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Posted on 01/11/2009 10:44:48 AM PST by Beaten Valve
The man arrested at Los Angeles International Airport with a trunk full of guns and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition said Saturday that he is a law-abiding weapons enthusiast who had no idea he might be breaking the law.
A day after he was arrested for suspicion of felony transportation of an assault rifle, Phillip Dominguez said he's confident he'll be exonerated.
"Our Second Amendment rights are being trampled in the name of law enforcement," Dominguez said. "I'm a law-abiding, taxpaying gun enthusiast. I have no felonies - up until now."
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That's the deal with “right to carry” licenses, the guys who write the laws know who their opponents are and what district they vote in.
“Making laws that ban possession in any number of areas surrounding schools etc is Unconstitutional.”
I agree, but the Heller decision gives the antis some wiggle room here. We need another case and better decision.
He has done nothing WRONG! Let my people GO!
This brings up an interesting point. Could this law be challenged on the grounds that it violates the implicit "right to travel" based on First Amendment case law?
Shows how successful the conditioning has been, doesn't it?
It sure does.
Given that the weapons and firearms were all secured in locked gun transport cases, he would have been perfectly entitled to bring them all INTO THE TERMINAL to check them into baggage, "if" he had been going to the airport to fly, rather than the pick up an arriving passenger.
This whole fiasco is simply due to ignorant, out of control police who are anti-gun and pushing an anti-gun agenda.
We’ve discussed this in prior posts.
Why did he get his car searched?
I have NEVER been asked to open my trunk as I parked at the airport.
That's why big game hunters all drive to Montana every year. What an idiot.
Buddies and I travel to handgun matches all over America by plane with our guns with no problems. Some hassles perhaps, but no arrests.
Yes, I'm a shaking in my boots liberal, a commie and a wuss. I'm a Benefactor member of the NRA, have a CHL and support several other pro-gun institutions.
That being said, you're just another blowhard with delusions of grandeur, if you actually supported gun rights you would still be in the NRA, the JPFO, the GOA or some other group that actually does fight for gun owners rights. Instead you hide in anonymity on a forum and bluster about what a billy bad ass you are. Have a nice day.
No, not if it's allowed in the vehicle. If you try to walk into the terminal all bets are off.....you know it as well as I.
I'm very surprised by this thread. We're not talking about some guy leaving his concealed weapon in a glove box, we're talking about someone that lugged a toolbox full of expensive weapons to an airport, with ammo and then wondering why there might be a problem. In this day in age he is either, naive, stupid or both. Hell, I can't drive onto my employers secured property with a weapon, unloaded or not. Is it right no. Is it legal to do so anyway....ask the hunters in Oklahoma that were all fired for bringing their hunting rifles to work.
Yea, and when a few folks don't turn in their "ugly black guns", and suffer BATFE raids, after Pelosi, Reid and B. Hussein ban them, will you say the same thing? "It will be used against us?"
The laws in CA are blatant violations of the Right to Keep and Bear arms, which we are "endowed by our Creator", and which is supposed to be protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Oh please, you can walk right up to the baggage check counter with unloaded and cased firearms, check them with your baggage, and then pick them up at baggage claim at the other end of your flight.
The only special handling they get is a hand inspection, since the nitrate sniffers are quite likely to go off on a gun case, wether there is currently a gun in them or not. Residue you know.
Christmas after 9-11(I think, might have been 2002), I put our nephew on a flight in Omaha, headed for the left coast to visit his folks, he also transported two scoped bolt action "sniper rifles", which his Dad has left with his Grandparents, in a double rifle case. No problem, very little extra bother. We watched 'em like hawks as they inspected that case though. (He transported the bolts in his checked bag, but that wasn't really necessary).
Not what he wrote. He wrote "none of *our* business". He wasn't being rude to you, he was making a statement about the nosiness of The Law.
No, he had the temerity to set foot in Kalifornistan with them.
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