Posted on 12/30/2014 10:13:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A year ago this New Year’s Eve, John Filippidis of Florida was driving south with his family on Interstate 95 when the Maryland Transportation Authority Police pulled over his black Ford Expedition and proceeded to raid it while his twins, wife and daughter looked on — separated in the back seats of different police cruisers.
The officers were searching for Mr. Filippidis‘ Florida-licensed, palm-size Kel-Tec .38 semi-automatic handgun, which he left at home locked in his safe. (Maryland does not recognize handgun permits issued by other states.)
When the search turned up nothing, Mr. Filippidis, 51, was allowed to go and was issued only a speeding warning.
The incident gained national attention. Mr. Filippidis went on multiple radio programs and described in detail how scared and outraged he and his family were. He wondered: How did the police know he was licensed for concealed carry, and what right did they have to search through his personal items on the side of the busy interstate filled with holiday travelers on that 10-degree day?
“My wife’s hysterical, shaking and crying,” Mr. Filippidis recalled in an interview with The Washington Times. “I don’t have a criminal record. I own a business. I’m a family man, and I tried to explain that to [the officer]. But he had a bad attitude, didn’t want to hear my story. He just wanted to find that gun and take me away from my family. That was his goal, but he couldn’t do it, because I didn’t have a gun, like I told him.”
Mr. Filippidis‘ case earned the support of Second Amendment advocates and subsequent apologies from the MDTA. But an internal police review concluded his stop and search were lawful and did not violate police protocols.
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They are heroes when the thwart terrorism by connecting the dots.
But they are pigs when they hassle innocent civilians suspecting of exercising their rights under the 2nd.
Or perhaps you have a better animal analogy?
Have you tried reading them aloud into a tape recorder and playing them backwards? Lotta subliminal stuff in there.
yep
men and women
i`m still mad at ya for shavin my head
I had more bandaids than a 1923
firestone tire
.38 can also be .38 ACP one of the early cartridges for “full size” automatics
from wiki
The .38 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) also known as the .38 Auto was introduced at the turn of the 20th century for the Browning designed Colt M1900. The cartridge headspaces on the rim.[2] It had first been used in Colt’s Model 1897 prototype, which he did not produce. The metric designation for the round is 9×23mmSR (SR—Semi Rimmed) (not to be confused with the modern 9×23mm Winchester or the .380 ACP).
It also works in Spanish Astra 400’s
but to my knowledge keltek only makes a .380 / 9Kurz / 9x17 or 9x19/9Nato guns not a .38 ACP.. but we should not expect the 4th estate to do more than say 30 seconds of research on such things.
I actually haven't thought out that part. But we do have the CFR that has laws and regulations ad nausium, so if the SCOTUS simply said that the 2A means exactly what it says, and that the states are proscribed from any legislation that infringes the 2A I don't see it as a particularly difficult thing to legislate. But the SCOTUS can't keep picking at the 2A like a scab. They need to provide a “final answer,” and then drag any recalcitrant states or in the case of a city Washington DC or Chicago in front of them and tell them to cease and desist with any and all “work around legislation” that has as it's intended goal, the flauting of the Court's decision.
So your telling us you have missed it twice now? You need some range time, FRiend.
the SCOTUS have actually been very supportive of the 2A in their decisions over the last couple of years.
Maryland the gulag state bump for later..
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Didn’t say I missed it
Pee’d on it
there is one a mile from here
What's in the law to actually stop states from breaking the Constitution?
Like DC and open carry that was ruled on, they just ignored the ruling
and reinvented a new law.
“What’s in the law to actually stop states from breaking the Constitution?
Like DC and open carry that was ruled on, they just ignored the ruling
and reinvented a new law.”
That’s the same concern that I have. These local governments just play gotcha with any Constitutional Law with which they disagree, and like you, I am left wondering what recourse there is. I suppose at the end of the day, they could be held in contempt of court, but I’ve never heard of the SCOTUS sending anyone to jail. Then again, the SCOTUS needs a definitive 2A case ( I am hoping Peruta v. San Diego makes it there soon because the majority opinion or the 9th Circuit panel that has heard the case has done a masterful job of laying out what could be the case that forces the SCOTUS to finally rule completely that the 2A is an individual right that isn’t subject to much if any regulation (excepting felons and the mentally ill)). (if you haven’t read it, you should)
Once you have a complete ruling, then it’s enforcement needs to be forceful. It needs to be comprehensive enough that the $hitball RATs can’t diddle it, and if they try, they need to go to jail. If we can’t fix the Second Amendment, what’s next, the First? The RATs would dearly like to limit free speech too.
GO
NOW
Lost in an unfortunate boating accident?
I think the founders DID issue a National carry permit. It says right to keep AND BARE arms shall not be infringed.
I’ve never seen anybody arrested for Treason for
ignoring the Constitution, but I would like to!
Well, if we did that we would have to arrest those who did so for violating the constitution and then arrest them, and then arrest them and then...
Yes, along with many of my other valuable possessions...
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