Gun Trafficking Arrest in Texas Has International Implications

For a country that tries very hard to frame America’s Second Amendment as some kind of human rights violation, it’s amazing how often the country of China pops up in enabling the very “gun violence” they try to denounce.

To say they’re not our friends isn’t just an understatement. 

But while there’s no evidence of West Taiwan’s government being involved in this, I can’t help but figure it was. Not only do we have gun trafficking from Chinese nationals, but a surprise guest appearance by North Korea, the Land of Eternal Starvation.

Seven people have been charged for their alleged roles in a firearms trafficking scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

The indictment alleges Chinese national Shenghua Wen, 39, whose U.S. visa expired in 2013, served as the ringleader. He has now made his appearance in the Houston federal court.

Also charged are Chinese nationals Sifu Zhao, 24, Yiyang Wu, 40, and Mingtong Tan, 27, who all resided in Houston; Jin Yang, 60, Ontario, California; Max Mingze Li, 36, Houston; and Richard Arredondo, 51, a U.S. citizen who resided in Mexicali, Mexico.

According to the indictment returned Oct. 8, 2025, Wen and his girlfriend, Yang, purchased a gun store and directed the purchase of specific firearms and their sale to straw purchasers, such as Zhao, Tan, Wu, Mingze Li, and Arredondo. Wu also allegedly recruited one straw purchaser into the ring and transported pistols to a second Houston gun dealer for sale to others.

Between 2023 and 2024, the group obtained approximately 170 firearms and several thousand rounds of ammunition that were destined for North Korea, according to the indictment.  

So now we know North Korea has around 170 functional firearms. 

Assuming they haven’t already screwed them up like they did the launch of their latest ship.

All jokes aside, there are serious questions here. For example, how in the hell did Chinese nationals manage to buy a gun store? I mean, I guess anyone with the money can buy a store, but what about the FFL? How did they manage that one?

My understanding is that the store owner must have an FFL. Someone with an expired visa can’t get one.

That may be where Yang comes in. If she is a lawful resident of the United States, she might have been able to get an FFL herself. That would have let the store purchase happen and allowed the store to operate over the last couple of years.

The fact that these allowed these straw purchases go, though, does raise a lot of questions.

Interestingly, though, they did this during the era of the ATF’s “zero tolerance” policy for paperwork discrepancies, and no one batted an eye. Not a one.

Of course, it’s possible the ATF never audited their paperwork, which would make a certain degree of sense.

Regardless, I see the number of Chinese nationals involved in this, and who the guns and ammo went to–a Chinese ally–and it’s hard not to see the Chinese government’s fingerprints all over this one.

And even if I’m reading this wrong, we’ve got an illegal immigrant using his ability to fly under the radar to engage in criminal activity right under the noses of American authorities for Lord only knows how long.

So much of the American political landscape in just one incident.

Somehow, though, I suspect the usual suspects will just try to blame “weak” gun laws instead of literally what’s actually going on here.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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