Saturday, January 10, 2009

What Law Was Broken?

It amazes me, the number of people in this nation who harbor misconceptions and irrational fears regarding private ownership of firearms. Consider, for a moment, how many times you've heard someone ask whether your guns are "licensed." Certainly there are some benighted places in this once free nation which require registration before their inmates can own a firearm, but most of the country follows the basic essence of the Second Amendment...keeping and bearing are not infringed.

How many folks could tell you the distinction in definition between an "assault" rifle, a semi-automatic and an automatic firearm? Have you ever heard a limp-wristed liberal twit ask, "how many guns do you really need?" The answer is properly, "as many as I want."

Read this item and see what you think:

Enforcement Hysteria

How much can you trust a federal agency that can't count accurately with regard to how many firearms were seized? They apparently find a gun in a box, then assume that all other boxes also hold a gun. Maybe the guy should file for return of all 37 originally claimed weapons rather than the actual 16 involved?

Notice that only one weapon was loaded. That would mean all of the rest were in a reasonable condition for transportation.

Ask some questions about the incident. Was the weapon concealed on his person in violation of California law? Or was it simply in the vehicle as allowed by law? Was he inside or attempting to get inside the security zone? Or, was he simply on airport parking area property picking someone up with whatever he happened to have in his vehicle at the time?

I'd really like to know what this guy did and why the Feds opened up what was in his truck in the first place. Was there any probable cause involved, or is the Fourth Amendment as defunct in the People's Republic of Kalifornia as the Second?

"Papers, pleeze. You must show your papers..."

2 comments:

Carter Kaplan said...
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Anonymous said...

Well, how about that. I wonder what he was doing with all that gear? But I also wonder about the checkpoints? I think I am more afraid of the latter, especially considering all the resources that are put into checkpoints while the illegals are suffered to stream on in....

Calling semi-automatic rifles "assault weapons" is a great misnomer, and of course loaded politically against the 2nd Am. Law-abiding gun owners should avoid the phrase.

My sense is a bolt-action .30-06 with a good scope could be a far more dangerous weapon than an AR, and a nut with a lever-action .22 could make the evening news just as easily as a psycho with an "assault rifle."