NH Arrest Highlights How Drug Trade Will Work Against Gun Control

Gun control advocates see guns in criminal hands and, understandably, say that we should do something to prevent them from getting them. That's especially true after acts of violence, but even an arrest where a lot of guns are recovered becomes concerning for many. I do actually understand why that's upsetting. After all, criminals doing horrible things are, well, horrible. Anyone can see that, and I understand the very human need to make sure that never happens again.

The problem is, though, gun control focuses not on criminals, but on law-abiding gun buyers and owners.

Criminals don't go through lawful channels to buy guns, at least not directly, and a recent set of arrests in New Hampshire kind of highlights just how gun control could never work to disarm criminals.

Five people were charged in connection with a major gun and drug trafficking operation that spanned New England, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Boston.

Investigators said they seized fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana and 94 firearms during the bust.

Three of those charged are New Hampshire residents, including Mackenzie Bimpson, 28, of Berlin, Michael Miller, 31, of Littleton, and Ernest Laplante Jr., 56, of Littleton.

Bimpson is currently serving a state prison sentence after being convicted on drug charges in 2024. Officials allege he led the trafficking operation.

Five people with drugs, some of which aren't producible at the street level and have to be imported from elsewhere, and 94 guns among five people.

You're seriously going to tell me that if New Hampshire had one more gun control law, these (alleged) five people wouldn't have had any guns, much less enough to arm a couple of platoons?

If so, you rode that special bus to school.

Now, there's nothing here about how these guns were acquired. It's entirely possible that they were purchased by someone with no criminal record. It's possible they got them via some other method that anti-gunners scream needs to be stopped. It's also possible they broke every law they could in the process of acquiring them.

Let's think about this for just a moment, shall we?

Among the drugs they're alleged to have had are cocaine and fentanyl. There's absolutely no chance they produced the fentanyl themselves, and domestic stocks are more tightly controlled than a "B" student with a tiger mom. They didn't just walk into a store, buy them, and head back out to sell to people. While it's still prescribed to some, it's still tightly controlled and only prescribed in small batches. That means they couldn't get it at the corner store and probably had to import it.

The cocaine couldn't be produced here because the climate is wrong for the coca to grow. Again, it had to be imported.

Now, my point here is that if these five (allegedly) had the connections to get drugs imported from illegal sources outside of the United States, what are the odds that they could also get guns from those sources?

Seriously, I know that the claim is always that American guns are the problem everywhere in the world, but just because many come here doesn't mean that they all do, nor does it mean that there wouldn't be a source if all the American firearms disappeared overnight. Money talks, and right now, it might be cheaper to have someone make a straw buy here and throw the gun on a truck, but if that changes, someone somewhere else is going to be looking the other way when an armory is raided or something, and anyone with a brain knows it.

Couple that with advances in desktop manufacturing, with 3D printers and CNC machines making it even easier to make your own firearms, and the truth is that there's zero chance of this particular genie ever getting back in the bottle, and only the most deluded form of optimism about gun control would claim it will.

Meanwhile, that gun control would put regular people at a profound disadvantage. We would be rendered unable to defend ourselves from the violent criminals who don't even blink at the same laws that keep us disarmed.

So yeah, these five (allegedly) prove just how bad the whole argument is, and the fact that we're still having it in this day and age just shows that contrary to what many think, society keeps getting dumber.

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