Man Shot by Border Patrol Charged With Felon in Possession

The state of Washington has passed a number of gun control bills in recent years, and most of them were sold to the public as being essential for public safety. That’s how gun control is always marketed, of course, and when it fails to deliver, it’s always a case of how we just need more of what didn’t work.

And, frankly, anti-gunners don’t care if it works or not. We know that because as soon as they notch a legislative victory, they don’t hold off and see what works and what doesn’t. They just pick the next thing on their list and start pushing that.

Like, say, universal background checks. Anti-gunners there wanted them, they got them, and now they’re clearly not working worth a damn.

A Washington state man who was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during an encounter near the Canadian border on Tuesday has been federally charged with illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Nathaniel Muniz-Spry, 40, was charged in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Wednesday with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a prohibited person following a confrontation with Border Patrol agents near Blaine on Tuesday morning.

The Washington State Department of Corrections confirmed to KOMO News that Muniz-Spry was released from prison in April 2024.

According to an FBI affidavit, Border Patrol agents were dispatched shortly after 5 a.m. after a surveillance camera detected a person walking near the U.S.-Canada border in a wooded area near the intersection of Fourth and A streets in Blaine, a location authorities said is frequently associated with smuggling and illegal border crossings.

Agents encountered Muniz-Spry, who told them he was in the area looking for a place to use the bathroom, court records said.

After placing him in a patrol vehicle while they conducted record checks, agents received an officer-safety alert indicating Muniz-Spry had previously brandished a knife at a law enforcement officer, according to the affidavit.

Now, Muniz-Spry doesn’t seem to be a master criminal with deep connections in the criminal underworld. He’s some punk who got caught with a gun, tried to run away, and got shot by a Border Patrol agent for his troubles. That alone suggests he’s not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, and yet, he had a gun despite the universal background check law in place in Washington state.

Granted, it was a Hi Point, so some might argue that it wasn’t much of a gun, but it was a gun just the same. He couldn’t lawfully buy one, and yet he still had it.

We don’t know how he got it, but isn’t that kind of the point? I mean, this is a street-level felon who probably has an IQ that approaches room temperature in the early Spring, at best, and he doesn’t seem to have had all that much trouble getting a gun. So what good do universal background checks do, if their purpose is, in fact, to keep guns out of the hands of felons?

The short answer is that they do nothing. Nothing at all.

But that didn’t stop the anti-gunners from demanding the next thing, nor will they ever acknowledge the failure of their policies.

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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