See, the right to keep and bear arms is constitutionally protected. The courts have ruled it's an individual right and laid down the groundwork for determining whether a restriction is something the Founding Fathers would tolerate, most of which New York ignores.

Hiring an alleged Chinese spy, however? Not so much.

A former aide to two New York governors was charged Tuesday with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government who used her state positions to subtly advance Beijing’s agenda in exchange for financial benefits worth millions of dollars.

Linda Sun, who held numerous posts in New York state government, including deputy chief of staff for Gov. Kathy Hochul and deputy diversity officer for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was arrested Tuesday morning along with her husband, Chris Hu, at their $4 million home on Long Island.

Federal prosecutors said Sun, at the request of Chinese officials, blocked representatives of the Taiwanese government from having access to the governor’s office and shaped New York governmental messaging to align with the priorities of the Chinese government, among other things.

In return, her husband got help for his business activities in China — a financial boost that prosecutors said allowed the couple to buy their multimillion-dollar property in Manhasset, New York, a condominium in Hawaii for $1.9 million, and luxury cars including a 2024 Ferrari, the indictment says.

Sun also received smaller gifts, the indictment said, including tickets to performances by a visiting Chinese orchestra and ballet groups and “Nanjing-style salted ducks” that were prepared by the personal chef of a Chinese government official and delivered to Sun’s parents’ home in New York.

If true, the allegations show that Chinese authorities were able to gain influence at the highest levels of state government in New York for nearly a decade.

“As alleged, while appearing to serve the people of New York as Deputy Chief of Staff within the New York State Executive Chamber, the defendant and her husband actually worked to further the interests of the Chinese government and the CCP,” United States Attorney Breon Peace said, using the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party. “The illicit scheme enriched the defendant’s family to the tune of millions of dollars.”

Whoops.

Now, there's no evidence that Sun may have guided either lawmaker toward embracing gun control. It's unlikely they needed much in the way of help, but we do know that the Chinese government-funded media has been on an all-out blitz to try and paint the right to keep and bear arms as some kind of human rights violation.

Which is hilarious coming from the people who squished protestors with tanks.

Anywho, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Sun contributed toward the profound anti-gun attitude in New York, but I also don't know that she would have had to do much work in that regard, either. If she did, it's far more likely she did so with Hochul than Cuomo, simply by virtue of her role with the respective governors.

Sun left the governor's office in 2022 to take a job at the New York Department of Labor, but "left" in March 2023.

In Hochul's defense, she claims that Sun was fired in 2023 for misconduct and that information was handed over to law enforcement, which may have eventually led to Sun's arrest for being an alleged Chinese agent. However, Sun spent somewhere around 15 years in state government, most of it with the governor's office, and at least some of that time was doing the bidding of the Chinese government. I also don't think that Hochul caught onto this level of misconduct, either. 

Meanwhile, both governors were infringing on the rights of law-abiding Americans to some degree or another. Both found themselves walking the same line the Chinese government has been pushing, all while employing a Chinese agent.

Maybe they should have been focused more on who they were employing and a little less time trying to figure out how they could infringe on people's rights.