Posted on 06/04/2009 12:50:01 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
CONWAY, Ark. — A Muslim convert accused of fatally shooting an Army private and wounding another had previously been arrested on a weapons charge in Tennessee, but that charge eventually was dropped.
Police say Abdulhakim Muhammad, then known as Carlos Bledsoe, was arrested in February 2004 after a traffic stop in Nashville.
He was found with an SKS rifle inside in the car, with five rounds in a clip and one round in the rifle's chamber. Officers also found a sawed-off shotgun and another shotgun inside the car, as well as an ounce of marijuana, a switchblade knife and two shotgun shells on Muhammad.
Muhammad is accused of killing Army Pvt. William Andrew Long and wounding Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula in a shooting Monday at a Little Rock recruiting center. After the attack, police confiscated from Muhammad's truck an SKS rifle believed to be used in the shootings.
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more info on the terrorist on this thread
When guns are outlawed only outlaws will own guns.
The original reports I read said the killer had an assault weapon. None of the weapons listed in this article is an assault weapon.
What the hell!!! This guy has a round in the chamber and a lot of other weapons on his possession? Why were the charges dropped? I really smell a rat here. Or a friend of obama.
The article also said that he planned to sell the weapons to some other man who was in the car (but ran away and wasn’t caught). That’s not a crime?
I suspect that if an older white guy had been arrested with these things, particularly planning to sell them to somebody else, believe me, he’d still be in jail.
Including a sawed off shotgun!
This is about a prior arrest the terrorist had in 2004. While none of the weapons listed are assault weapons (whatever that may be), one may be illegal if under Federal law if it was sawed-off under 18" for the barrel or 26"(ish) overall.
Plus, this guy had marijuana on his possession. They don't have any good reason why he wasn't prosecuted.
Oops. Sorry. I missed that. I thought they were describing the weapons he had with him when he was arrested for the murder.
Probably for the same reason they let the Black panthers walk who violeted people’s rights by threatening them at a polling station.
Oh. Mine’s no more “deadly” than any other .30 caliber semi-automatic rifle, and less “deadly” than some. I wonder why it is considered an “assult weapon”
Damn pot possessor. If they had just executed him back then, nothing bad would have happened. Right?
Well, considering that he probably shot these two soldiers with a weapon that should have been confiscated as a result of the conviction that they would have surely gotten had they pursued the charges, maybe this two young men would be alive.
I'm not sure where you live, but where I live it's people are usually up to no good when they have weapons, illegal loaded and secured while in possession of illegal drugs when operating a motor vehicle. It sounds like you think that's fine. Let me know how that works out in your neighborhood. I'll take a pass for my neighborhood.
You want to smoke weed. Great. But keep it out of your car and keep it away from your loaded weapons.
Plus, this guy had marijuana on his possession.
Damn pot possessor. If they had just executed him back then, nothing bad would have happened. Right?
Actually, I believe the point is that possession of marijuana, in addition to possible weapons violations (I don’t know the law in Tennessee) made the lack of arrest/charges inexplicable. Why don’t you just fire one up and become comatose again.
For a white guy it is. 10 years in the pen.
No one probably told them.
60 Minutes, of all places, did a story last year about the DC gun laws. It was surprisingly balanced. They pointed out how restrictive the laws are, keeping law-abiding citizens from having handguns in their own homes.
They also illustrated quite effectively how many gang-bangers are arrested on very legitimate weapons charges, but have the charges eventually dropped because the DC courts are just too overburnded.
In fact, 60 minutes points out that many times these gangbangers actually get their weapons back.
If they would have prosecuted this murderer, in not a foregone conclusion that he wouldn't have murdered. But, he probably wouldn't have been allowed to travel out of the country, so who really knows what path his life would have taken.
Obviously this is another call for more “common sense” gun control laws. It looks like the only federal law they might have gotten this POS on was the “sawed off” shotgun. That is still dubious. They make derringers in Waco that chamber a .410 shell, as well as a .45 long colt. Not to mention rat shot loads that can be fired from pistols. And Thompson makes Contender handguns that fire rifle cartridges. Is that a “sawed off” rifle?
So this muzzie (that I contend was being handled and groomed by the feds anyway) should have been prosecuted so that all other Americans should give up their rights? Hogwash.
For a white guy it is. 10 years in the pen.
Well yeah...except if the US Marshalls or BATFE gets there first, then they get to kill your dog and shoot your kids while waiting for Lon Horiuchi to show up to kill your wife and traumatize what remains of your family.
For Black Panthers and such, it's usually a faculty position with an endowed chair in Ofay Opression 101
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