Anti-gun Mayor Charged With Carrying Concealed Guns

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[chessplayer]

"Anti-Gun Mayor Pleads Guilty to Firearms Charges"

(CNSNews.com) - "A Mississippi mayor has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor weapons charges after carrying a handgun on church and school property, and a gun rights group thinks now would be a good time for him to step down from Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG)."

"Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, a Democrat, pleaded guilty Nov. 15 to the misdemeanors to avoid felony charges that would have cost him his job."

[Bigh4u2]

My tag line says it all.

[WoofDog123]

this isn't even a fraction of the story with this mental-case mayor.

[FreedomPoster]

The local FReepers support this guy, say it's all political B.S.

[xcamel]

(D) - culture of hypocrisy

[HOTTIEBOY]

All the anti-gun congresscritter's security detail pack serious heat.

[ASA Vet]

Here's the thread from Wednesday

[WoofDog123]

i am from jackson. they are wrong or in denial. he is a nut. they have elected him as the charismatic tough-on-crime alternative to the dem. political machine and now have a mental case on their hands.

i suspect he is going to get removed from office as a result of the illegal midnight house-demolition trial.

[PeteB570]

Is he a member of MAIG and did he carry a gun illegally?

Yes? Yes?

[aligncare]

Mmmmm...delicious story. It seems democrats remain true to form: Safety and self defense for them...but not for us little people.

[chessplayer]

(D) - culture of hypocrisy

Yup. It boils down to,,,"I`m against hand guns, except for myself."

[Recon Dad]

Don't you just love it!

[DollyCali]

Do as I say, not as I do?

[tubebender]

Here is the anti-gunners daily dish of hypocrisy...

[metmom]

FYI and a laugh ping

[wastoute]

Libs don't want to deny firearm rights to everyone, just to the unwashed masses...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Another Demo-dick hypocrite. Nothing new here.

[Bigh4u2]

"ust to the unwashed masses..."

That would be you and me,right?

:0^

[KeyLargo]

As a side note:

Officers to be added to Jackson gun interdiction unit
By Kelli Esters
kesters@clarionledger.com

Additional Jackson Police Department officers will be added to the gun-interdiction team, Mayor Frank Melton announced today.

The current six-person team has confiscated 95weapons and arrested 56 convicted felons in possession of handguns since it hit the streets in April, according to records.

The city will create eight additional spaces for officers who want to transfer to the unit, Melton said.

The gun-interdiction team is the latest local component of the national program Project Safe Neighborhoods, which President Bush initiated in 2001 to deter gun crime by setting up networks among local, state and federal agencies and allowing them to share resources.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/61121036

[KeyLargo]

New York

A Bloomberg Anti-Gun Mayor Is Charged With Carrying Weapon

By JILL GARDINER
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 22, 2006


One of the members of Mayor Bloomberg's anti-gun coalition has pleaded to charges of illegally carrying a gun into a church, onto a college campus, and into a park.

The mayor of Jackson, Miss., Frank Melton, is one of more than 100 mayors in the coalition Mr. Bloomberg and the mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, created to push for stronger gun control laws.

But, last week, Mr. Melton — who according to news reports, carries firearms at all times and has a reputation for being tough on crime — pleaded no contest to carrying a concealed gun on the campus of a Mississippi College School of Law. He also pleaded guilty to carrying a gun into a church and into a park, also illegal under state law. The first was reduced from a felony charge to a misdemeanor; the latter two were misdemeanors.

Yesterday the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearm industry trade group, called on Mr. Bloomberg to insist on Mr. Melton's resignation.

"I write to inquire whether you, as co-founder of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition, will follow the lead of the firearms industry and demand Mayor Melton resign from public office?" the letter said. "Will you at least take the internal steps necessary to bar Mayor Melton from participating in your coalition?"

A spokeswoman for Mr. Bloomberg, Virginia Lam, called the National Shooting Sports Foundation letter a "publicity stunt."

"No one is above the law," Ms. Lam said, "but instead of mounting a public relations campaign to take down a tough opponent of illegal guns, the NSSF should be working with us to help keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals."

Ms. Lam declined to say if Mr. Bloomberg had talked to the Jackson mayor, but said Mr. Melton was still invited to a planned conference the coalition is holding in January in Washington, D.C.

" Mayor Melton has been an important member since the beginning and we look forward to his continued contribution to the coalition," she said via e-mail.

The Mississippi attorney general, James Hood, was considering having Mr. Melton resign as part of a plea agreement, but the final deal included six months of probation instead and a $1,500 fine.

Mr. Melton still faces a batch of felony charges centered on accusations that he ordered a group to destroy a duplex with sledgehammers because of the drug problem there. Calls to Mr. Melton's office were not returned yesterday.

http://www.nysun.com/article/43999