{"id":190448,"date":"2023-09-26T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=184987"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:12:58","slug":"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time:  <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">5<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/menendez.gif\" alt=\"Sen. Bob Menendez. \" class=\"wp-image-111756\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Bob Menendez now faces serious corruption charges. (<em>Photo: Menendez<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Larry Keane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-sen-bob-menendez\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\" data-level=\"2\">Sen. Bob Menendez<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-serious-corruption-charges\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\" data-level=\"2\">Serious Corruption Charges<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-gun-control-for-thee\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\" data-level=\"2\">Gun Control for Thee\u2026<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-defiance\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\" data-level=\"2\">Defiance<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sen-bob-menendez\">Sen. Bob Menendez<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To say U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has been a thorn in the side of the firearm industry would be an understatement. The gun-controlling politician has railed for stricter gun control, called for bans on entire classes of firearms, taken money from gun control groups to advance a gun ban agenda and has done all he could to undo the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NSSF-factsheet-USMLtoCCLTransition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>export reforms<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the firearm industry to reduce redundancies and regulatory costs associated with export licensing, while increasing national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America might now have a better insight as to why Sen. Menendez wanted more control over those exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-serious-corruption-charges\">Serious Corruption Charges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Menendez, along with his wife&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/nadine-arslanian-bob-menendez-wife-20230922.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>Nadine Arslanian and several executives<\/strong><\/a>, was indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for a corrupt bribery scheme. Sen. Menendez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23989449-menendez-indictment\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>was charged<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible and home mortgage payments. Those payments were allegedly in exchange for the senator using his position to grease the skids for businesses and the government of Egypt between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4218060-fbi-found-gold-bars-in-menendezs-house-money-stuffed-in-jackets-prosecutors-say\/#:~:text=In%20June%202022%2C%20FBI%20agents,inside%20jackets%20bearing%20Menendez' target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"s%20name.\"><strong>also charged<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;with promising to disrupt a criminal investigation and prosecution related to one businessman, and the senator recommended President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee for U.S. Attorney for New Jersey be someone \u201cwho Menendez believed could be influenced by Menendez\u201d regarding the prosecution of one of the businessmen he was allegedly involved in the corruption scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FBI reportedly&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4218060-fbi-found-gold-bars-in-menendezs-house-money-stuffed-in-jackets-prosecutors-say\/#:~:text=In%20June%202022%2C%20FBI%20agents,inside%20jackets%20bearing%20Menendez' target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"s%20name.\">discovered<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;more than $480,000 in cash in Sen. Menendez\u2019s home while executing a search warrant in June 2022, \u201cmuch of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe.\u201d Agents found envelopes of cash inside jackets bearing the Senate symbol and Sen. Menendez\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senator and his wife&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/22\/authorities-to-charge-u-s-sen-bob-menendez-and-wife-today-00117590\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>were charged<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and conspiracy to commit extortion. The charges allege Sen. Menendez took bribes to benefit the businesses and the Egyptian government, \u201cincluding with respect to foreign military sales and foreign military financing,\u201d over which the senator has oversight as the Senate Foreign Relations Chairman, and Ranking Member previously. Sen. Menendez allegedly provided non-public information to intermediary businesses, after which one businessman texted an Egyptian official&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/22\/authorities-to-charge-u-s-sen-bob-menendez-and-wife-today-00117590\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">stating<\/a>,<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThe ban on small arms and ammunition to Egypt has been lifted. That means sales can begin. That will include sniper rifles among other articles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-gun-control-for-thee\">Gun Control for Thee\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, Sen. Menendez introduced legislation to prevent arms sales to human rights abusers.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/1025?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Safeguarding+Human+Rights+in+Arms+Exports+Act%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>S. 1025<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/release\/chairman-menendez-ranking-member-meeks-introduce-bicameral-legislation-to-prevent-arms-sales-to-human-rights-abusers\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>increase Congress\u2019 role<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in reviewing arms exports. That\u2019s even as the State Department noted significant human rights issues in Egypt in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>2022 report<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/egypt\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>Human Rights Watch<\/strong><\/a>, a watchdog group, reported that Egypt\u2019s government was responsible for nationwide repression and causing one of the country\u2019s worst human rights crises in many decades. He even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2023.09.11%20Letter%20to%20Biden%20on%20Executive%20Actions%20on%20Guns.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>signed a letter<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in September to President Joe Biden urging him to reverse the USML-CCL reforms, claiming, \u201cThe State Department is also better equipped than Commerce to assess the human rights and security impact of arms exports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This might explain why Sen. Menendez&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/antigun-senators-bloviate-over-inability-to-block-firearm-exports\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">despised<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;those firearm export reforms that were finalized under the Trump administration. Those are the U.S. Munitions List to Commerce Control List reforms that transferred licensing of small arms exports from the State Department, over which Sen. Menendez had control, to the Commerce Department. The reforms streamlined the export process, removing duplicative processes but also raised the bar for ensuring end-user checks were vetted before any export could leave the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Sen. Menendez has been charged with corruption. A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/8cbd42f68583431381c6d01de928d47e\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>bribery trial in 2017<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;involved a wealthy Florida eye doctor accused of buying Sen. Menendez\u2019s influence by providing him with luxury vacations and campaign contributions. The judge in that case declared a mistrial after the jury was hopelessly deadlocked after more than six days of deliberations. It is worth noting he was not exonerated of those charges. The DOJ declined to retry him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-defiance\">Defiance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Menendez remains defiant. Due to Senate Democratic Caucus rules, he was forced to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/22\/menendez-steps-down-foreign-relations-committee-00117622\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">resign<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;his position as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, but he has said he \u201cis going nowhere\u201d and promises to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bob-menendez-announce-re-election-bid-new-jersey-1st-public-appearance-post-indictment-report\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">run for re-election<\/a><\/strong>. He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/senator-bob-menendez-hires-hunter-biden-attorney-to-tackle-corruption-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\"><strong>retained Abbe Lowell<\/strong><\/a>, the lawyer representing Hunter Biden in his tax and firearm cases, to tackle his own federal corruption charges in court. Pressure is building on Sen. Menendez to walk away from the Senate altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jersey\u2019s Gov. Phil Murphy has called on Sen. Menendez to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nj.gov\/governor\/news\/news\/562023\/approved\/20230922a.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">resign<\/a>.<\/strong>&nbsp;This isn\u2019t because Gov. Murphy has suddenly become a critic of New Jersey\u2019s senior senator. He\u2019s concerned that the corruption scandal could cost antigun politicians a reliable seat. If Sen. Menendez were to resign, Gov. Murphy could appoint a new senator to serve the remainder of his term, which expires in January 2025. He has already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/23\/politics\/menendez-andy-kim-senate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">g<strong>ained a primary challenge<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;from U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.). The New York Post&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/23\/republicans-eye-menendez-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. Menendez Loves International Firearm Trade After All!\">reported<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;that New Jersey Republicans are closely watching developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charges are serious and Sen. Menendez will have his day in court to defend against the charges. The firearm industry, which he has used as a political punching bag, is very interested in learning just how gold bars ended up in his home, stacks of cash in his suit coats and why he was so adamant that all firearm exports be run through his committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"turns-out-gun-controlling-sen-menendez-loves-international-firearm-trade-after-all\" title=\"Turns Out, Gun-Controlling Sen. 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