Posted on 12/03/2010 6:33:36 AM PST by marktwain
It is the kind of legal nightmare one only imagines from a Hollywood script writer, but right now in New Jersey, a man sits in prison who should not be there and his case has so outraged firearm civil rights activists that Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, will be flying to the Garden State in several days to join in a demonstration in Toms River, N.J.
Gottlieb will join Scott Bach, president of the New Jersey Association of Rifle & Pistol Clubs, radio personality Dennis Malloy and at least two membrs of the State Assembly, Michael Patrick Carroll and Allison Little McHose.
The aim is to petition Gov. Chris Christie to grant clemency to Brian Aitken, who – if one can believe this – is in prison essentially because he legally owned a couple of handguns. His story has flashed across Internet gun rights forums, and has been reported by the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Fixed?
I remember this guy. He's a Morris Cty state-level conservative. Good egg. I emailed him about this and that years back.
No more a blot than those of Maryland , New York, or the District of Columbia, and probably a dozen other states.
However, from what I have read the incarceration of this man is an atrocity.
Pennsylvania, where I live, has it’s backward-looking, blue-hair beer laws, but we know not to go to either of the New states, Yawk or Joisey, without mental preparation for the suspension of some Constitutional rights. And we also know enough to stay the hell away from our mums when we’re mad, especially if our mum’s a blankety-blank social worker who might call the cops “for your own good”.
I anticipate Chris Christie doing his best to ignore it - because he has his hands full with the budget, and gun rights are "not his thing."
But if he chooses to do that, his popularity will suffer. This case is an American tragedy, and if he pours manure on it in the hopes that something beautiful will grow, he is mistaken.
Jack booted nazi state ! New Joisey ! Pretty state but cannot stand the bull$h!t there. When I use to go there on business, you had to be very formal with some of the people there especially management and they always reminded you where you stood in the pecking order.
Not good.
I remember this guy. He's a Morris Cty state-level conservative. Good egg. I emailed him about this and that years back.
He's a gem in our turd of a state.
I lived in NJ for 40 years, having escaped 10 years ago this month. Its gun laws are, indeed, a blot on the nation.
Florio’s assault weapon ban was (and remains) and ACTUAL ban on certain named weapons. It also outrageously bans ALL magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds of ammo. Let’s just say that I fractured that law a time or two.
On the way to Texas 10 years ago, I was in the car with my wife. As we passed the “Welcome to Delaware” sign on the Delaware Memorial Bridge I turned to her and said, “Well, now that we’ve left New Jersey, you don’t have to worry about bailing me out of jail.” I got the expected dropped jaw and bug-eyed look from her. She asked, “Why?” and I explained that possessing such a magazine (which is, after all, just a metal or plastic box with a spring in it) was a 4th degree crime, punishable by up to 18 months in prison. She asked how many I had, and I told her, “I’ve got about 200 years worth sitting a foot and a half behind my ass.”
More of the dropped jaw and bug-eyes routine, and silence.
About a minute later she asked, “Does Texas have any laws like that?”
I said, “No, Texas is in America.”
I didn’t mention the several hundred rounds of hollow point that I had also acquired (along with the mags) at various Pennsylvania gun shows that I had gone to with friends over the years - didn’t want to give her a heart attack.
Now I’m in Texas, I’ve had a carry license for over 8 years, plus *just a few* additional items that’d get me locked up for good in the PRNJ. I must say that I miss some family, some of the good eating places and the familiarity of being in the place in which I was raised, but I most assuredly do not miss the draconian gun laws (or the high taxes, or the pollution near NYC, or the crime, or the idea that government is the answer to every problem). I have visited a couple of times, but I will NEVER go back there to live, not with the state as a miniature version of NYC.
>New Jersey’s a blot on the State and the Nation.
>Fixed?
Exhibit A:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e09-its-a-jersey-thing
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