"Ve are looking for vere you keep your nuclear wessels. Nu-Cle-Ar Wessels."
Posted on 09/05/2008 10:41:15 AM PDT by txroadkill
Probably a Keith Olbermann disciple.
Seems like puppy might alert if the Jeep had driven over freshly fertilized grass, or if another dog had whizzed on the tires. That said, it wouldn’t take a rocket surgeon to do a walk-around of a Jeep, inspecting the photons that bounced off of it, to find something suspicious.
A rifle case is a rifle case. They hold rifles.
What’s his DUmmie screen name?
Good point.
But that intersection is within close enough proximity to a federal building that I’m fairly certain that the normal law is superseded by special anti-terrorism legislation/procedures within a certain number of feet of such bldgs., if not the already highly restrictive D.C. gun laws.
“They hold rifles.”
Except when they’re empty.
Did they find a rifle and did the article say the rifle was not in the rifle case?
"Ve are looking for vere you keep your nuclear wessels. Nu-Cle-Ar Wessels."
These days, having Alaska plates on your vehicle is probable cause. ;-)
That’s not my point, which was that a rifle case should not have given probable cause for a search, because it could be empty, unless it obviously was not. And this I don’t know, not knowing if it was a hard case, a well-padded soft case, or a cheap soft case.
People do carry around empty cases. Just last week I bought one for my 10/22. Covered it with a towel on my way home because I was picking up my boys at their school and didn’t want anyone to freak out. I may live in Texas, but it’s sissy Austin...
Probable cause could have been the dog, or maybe the guy gave permission for a search. But based on the little bit of law I know, I don’t believe a rifle case that didn’t obviously contain a rifle would give probable cause for a search.
Well,,, it is DC! You probably have to have it disassembled, and unavailable, locked in the trunk
Let me guess......the guy was a Muslim
hahahahha!
I believe within a certain number of feet of a federal building (especially on Capitol Hill and other obvious terrorism targets) special legislation supersedes normal 4th Amendment provisions re: search & siezure—making unusual zeal on the part of police/security well within the limits of “reasonable.”
Was it David Ayers?
Please tell me this is the capital of Iraq....... Doh!!!
LOL!
I believe it is illegal for non-residents or unlicensed residents outside their homes to possess firearms in DC, even in transport. If you are traveling through the city on your way to a range or hunting and have evidence of that, they generally don’t do anything unless you stop or breakdown in the city. I believe the only other exception is residents transporting guns to and from their homes to be registered. In any case, the guns have to be broken down and in locked cases in the trunk or out of reach of the driver in the case of trucks and SUV’s. Ammo must be kept in a separate container from the weapons.
> I believe it is illegal for non-residents or unlicensed residents outside their homes to possess firearms in DC, even in transport <
Not exactly correct. Federal law trumps District law in the case of a non-resident driving thru DC on an interstate journey.
Such a non-resident may legally transport firearms thru the District, as long as:
1. The traveler doesn’t stay in the District more than 24 hours.
2. Each transported firearm is in a locked container and is stowed in the vehicle’s trunk (or elsewhere out of sight if the vehicle lacks a trunk).
3. The traveler is legally entitled to possess the firearm(s) in question both at the beginning and ending points of his interstate journey.
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