California Man Charged with Unpossible Crime of Making Guns for Illegal Sales

“Gun control works!”

That cry comes out every time we point out that they don’t. When something terrible happens, anti-gunners focus on what laws weren’t in place and gleefully ignore all the laws that were broken, all while claiming gun control works just like they say it does.

It would be hilarious if it weren’t involving the potential of us losing our right to keep and bear arms.

But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that gun control works. If that’s true, then this crime isn’t remotely possible.

A Rohnert Park man is facing a criminal trial after being indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of unlicensed gun manufacturing and firearms trafficking.

Jose Alfredo Perez, 41, is accused of building and supplying more than 20 AR-style assault weapons and ammunition to members of the Angelino Heights Sureo gang in Santa Rosa, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.

In April 2025, law enforcement officers allegedly discovered “a makeshift firearms manufacturing workshop in Perez’s tool shed and garage, which contained numerous kits for building AR-style rifles along with tools and machinery for assembling the weapons,” according to federal prosecutors.

Perez is set to stand before a judge on Wednesday, but in the meantime, I’m left scratching my head as to how gun control can work, and yet this still happened.

First, there are rules about making firearms at all in California. You can’t just build whatever you want, whenever you want. Everything has to have a serial number, after all, meaning that it’s treated like an actual firearm and all that.

Next, there are very strict federal laws about making guns for sale without a particular license from Uncle Sam. It sounds like Perez had no such license. Even if he did, he still sold guns to ineligible people, which is also against the law. Most likely, though, that’s two federal laws he broke.

“But he could get those in other states!”

Yeah, he could, but you say gun control works, and those other states don’t have the laws in question. It’s not their fault that California’s laws aren’t working. That’s not what anti-gunners routinely claimed for years until it became unavoidable to acknowledge what we already knew.

They still claim it works, they just argue that the problem is that there’s not enough of what isn’t working for it to work, because that makes perfect freaking sense.

Oh, I forgot to mention that California is hell on AR-style rifles, which is another gun control law Perez is accused of violating.

I mean, there are plenty of charges he’s facing right now to make it clear that the laws didn’t seem to do a whole lot to stop him. They didn’t even deter him.

But sure, gun control works.

Also, unicorns are real, the stripper really loves you, the second lieutenant actually knows what he’s doing, military intelligence is right on top of everything, the Nigerian prince really does need your help getting money out of his country, and when the government says it’s a temporary program, they mean it.

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