Good news re: Gary Tudesko expulsion
Good news. 17 year old Gary Tudesko had been expelled from Willows High School in California, after he went duck hunting, then on to class, and left his shotgun locked in a vehicle parked off campus. NRA got Chuck Michel's firm to serve as his advocate, and today the Glenn County Board of Education reversed the expulsion order.
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Phillip Dominguez case over
Memo here. He drove to pick up a friend at Los Angeles International Airport; they were going to a shooting range so he had plenty of arms and ammo. A random search found them, and he was charged with eight felonies, and portrayed in press releases as a terrorism suspect. Ultimately he plead to misdemeanor CCW, and the guns were returned.
Glad I live in Arizona. Here, if police found you with what he had, they'd think it was really cool and maybe ask to come along.
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Another case of no tolerance no brains
A two-inch pocketknife is found in a student's locked car, so the school suspends him for five days, then increases that to twenty.
Via Instapundit.
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ROTC cadet suspended for having drill props
Story here. She had several fake guns used at drill, made of wood and duct tape. The school invoked a Colorado law that defines dangerous weapons as "a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or a firearm facsimile that could reasonably be mistaken for an actual firearm."
Link taken from David Codrea's Examiner report.
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Update on Phillip Dominguez case
Sensibly Progressive has update. I blogged about his case a few days ago -- Mr. Dominguez is a law-abiding construction company owner, who owned a registered "assault rifle," which in California he could legally take from his house to a shooting range. He was going shooting with a friend who was arriving by plane, and was arrested at the airport on the apparently claim that by stopping at the airport in the middle of that drive he broke the law.
The update notes that they followed with a SWAT raid on his house and seizure of all his (legal) firearms, and those of his family.
Fortunately, he's got some first rate firearm attorneys. If you'd like to contribute to his defense, click here.
UPDATE: Mr. Dominguez writes:
Thank you for all of your support, I can't wait to tell all of you the whole story and all that my family has been through and all that I have learned over the past few weeks.
It may shock you to learn just what your tax dollars are doing for you, and what lengths some will go to force their agendas, legal or not.
My lawyer will prepare a statement and it will be made available after Feb 6th.
Phil Dominguez
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Dominquez case in CA
Sensibly Progressive has the story. Earlier post here.
Basically, Mr. Dominguez is a law abiding fellow who had the misfortune to live in California (everything he was doing would be completely legal in AZ). On the way to a shooting range, he stopped at the LA airport to pick up a friend who would go to the range with him. He had his firearms and ammo in locked cases in a locked cover to his pickup's bed. Airport security pulled him over for an inspection. All his guns were legal, including an assault rifle which he had registered in accord with the law.
But he was charged with a felony, anyway, because the CA law on assault rifles says they may be transported only between specific locations. Home to shooting range is OK, BUT the prosecution contends that since he stopped at the airport on the way to the range, his is guilty of felony transportation. They also seized and may forfeit his truck.
Sensibly Progressive also notes the media coverage, portraying him as a "knucklehead: who brought an "arsenal" to an airport.
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Arrest in Chicago
Pretty disgusting. Icarry.org has set up a defense fund.
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Author arrested in MA
Story in the DC Examiner. Apparently police responded to the tripping of his burglar alarm, wound up searching his house, and now the 67 year old author faces up to ten years in the slammer because (1) his permit had expired and (2) he had an AR-15 and several magazines.
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4th grader arrested
A 10 year old has been arrested on felony weapons charges in Orlando -- for eating lunch with a knife.
One more proof that no tolerance = no brains.
Hat tip to reader Bill Bailey....
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A woman, a batterer and a gun
In the San Fran Chronicle, Joan Ryan has a piece on a spousal battery victim, in hiding from her ex, who got caught carrying illegally and wound up serving time (and losing the right to possess a firearm, even in her house).
"She now has no protection. (I wonder whether San Francisco voters considered domestic violence situations when they voted in November to ban all handguns and what consequences women like Rebecca might pay.)"
[Hat tip to Budd Shroeder]