to state and local prosecutors so that the Justice Department could “focus on broader investigations of interstate gun trafficking and criminal networks.” Some are concerned that a focus on the number of convictions they rack up may trump their directive to make an “impact on crime.” Gun offenders are the second-biggest population in federal prisons, with drug offenders being the first.

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[CincyDem]

1. Hmmmm...I wonder if there's a racial skew to "one man, one gun" cases. Wouldn't surprise me. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. The ONLY reason sessions does anything is if it is misogynist, racist or homophobic.

And Al FRANKEN is the one sitting home

[The Mouth]

2. As one sometimes accused of being a 'gun humper'

I STRONGLY support strict penalties for any misuse of a firearm. no matter by whom, where or in what context: use it in a crime, go away forever. I don't give a rip if that puts away a disproportionate number of POC, Klansmen, Democrats or Republicans. I like guns myself, target shooting is fun and I believe in the right to self defense, but fail to follow the laws and lose any and all rights to even HOLD a BB gun.

[IronLionZion]

4. And what sort of people are they targeting?

Mostly black people or some brown ones too?

Because it's laughable to think they would get any of the Appalachian hillbilly drug dealers out there on illegal weapons possession. I'd love to see how many Trump humpers could even produce their necessary permits for all their weapons if asked by law enforcement.