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Gun control in Belize
An editorial from a Belize newspaper.
"The gun and ammunition laws were passed, our legislators said, to make it difficult for our gangs to obtain the guns and bullets they need to rob law-abiding citizens and to murder each other. These laws were first introduced about twenty years ago, and I think they have been amended once or twice. Today, all of us Belizeans know that these are laws which are abysmal failures, if we are to judge failure or success on the basis of the original intent of the laws.
What the guns laws have succeeded in doing is to intimidate and victimize innocent citizens who live in certain targeted neighborhoods. The laws are draconian, and they have contributed to the ever-growing sense in the Belizean people that we are not in control of our own destiny."
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"The evidence is the weed law and the evidence is the gun law. These are not Belizean laws. These are oppressive laws. The PUDP are in bed with white supremacy. Power to the people."
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Prosecutors must have priorities
And we now know those of New Jersey District Attorney Jim McClain. NJ has a diversion program for first offenders, which enables them to have their charges dismissed if they stay out of trouble for a time.
McClain earlier allowed diversion in the case of Ray Rice, who was accused of having beaten his wife unconscious before dragging her out of an elevator. But he denied it in the case of Shaneen Allen, a 27 year old mother, who mistakenly thought that New Jersey recognized her Pennsylvania license to carry, and now faces a 3.5 year mandatory minimum sentence. Rice was, however, a sports star, and we all know they don't have to follow the law.
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NJ law: young mother facing 3 years' hard time
Shaneen Allen, a 27 year old mother of two, carried a pistol and a PA permit in her car -- but she wound up being stopped in NJ. Now she's looking at three years mandatory, no probation or parole.
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Nikki Goeser story to be televised
It's on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 9PM EST, on Investigation Discovery TV. She has a book out, Denied A Chance: How Gun Control Helped a Stalker Murder my Husband which tells her story. She had a CCW permit, but she and her husband dined in a restaurant that served alcohol, a "gun free zone" in their State. She left her gun in the car ... and her husband was murdered while they dined.
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Activist who pushed for making gun possession on school grounds a felony, arrested on felony charges of doing just that
Story here. Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it. Via Instapundit.
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DC going to trial over one cartridge
... and a misfired one, at that. Reporter David Gregory was given a walk on possessing an illegal magazine, but businessman Mark Witaschek is being tried on possession of one shotgun shell (which had proven to be a dud) in his house.
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Civil rights abuse in MA
It sounds as if the Quincy MA police have quite a racket going. Seize guns, take no legal action regarding them, but sell them anyway.
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Veteran attacked in Washington DC
He opens the door to find guns pointed at his head. He comes outside as commanded, then watches them kick in his door and vandalize his apartment, slicing up his luggage, breaking stuff and throwing it on the floor.
Well, that's the DC police department for you.
I'm reminded of the line from The Wild Bunch, where they enter a Mexican town to find houses burning, corpses in the street, and weeping widows. "Villa's men did this to you?" "Oh, no, senor, it was our Federales. If it had been Villa, it would have been much worse."
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D.C. holding onto serviceman's guns
The Washington Times has the story. While transporting his guns interstate (and thus likely within the protections of the Firearm Owners' Protection Act), he stopped at Walter Reed, inside DC. The story says he plead to a misdemeanor that was later dismissed, which sounds like pretrial diversion. But DC refuses to return his guns.
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Good fellow moves to Mass., complies with gun laws, winds up sentenced to a year
Meet Clint Cornelius. He decides to move to Northampton, MA. He researches MA gun laws, and notes that a person moving there has sixty days to register guns and comply with its laws (which also restrict ammunition). He transports his three firearms in accord with MA law.
But he didn't realize that MA also has a ban on large capacity magazines, and that is NOT subject to the sixty day window. The firearms are, the ammo is, but magazines are not. So he winds up serving a year in jail for having three, unloaded, pieces of metal. And he only got that by taking a plea -- if convicted of having the pieces of metal, he'd have gotten a mandatory minimum of 2.5 years in prison!
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LEO seeks to reverse "no guns in parks" conviction
Story here. The quirk about DC area roads is that many are technically elongated national parks, so before the law was changed people could wind up charged with illegally having a gun in a park when they'd just seen it as driving down a highway in Virginia or Maryland, while in full compliance with State law.
Hat tip to XD Owner....
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A lesson about visiting DC....
If you come to DC with handguns in the car, don't honestly answer if the hotel staff asks if you have a gun. Fortunately, charges were dropped.
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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]