AP Claims Federal Charges for Transporting Rifle from Pennsylvania to Connecticut

Gun Watch ^ | 10 January, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[Vermont Lt]

Hey redneck...

I wrote that I didn’t agree with the laws. But when you want to take on the legal systems in MA and CT, I am right behind ya. I did some work in the prison system. I don’t want to live there.

So, until I can move, I am stuck here. So go yell at someone else. Or go to Cambridge and walk around with your AR15 on Harvard Yard.

[KosmicKitty]

And another aside - UNH faculty, Staff & students collected money over the Holidays for the woman who called the cops because she's homeless.

http://www.wtnh.com/news/new-haven-cty/23k-donated-for-caller-who-warned-of-conn-gunman_23652411_

[OneWingedShark]

This guy had a fully loaded, illegal rifle (in Ct) sitting on the back floor of his car.
On or near a college campus.
This kid is an idiot.

So then are you saying that traveling on an interstate, or other road, that passes next to a college campus is an arrestable offense?
Or are you saying that college campuses are legitimately gun-free zones?
Or are you saying that it's stupid to exercise the right to keep and bear arms?

[Vermont Lt]

Where the hell do you get that from.

This clown had a loaded, unsecured rifle on the floor of his car.

That is against the law. You can spout out all of the patriot bullshit you want. It doesn’t matter whether you or I like the law, it’s the law. And if he had a gun license in CT he KNEW that was the law. And, you know what...it’s not safe.

This kid is an idiot. You and I both would not leave a loaded rifle, in plain view on the floor of your car. It’s just stupid.

Drawing any other conclusions about what I think is stupid too. I have not voiced an opinion other that his being stupid. And just because you don’t agree with a law, doesn’t make it less of a law.

[OneWingedShark]

This clown had a loaded, unsecured rifle on the floor of his car.
That is against the law. You can spout out all of the patriot bullshit you want. It doesn’t matter whether you or I like the law, it’s the law.

That's not quite true; just because something is presented as law does not mean it is law.
CT's Constitution says this:

ART. 1^st, SEC. 15. — Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.

How can one bear arms if he is prohibited from transporting them? Moreover, how can one defend himself [or the state] if such transport is illegal?

And if he had a gun license in CT he KNEW that was the law. And, you know what...it’s not safe.

Who said anything about safe? We're talking about legal/illegal.

This kid is an idiot. You and I both would not leave a loaded rifle, in plain view on the floor of your car. It’s just stupid.

You've never seen the floor of my car; for all you know I could have landmines, firearms, maybe even a USN Battleship hiding in that mess.
(It's bigger on the inside, I swear.)

[Vermont Lt]

Ok.

Having been in a CT carry class, I can tell you that there are several laws regarding the proper transports of firearms in CT.

Aside from that, you are arguing to make yourselve feel smart. I will not oblige. I don’t care about what you think.