Posted on 04/09/2013 8:37:38 AM PDT by JohnPierce
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I would like for you to meet Beth Ferrizzi of Fargo North Dakota. She is an average American women who considers herself a law-abiding and even upstanding citizen. She is married to Air Force Master Sergeant Joe Ferrizzi and they are expecting their second child.
Joe, who is deployed to Honduras serving his country, was recently able to meet Beth and their 6 year old daughter in Pennsylvania for a family visit. He also wanted to show her the Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up. It was to be a happy family reunion between a soldier and his girl. What could be more American than that?
But now, she has an arrest record and is facing a felony charge that could imprison her for up to 15 years.
How could this happen in a supposedly ‘free’ country?
It is simple really. Beth took her husband’s firearm with her when she flew to meet him. He has a North Dakota carry permit which is also recognized in Pennsylvania and he wanted to have it for personal protection while they were visiting.
However, her fatal decision was made when she booked her return flight from New York’s La Guardia Airport.
For those who haven’t figured it out yet, for all intents and purposes, you leave America when you enter New York.
Despite going out of her way to insure that she understood the complex process of legally transporting a firearm on a airplane, she ran afoul of New York’s soviet-style web of draconian gun laws and was arrested, handcuffed, separated from her 6 year old daughter, and kept overnight in a New York City jail before finally making her way back to Fargo.
And despite what I suspect is a burning desire to never again enter the state of New York, she is scheduled for a hearing on the case just about the time that her baby is due.
Surely this is a mistake? “No” says Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown. Furthermore, Brown has no sympathy for Beth, or any other person who enters the gulag once known as New York expecting that the Constitution is still in effect. His comment?
“For anyone who hasn’t gotten the message, let me be crystal clear. You cannot bring an unlicensed weapon – loaded or unloaded – into this county or this city. And if you do, you will be arrested and face felony charges … Unless you have a New York City license to carry, leave your gun at home.”
So when you next hear a Democrat claiming that no one wants to take away your guns or deprive you of the right to protect yourself … just think of the veteran’s pregnant wife and know it for the damnable lie that it is.
Only traveled into NY once, back in 2000. I have no plans ever to do so again.
I was there in 1999 for work and haven’t been back since nor do I plan to. What a cesspit!
Meanwhile the yutes and gangbangers shoot it out nightly at the OK Corral in Queens and Brooklyn with impunity.
I really need to quit reading articles like this. My blood pressure just shot through the roof.
There really is no common sense anymore is there. It’s all about an Agenda and to heck with anyone that gets in the way.
On the other hand this DA is now on someone’s “Little List of people who will never be missed” I can guarantee that one. Ref: The Mikado, (Gilbert and Sullivan) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHxh2NOJIw
Where the hell is the NRA on thjis issue? Why the3 he3ll haven’t they put together ads to blanket the airwaves showign how 1000’s of people are SAVED by havign ebnough ammo to deal with the htreats of home invasions, rapes, attempted murders etc? The NRA shoyudl have a group of women and children who were SAVED by multi shot rounds and brign htem before congress to recoutn their horrible stories of survival and exclaim to thsoe dolts in washington that takign away their right to own enough rounds in a clip woudl have meant their certain death-
NRA needs an effective leader- one who will fight tooth and nail agaisnt the consitution ignoring left-
So, if geography serves, there are only a few ways to visit New England if one doesn’t fly. I can book an around the world voyage from CA to Boston heading west. I can go through a foreign Nation requiring a US Passport, but I cannot access New England by car without going through damnable New York. Oh I guess I could book some kind of boat from somewhere USA to Boston.
I was there back around 61 or 62, stuck there for 3 weeks. Never again!
I drove clear across the country to visit New England back in 1977. Of course had to drive through New York. Coming from out West, I was struck by how controlled everything seemed; you couldn’t just take an exit off the turnpike to eat, you were forced to stay on for miles and miles and eat at official “New York State Transit Authority” eating places along the way. I have no desire to ever return to that state.
These incidents in NY are getting tiresome.
Why don’t these people, other than those who are committing planned civil disobedience, prior to exiting via DHS controlled airports, just ship their unloaded weapons back home via unmarked, undeclared, anonymous overnight carrier BEFORE entering the forbidden zone?
Or, are there already laws in place making that too a reason to deprive one of liberty? Is shipping one’s own firearm to oneself a crime? Probably.
Yes, it is a crime. You can only ship a firearm to a FFL holder, not to yourself.
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