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I’m a public defender. I had a client last year who had taken his antique M1 carbine to a gunsmith to get an estimate on some work. Later that day he stopped by the school to pick up his cousin. He was parked in the long driveway in front of the school waiting for his cousin to come out, with the gun laying in his backseat. A passerby saw it and called the cops. He was arrested and charged with a felony even though he had no bullets or even any clips. When I showed the prosecutor a letter from the gunsmith saying the guy had actually brought the gun in that morning for an estimate, the prosecutor was decent enough to work the charge down to a misdemeanor, but this man still had to pay over a grand in fines and costs and do ten days of community service. I remember being in high school in the early eighties and it was nothing to see rifles and shotguns in gun racks in students’ trucks.

Do you know if there have been any attempts to get that stupid law (no guns within such a distance from a school) a Supreme Court hearing? I don't think there's any way it would pass muster.

Good work, btw. I know it's your job, but it sounds like you did well helping this guy.

I refinished the stock on my 12 gauge shotgun in my wood shop class. Instructor helped with fitting the stock to the gun. I miss the good ole times, sometimes.

That’s what a trunk is for, he used poor judgement IMHO. I put my gun in the glove box, park across the street from the school and walk in to pick him up. I hate being unarmed in that situation but it’s better that pain in the ass than the one Bubba would give me at night while we share a jail cell.