Snoop Dog's Armed guards/Marky Mark etc

[gunsmith]

this article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3021812.stm
says that rapper snoop dog is facing charges for being in a van with guns. Some (unarmed guards) were arrested (got that from a different article) The armed security were questioned & released,
I bet they were cops.
Many hollywood jerks have armed guards and are felons,why not go after the rest of them? is snoop being singled out for being black? Marky Mark Wahlberg uses guns in all his movies and he is well known for his anti gun views
http://www.ravnwood.com/archives/001504.shtml
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2360
we should insist that fair is fair,if snoop has to go without Armed Security so should marky mark

 

[Mark Tyson]

Snoop's crew had body armor as well.

If the guns were in posession of his guards rather than him, I don't see what he was arrested for.

 

[mattd]

Not being able to have armed body guards, very stupid.

 

[Kharn]

Gunsmith:

Many hollywood jerks have armed guards and are felons,why not go after the rest of them? is snoop being singled out for being black?

I wouldn't be suprised if it had something to do with Snoop Dog being notorious for smoking lots of weed in years past. You dont get to thumb your nose at the cops on national TV and get away with it for very long.
Also, people were noticed exiting the vehicle with bullet proof vests (see the bolded quote in the first article), I believe that in most states a convicted felon is prohibited from possessing/wearing a vest.

Kharn

 

[gunsmith]

rapper 50 cent wears armor

and he is a proud felon

 

[mattd]

Snoop stopped smoking weed about 3 months or so ago.

 

[Jim March]

I think it's more of BATFE's desperation for busts.

First, 18USC922 controls "prohibited persons". I waded through most of it; I can't see how a felon could be barred from hiring security under it:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/922.html

Second, this is liable to turn into a PR backfire from hell against Ashcroft, Dubya and company. Really stupid.

Third, the Dogg isn't anywhere near as annoying as "Marky". The only thing Snoop Dogg has ever brutalized has been the English language - fershizzle!

 

[Sven]

Shakespeare was probably slighted for 'brutalizing' the English language as well, coining all those new words. How DARE anyone innovate?

Snoop was shot at a month or two ago while driving down the freeway in his "Snoop DeVille" - I believe a security guard of his was hit. It must be tough being a celebrity, not being able to drive around town and show off the bling bling without fearing for your life. I feel _so_ sorry for those folks.

-sven, with the world's smallest record player, playing 'My Heart Cries for You'

 

[Jim March]

Well annoying or rich or whatever, he does have the right to live.

 

[2dogs]

NEWS RELEASE


Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
12500 N.E. Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA 98005

SNOOP DOGG'S BODYGUARDS IN TROUBLE;
WHAT ABOUT TED KENNEDY'S SECURITY?

For Immediate Release:

BELLEVUE, WA - If the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating rapper Snoop Dogg's armed bodyguards for violation of federal weapons laws, why isn't the agency also snooping into Sen. Ted Kennedy's armed security?

That's the question being asked today by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). Reports say ATF agents may present a case against the rapper's bodyguards because it is a violation of federal law for a felon to possess guns or ammunition, or for anyone knowingly employed by a felon to carry a firearm or ammunition. Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was convicted on a serious drug charge in 1990.

"And that brings us around to Sen. Kennedy," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron. "On July 25, 1969, he pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a crime, the fatal car crash at Chappaquiddick. That guilty plea under federal gun law not only disqualifies Kennedy from owning a firearm, it also prevents him from having an armed bodyguard.

"Kennedy has employed armed bodyguards in the past," Waldron said. "Some years ago, Kennedy bodyguard Chuck Stein was arrested at the Russell Senate Office Building with a handgun, two submachine guns and 146 rounds of ammunition. In all fairness, it would seem that ATF agents might also investigate whether Kennedy continues to have armed bodyguards, unless, of course, they have gone to the Doggs.

"Snoop Dogg and Ted Kennedy not only have armed bodyguards in common," Waldron observed, "they both have criminal convictions that disqualify them from owning firearms. That probably explains why Sen. Kennedy doesn't want the rest of us to own a gun.

"But the potential that Kennedy may be violating a federal gun statute, for which he likely voted, is a serious question," Waldron insisted. "ATF agents should verify whether Kennedy has armed security and take appropriate action. Sen. Kennedy has long been an advocate of equal justice for all, and now he can prove it by disclosing to the ATF if he has armed bodyguards. It would be a sad day, indeed, if a millionaire rap artist was subjected to a different standard than a millionaire politician."

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.


http://www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/press-releases/CC-Snoopdogg.htm