Another one bites the dust!
Young Money Cash Money Billionaire artist and Bronx-bred M.C. Cory Gunz was arrested for possession of a .9mm handgun over the weekend. Plain clothes officers pulled him over in a cab he was riding in, searched the rapper’s backpack and discovered the lethal weapon.
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His name is fitting, considering that Gunz is the latest New York rapper to be popped on firearm charges.
When will rappers learn that when it comes to the ratchets, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD don’t play?
If convicted, the 24-year-old father of two daughters could face a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in jail, stalling his promising career.
Didn’t Cory learn from his boss and labelmate Lil Wayne, who was sentenced to a year at New York’s notorious Rikers Island after a gun was found on his tour bus in July of 2007?
Or what about Queens, NY rapper Ja Rule, who is currently serving a two-year prison sentence stemming from a July 2007 arrest? NYPD officers found a loaded semi-automatic firearm with the serial number scratched off, hidden in the backseat of Ja’s luxury Maybach.
Then there’s Prodigy of Mobb Deep, who was busted after police found a small pistol in his car. The courts sentenced him to three and half years in prison.
Lengthy sentencing is the result of getting popped in New York City with a gun. In NYC, if you are a convicted felon, you cannot carry a firearm. The best thing to do, if you really need to carry a gun, is get a permit. The fees to obtain a handgun license in New York City total about $500.
Rappers need to put the guns down and get bodyguards; the days of Ice Cube rapping about his 9 double M are long gone.
Jay-Z and Kanye West aren’t rapping about shooting and killing people, they rhyme about “N*ggas In Paris” and “Murder To Excellence,” the latter being a song about black-on-black gun violence and murder.
50 Cent put the guns down and now he’s rapping about feeding 1 billion famine-stricken children in Africa with his Street King energy drink.
I’m no gun czar and this isn’t the Wild Wild West. If you want to carry a gun go ahead, just remember the ramifications.
Does anyone remember Plaxico Burress? The New York Jets Wide Receiver spent 18 months in the slammer for criminal possession of a handgun after he shot himself in the right thigh at a New York City nightclub.
Burress’ Glock pistol was tucked in the waistband of his sweatpants and began sliding down his leg; apparently in reaching for the gun he inadvertently pulled the trigger, causing the gun to fire.
New York’s gun laws aren’t limited to rappers either. Meredith Graves, a 39-year-old nurse and medical student from Tennessee, visited the 9/11 Memorial last December to pay her respects to those who were killed.
Seeing signs banning firearms at the memorial, Graves, who has a Tennessee-issued concealed weapons permit, realized she had a loaded .32 caliber pistol in her purse.
She asked a police officer where she could check her pistol and was immediately arrested and now faces a gun possession charge that carries a mandatory minimum of three-and-a-half years in prison.
So for anyone out there thinking about bringing their guns to New York City, be assured that if you’re caught, a mandatory three a half years will be aimed at your head.
