Posted on 06/04/2009 12:50:01 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
"...just too overburdened.
" I'm the world's worst typist. I never make grammatical errors when writing with a pen, but put a keyboard in front of me and I become a 6th grader.
FBI has been told to back off the “Black Muslims” in the US.
There are few states in the nation that allow rifles to be loaded in an automobile, let alone a moving automobile on public roads. In fact, I know of now such allowance in any state.
You do now .... Texas ... long arms are completely unregulated.
Even so, he wasn't in TX. He was in TN. And, as a Georgian who frequently hunts in TN, I know that not only can you not have your rifles loaded, but technically, you can't even have ammunition in the cab if that's where your weapons are.
Look at the news in Philly, DC, Chicago, etc—if they have a known suspect on the run for rape, murder, bank robbery—they nearly always show a mug shot of the guy.
How can they have a mug shot when they haven’t caught the guy yet? Because almost every one of these folks has an arrest record long as his arm......
I am not sure what gun laws he is supposed to have broken in the previous case. In most states it is not illegal to have two shotguns in your car, or to sell them to another individual.
In Arizona we can carry loaded rifles or shotguns or pistols all we want.
So, the law he broke in the previous case was that he had two shotgun shells in his pocket while the shotguns were in the car with him.
Here's what the article says...
"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."
I don't know about where you live, but in TN, it is a Class C (perhaps B depending) misdemeanor to have a loaded long gun in the car, with or without a CCW permit. That's broken law number one.
He also had a switch blade, another Class A misdemeanor. That's broken law number two.
He had ammunition within the cab for a shotgun in the cab as well, another Class C misdemeanor. Borken law number three.
He had a short-barreled shotgun, a class E FELONY. That brings us to criminal charge number four.
Finally, he had an ounce of marijuana, a class A misdemeanor in TN bringing our grand total to at least FIVE criminal charges for which he was allowed to walk.
Incidentally, it's reasonable to presume that the SKS rifle he was caught with in TN was also the same one used to kill the two soldiers. And, if he would have been on probation, which would have likely been a multi-year condition of his conviction, he would not likely have been in Yemen in the first place.
Thank you for the information on Tennessee law. Switchblades are legal in Arizona. The article was unclear if the sawed off shotgun was legal or not, though it was implied to be illegal.
It sounds as if he cut a deal with the Authorities. He might even have been working for them as an informant.
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