T.I. is Going to Jail

T.I. will make his initial court appearance today after he was arrested this weekend on weapons charges. Saturday in Atlanta, ATF, U.S. Marshals: Fugitive Task Force, Fulton County SWAT, Fulton County PD, Dekalb County PD, and the ATF/Atlanta PD Violent Crime Impact Team all converged on T.I.s house and arrested him for possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers, and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. CNN says:

The arrest resulted from an investigation that began this month when a federal firearms dealer contacted the ATF about a man inquiring about buying a machine gun without registering the weapon as required, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

After attempting to purchase several machine guns from an undercover ATF agent, the unnamed individual — who said he had been working as a bodyguard for Harris since July 2007 — was arrested and began cooperating with the government and said that he was buying the machine guns and silencers for Harris.

Harris allegedly brokered the deals through the bodyguard because he is a convicted felon. It is a violation of federal law for a convicted felon to have another person purchase or acquire firearms on his behalf.

I am a big supporter of guns and the second amendment. Chris Rock was right about gun control. There shouldn’t be any. There should be bullet control. Price bullets starting at $5,000 a piece, then if someone shoots someone else, you know they deserved it. Especially if the victim has about $50,000 worth of bullets in him. According to Wikipedia T.I.’s felon status stemmed from selling cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and while selling drugs he was in possession of guns. In addition, he has numerous probation violations, again selling drugs while in possession of guns. This current bust only included guns, which violate his felony probations again. If Nicole Richie can get an hour behind bars, T.I. is gonna get the book thrown at him, a big thick book, like a dictionary or something really big, and thick. Then after an hour or two they’ll shake the long finger of the law at him again, and tell him he better be good this time.