Throughout his four years in office, Joe Biden fought for gun control laws. On what seemed like a weekly basis he implored Congress to ban commonly owned firearms, arguing that nobody needs an AR-15 to go deer hunting and falsely asserting that Americans couldn’t own cannons at the time of the Founding.
Even as Biden cracked down on legal gun owners, he and his Department of Justice were busy cutting criminals a break. Biden, of course, pardoned his son Hunter after he was convicted for lying about his drug use on a federal form when purchasing a firearm, but even those outside of Biden’s personal orbit benefited from his soft-on-crime ideology… including the man who apparently armed the terrorist who attacked an ROTC class at Old Dominion University on Thursday.
On Friday, Kenya Chapman was charged with making false statements related to selling a weapon to a convicted felon, according to the criminal complaint obtained by Fox News.
Chapman stole the .22-caliber gun a year before the shooting and sold it to Jalloh for $100 this week, according to an affidavit filed by an FBI agent.
… Chapman was also investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2021 for three alleged straw purchases of guns, when a person claims they’re buying a gun for himself but actually plans to sell it.
All three guns were later recovered at crime scenes, including a homicide, court documents said.
The U.S. Department of Justice under the Biden administration declined to prosecute Chapman at the time, instead asking the ATF to give him a straw purchaser warning letter, according to the affidavit and a senior DOJ source.
Chapman admitted to selling the guns and wrote a letter of apology, the affidavit said.
A single straw purchase is eligible for a ten-year prison sentence under federal law, so theoretically Chapman could have faced 30 years behind bars for his crimes. The maximum sentence is rarely doled out, especially for a first time offender, but it’s not often you hear about a suspected straw purchaser given the chance to walk away after only having to write an apology letter.
Speaking of apologies, all those Virginia Democrats who’ve spent the past two days arguing that gun owners, the firearm industry, and the Second Amendment are to blame for Thursday’s shooting owe the residents of the Commonwealth an apology. Once again we’ve learned that enforcing the laws already in place would have stopped this attack from taking place. Chapman might well be behind bars today were it not for the slap on the wrist delivered by Biden’s DOJ and then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Mohamed Bailor Jalloh got a pretty good deal of his own when he was sentenced to just 11 years in prison for providing material support to a terrorist organization in 2017.
Jalloh benefited from participating in a drug treatment program that shortened his sentence by a year, and that, along with time spent behind bars while awaiting trial, led to his release from prison in December, 2024. Jalloh could have faced 20 years for that crime, and given the fact that he was serving in the National Guard when he decided to become a stooge for ISIS I’d argue he could and should have been charged with treason.
Anti-gun politicians will continue to claim that only another gun control law could have prevented Jalloh’s attack, but none of them will be able articulate what that gun control law would look like. Jalloh used a stolen .22 pistol purchased on the black market to carry out his attack. What law, short of an outright ban on gun ownership and the rounding up of hundreds of millions of firearms, would have stopped that from taking place?
Thursday’s attack didn’t happen because of a lack of gun control. It was the direct result of a lack of common sense in the Biden administration, who looked for reasons to go light on a man suspected of illegally purchasing guns for violent offenders. It was the result of prosecutors and judges who looked at Jalloh and saw a man deserving of a second chance, instead of someone who had vowed to wage war against the country he called home. The Second Amendment isn’t to blame here. Ultimately, Jalloh bears responsibility for the attack he carried out. But Joe Biden’s DOJ was an unwitting accomplice to this crime, as are those in the criminal justice system who were satisfied with putting Jalloh behind bars for just a few years instead of the decades he deserved.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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