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Man traveling from Texas to Maine with guns in his car gets stopped in New Jersey. Sentenced to five years. I thought this sort of thing would be prevented by FOPA.
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November 23rd, 2011 at 10:56 am
I might be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure that FOPA protects you only if the guns are unloaded and either secured in a locked trunk or, in the case of a station wagon or SUV-type vehicle without a trunk, in locked cases such that they are inaccessible from the driver’s seat.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:06 am
This guy certainly didn’t help his cause at all. Show up for your court hearings. Judges have big egos.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:10 am
Hmmm… He had a loaded handgun and was parked behind a bank. Somehow I think this guy had never heard of FOPA, and even if he had probably didn’t care too much for it.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:16 am
Tam is right about FOPA from what I can tell.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:22 am
Hard to tell from the article whether the guns were really accessible by the driver, or whether that is just what the police report said, after the officers consulted with the DA about how to write the report.
But – there is no valid reason to sleep in NJ (or DC, or Maryland, or NY, or Massachussets, or Philadelphia) if you are driving from Texas to Maine. Sleeping in your car in a private parking lot is inviting police interest. Richmond VA to Bangor Maine is only 14 to 16 hours of driving.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:47 am
This guy is a poster child for bad decision making if you believe everything in the article.
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:26 pm
This past summer, Zercool and I added an extra hour to our travel time to avoid Massachusetts on our way to NorthEast Blogshoot, just in case we got stopped on the Mass. Pike by the PoPo.
I’m going with Tam. In Ohio, unless you have a CHP, guns are in one case, ammo and mags in another, unless you have a rack in a Pickup’s Rear Window, with the action open. That seems to have been the Standard for the last few decades.
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Thats what happens when you travel out of the country….
November 23rd, 2011 at 4:28 pm
We’re arguing over the details of the law, and what the guy should have done;
“That black guy should have known better than to talk to a white girl in public, right out in the open like that!”
How about simply stating that here we have yet another political prisoner?
November 23rd, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Lyle, + +! Now let’s see if everyone’s darling supersized faux-conservative Guv’ner Christie will commute his sentence or pardon him….
OK, betting window’s closed, and tallying up, I have exactly ZERO bets on Christie doing that.
November 23rd, 2011 at 6:01 pm
@dustydog – Not only that, but he was only 20 mins from the PA border, the gun loving part of PA. Once across the Delaware River, the most he would’ve likely gotten was a bum’s rush out of the bank parking lot and citation for having them exposed.
November 23rd, 2011 at 6:42 pm
He’s from Texas, he probably assumed the laws in Jersey were just like the ones in Texas.
Shootin’ Buddy can elaborate on this concept.
November 23rd, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Did you see the last comment on that article? Oh yeah, a real Brady shill there.
I think something’s amiss here. But I suppose it’s possible some people aren’t aware of Brady states.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 pm
When I drove from Texas to Vermont and New Hampshire (LFI-1 course) I specificly made sure I had enough gas in Pennsylvania and drove right through Massachusetts and New York. I had better sense than going through New Jersey in any shape or form.
And yes my guns were locked in the trunk per the rules.
November 24th, 2011 at 2:59 am
All of the states in that gun-grabbing corner need to be invaded, and then forcibly regime changed.
We need to free the slaves.