The FBI isn't exactly my favorite law enforcement organization. We've seen a lot of chicanery from them throughout their existence, but what we've seen from them lately is just too much. Take, for example, them playing games with the violent crime data.
So when you consider that, one of their former agents being arrested for an impressive number of gun control law violations kind of makes sense.
The FBI has always been a little lawless, figuring the rules don't really apply to them, but even the most idiotic of agents has to understand that, at some point or another, leaving the bureau means they're not protected anymore.
I'm not sure this guy did, though.
A former FBI agent was charged after officials uncovered 18 illegal firearms at his Queens home and at a storage unit on Long Island. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday.
Scott Chiang, 53, was arraigned Friday on a 242-count criminal complaint charging him with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal sale of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, endangering the welfare of a child, unlawful possession of a pistol or revolver ammunition, lack of a certificate of registration and make/transport/dispose/deface weapons and dangerous instruments.
Chiang is a former FBI agent and current EMT and head of the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
On Oct. 10, authorities executed a court-authorized search warrant of Chiang’s Queens Village residence and recovered:
• One loaded and fully assembled tan and purple Glock 26-style semiautomatic ghost gun pistol
• One loaded and fully assembled black Glock 19-style semiautomatic ghost gun pistol
• One loaded and fully assembled black Glock 23-style semiautomatic ghost gun pistol
• One loaded and fully assembled gray Glock 23-style semiautomatic ghost gun pistol
• One loaded black serialized Sig Sauer p226 pistol
• One loaded serialized MP5 assault weapon with ability to accept a detachable magazine, a threaded barrel and a pistol grip
• One loaded black serialized Remington 700 hunting rifle
• Eight additional unserialized lower receivers
• 19 high-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition
• One Glock-style upper receiver
• Two silencers
• Over 1,000 of rounds of various caliber ammunition
• One U.S. Passport bearing the name "Scott Chiang"
• One Republic of China Passport bearing the name of "Scott Chiang"
• Three AR-15 Armorer’s tool
• One Jig Kit
Then, while police were executing the search warrant, the mail came.
Why is this relevant? Because it contained a Glock slide and barrel, just making his life all that much more interesting.
Now, understand that none of this should have been illegal in the first place. However, he lives in the third-world hellhole we call New York. He knows the rules and he broke them.
Of course, let's not gloss over the fact that a former FBI agent had a passport to a foreign nation. The Republic of China is what we tend to call Taiwan, so it's not as bad as it could have been, but it's still a little troubling.
While Chiang wasn't a current FBI agent, this arrest still isn't going to look good for the FBI, especially in light of literally everything else we've seen from the bureau over the last five years or so.
Moreover, look at some of the stuff on that list. An MP5? Suppressors? He managed to accumulate all of that in a state with some of the most restrictive gun control laws on the books.
Maybe it's just me, but those laws don't look like they accomplished a blasted thing.
It's possible Chiang used his time in the FBI to somehow connect with lowlifes who will sell illegal guns or it may just be that easy to find them in New York. I honestly don't know. What I do know is that once again, gun control laws fail to stop people from getting guns.
Shocking, I know.
