Los Angeles Rams cornerback Derion Kendrick was arrested on a felony gun charge Monday morning, just hours after helping his team secure a win over the Arizona Cardinals.
TMZ Sports reported Hendricks was pulled over for a traffic violation and police discovered a firearm in his vehicle.
Officers also allegedly discovered marijuana.
He was booked into jail at “2:14 AM PT on a felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon.”
Yahoo News noted Rams head coach head coach Sean McVay confirmed Kendrick’s arrest and also indicated Kendrick was still in jail, as of Monday afternoon.
When questioned further about Kendrick, McVay told the Orange County Register, “I’m just going to kind of leave it at that until I have all the appropriate information. I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to speak on things that I don’t have the totality of it, other than knowing he was arrested early this a.m.”
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Joshua Dobbs (9) tries to avoid the tackle of Los Angeles Rams cornerback Derion Kendrick (1) during second half action at SoFi Stadium. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
California is has more gun control than any other state in the Union.
Those controls include universal background checks, gun registration requirements, a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a ban on campus carry for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, a red flag law, a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can buy each month, an 11 percent tax on guns and ammo, and background checks for ammunition purchases, among other controls.
The state also has stringent controls on where guns by carried, even by licensed concealed carry permit holders. An ever-expanding number of gun-free zones exist throughout the state.
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.