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Man with guns at LAX decries arrest
Daily Breeze ^ | Jan 10, 2009 | Robert Jablon, AP

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: airportsecurity; assaultweapons; bang; banglist; donutwatch; guns; lax; lp
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To: mylife

Cali has nice scenery, but that is it! I don’t miss anything except the pretty coastline.


41 posted on 01/11/2009 11:21:35 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mylife

Exactly, one .22 and ten rounds. My God, what is the deal with these people. We can only hope that another earthquake splits off the San Andreas fault and slides the left coast under the PACIFIC OCEAN.


42 posted on 01/11/2009 11:22:03 AM PST by Concho (Bitterly Clinging to Guns and Religion)
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To: cake_crumb

Did you read the article? Go read it and then make your statements and ask your questions......


43 posted on 01/11/2009 11:22:14 AM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: SENTINEL

“I don’t see the problem, he didn’t try to take them into the terminal or board an aircraft with them.”

Under Federal Law one cannot take a firearm past the security stations.

Now California or some other sub-unit of government may have their own rules, such as was contested in Atlanta.

That aside, Dominguez was charged not with the above but of not directly going to the range and detouring to the airport.

Many anti-second amendment ares have a rule stating the shooter must go directly to the range with no stops.


44 posted on 01/11/2009 11:23:35 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (CPA, MBA needs a job)
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To: Travis McGee

I loved SoCal back when there were still working ranches and common sense.

I used to camp, dirt bike and shoot EVERY weekend


45 posted on 01/11/2009 11:24:18 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Concho

Shoot! you mean I cant even fully load a marlin 60 .22 cal rifle?!!

Oh Noz!


46 posted on 01/11/2009 11:25:49 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ScreamingFist
A thousand rounds of ammo sounds like a lot, but its not. I have no arsenal, but grab an ammo can to head to the range, I'm probably carrying 6 bricks of .22s, eight clips of 7.62x39, and 400 rounds of 9mm. That would be 1080 rounds. I don't separate my ammo to go to the range.

Ten to one that if the police were profiling like they should be, this fine upstanding man would have never been searched ;-)

47 posted on 01/11/2009 11:26:13 AM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: SENTINEL

But, he was going to enter airport property with them and that is prohibited.


48 posted on 01/11/2009 11:26:25 AM PST by HollyB
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To: ScreamingFist

Come to think of it, I’ve carried three guns and well over 100 rounds of ammo directly into an airport. Hundreds of people do this daily. Its known as a hunting trip.


49 posted on 01/11/2009 11:27:55 AM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: Travis McGee
At least half a dozen times since Thanksgiving, Domin- guez said he made similar stops at the airport carrying his guns and never saw a police checkpoint.

I don't know Travis, the guy was a "construction contractor" and has been lugging his armory around for months, according to the article. It doesn't smell right.

50 posted on 01/11/2009 11:28:11 AM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: HollyB

BS


51 posted on 01/11/2009 11:28:23 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Beaten Valve

Trunk???

Last I heard, pickup trucks didn’t have trunks. Nice reporting Sparky.


52 posted on 01/11/2009 11:28:34 AM PST by Pylon (You are gonna spend 20 dollars every month on paper towels anyway)
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To: hinckley buzzard
I guess he didn't see the video of guns loading themselves up and climbing out of car trunks to prey on innocent citizens.

I just mean that people need to be paranoid when getting near an airport in general. Having even locked-up guns anywhere near an airport is a very bad idea.

53 posted on 01/11/2009 11:28:45 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
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To: SampleMan

A law-abiding citizen gets arrested for complying with a police officer’s request and winds up getting arrested.

Ask a Muslim to remove his turban to see if he’s hiding anything up there and you will be sure to get a lawsuit...


54 posted on 01/11/2009 11:30:02 AM PST by Beaten Valve
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To: DBrow
What about changing a flat? Cop pulls you over for an air freshener hanging from your interior RV mirror? Text messaging?

What's the CA definition of an "assault" weapon?

55 posted on 01/11/2009 11:30:06 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: HollyB
"But, he was going to enter airport property with them and that is prohibited."

No it isn't. Did you read the article?

56 posted on 01/11/2009 11:30:14 AM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: DBrow

I agree. With your entire post. I take patterns of behavior and project them into future patterns of behavior (I study terrorism) and yes, I can see where you’re coming from. In fact, the model is right there in Great Britain. Remember their Olympic shooting team and the problem they had with “exclusion zones”? Parliament Square, IIRC. And yes, it’ll gain support from a credulous public...it’s ‘for the children’, of course.


57 posted on 01/11/2009 11:30:22 AM PST by cake_crumb (Waiting for Dear Leader Obama to drop sea levels and heal Earth.)
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To: Concho

The stop was made at a checkpoint just before entering the airport property. There is no other place to go after the checkpoint, but the airport. In another article, I had read he was meeting someone at LAX.


58 posted on 01/11/2009 11:30:29 AM PST by HollyB
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To: cake_crumb

It’s not what’s stupid in your eyes, it’s what’s illegal under crazy laws that is important and at issue here.


59 posted on 01/11/2009 11:30:31 AM PST by DeLaine (We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. (Winston Churchill))
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To: freedumb2003

I’m not allowed to protect myself when I go pick someone up at the airport that is about 40 miles from my house and in a bad part of the city?


60 posted on 01/11/2009 11:32:17 AM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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