Leland Yee sentenced to five years in prison for gun running.

Former California Senator Leland Yee sentenced to five years in prison for gun running.

Pleading guilty March 2014 to felony gun charges, you can read here  Leland Yee was sentenced to five years in prison. If that seems like a slap on the wrist, well I have to agree. He plead guilty to selling machine guns and rocket launchers to gang members. If you or I were caught with NFA items without the proper tax stamp it is a minimum 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine and this goes way beyond that, like not even in the same universe.

It appears he took some sort of plea deal for several serious charges such as racketeering conspiracy that involved exchanging official acts for money on top of the illegal gun running charges. How ironic one of the most anti gun politicians imprisoned for illegal gun running, even though it was just a slap on the wrist. Though I am glad he was caught and convicted, I am disappointed he received such a light sentence.