The L.A. Clippers’ Amir Coffey was arrested Sunday around 2:30 a.m. and charged with firearm possession after police allegedly found a loaded gun in a vehicle in which he was riding.
Coffey allegedly admitted the gun was his, TMZ Sports reported.
He was booked into jail just after 5:00 a.m. and “released four hours later on his own recognizance.”
Outkick noted the charge is a misdemeanor and Coffey will be returning for a court appearance sometime during the month of August.
Another person in the same vehicle as Coffey received a marijuana charge.
California has the most stringent gun controls in the nation. Those controls include an “assault weapons” ban, a ban on “high capacity” magazines, a red flag law, a ten-day waiting period on gun purchases, a ban on campus carry for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, regulations on firearms Democrats describe as “ghost guns,” a ban on open carry, a permit requirement to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense, and a background check requirement for ammunition purchases, among other things.
Despite the myriad gun controls, more than 17% of our nation’s homicides occurred in California in 2021.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.