[marktwain]

Time for legislation to provide for relief.

[Clint Williams]

“Oooh! Yes!!!!” Legislation, that’ll set the tyranny straight, yup.

[kbennkc]

Couldn't he have avoided this problem? Oh I get it, he is another hero pushing the limits of the unconstitutional law to restore rights for all. Or was he an ignorant dork that outsmarted himself. Did he think he could legally possess a weapon in New Jersey?

[apoliticalone]

Is there no justice or common sense and only a government of jack booted “public servants” with gold plated benefits who apparently have license to run ramshod over those who pay to operate it?

I belong to the NRA because I expect them to step up to the plate with the help of my donations and back-up victims of such predatory government policy. This is an outrage.

[centurion316]

The Nazi state of New Jersey, where only criminals can safely possess a firearm. Democrat politicians, left to their own devices will happily take all of us to this place. And they will be fully supported by our draconian judiciary. It’s for our own safety, don’t you know.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’ve always said that Liberty International Airport in Newark is the @$$hole of this nation. I will never fly to or through New Jersey ever again.

[Windflier]

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

[tsomer]

Maybe he went after the wrong people?

If he checked the gun legally in Utah, and the late flight
caused the delay, doesn’t the airline bear some responsibility for this snafu?

I’m just wondering about the competence of his attorney.

None of this diminishes the outrage, but maybe he fought the wrong battle to start.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I would suppose, knowing that the gun was “radioactive” in New Jersey, he was expected to abandon the luggage? Or to ask the airline to handle it themselves and forward it to the intended destination? Or to ask police to take the gun from the luggage so he could then take possession of the remainder?

One thing, common sense did not govern. And we can hardly expect gun grabber Christie to care.

[Blue Jays]

Imagine the horror of being simply an average man or woman...and finding yourself in general population in jail due to technicalities at the hands of an overreaching government? What a nightmare.

[The Comedian]

This makes me want to do something felonious.

The password is 'jailbreak'.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Red in Blue PA]

Time for him to get a lawyer and own part of NJ (not that anyone would want it)

[djf]

I believe federal laws says something like this:

If you are transporting a weapon you legally own FROM a place where it is legal to own TO another place where it is legal to own, then no state, city, township or other jurisdiction can stop you.

[Fitzy_888]

Once we make all laws ambiguous judgment calls, then everyone will be sorta guilty always.

[CodeToad]

fat chance.

[stevie_d_64]

The government can be sympathetic all they want...

Technically the court is right in the enforcement of the law, but since New Jersey seems to be full of asshats at that level, and that common sense in any investigation revealed absolutely NO intent to break the law, and that this guy declared the firearm legally in the first place to fly with it, then I rest my case that everyone who has prosecuted this case are a bunch of tyrranical asshats that should be run out on a rail...

I have plans to fly up to Minnesota (St. Paul) and through my rciprocity agreement with that state I will be flying with a declared firearm and my normal loadout of ammunition (3 mags) no mo, no less...

I anticipate no problems in the beginning of my journey, but I am hoping that there are not any overbearing asshats in the St. Paul airport to give me heartaches on the way back...

I’m not a big fan of jumping through these overbearing hoops to exercise my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...But I will follow the rules and be a good boy in the process...It will be interesting to see where and if there will be someone to give me too much more attention to somehow warrant addition intrusive scrutiny just because I am declaring a firearm in my “checked” baggage...

When you have been carrying for as long as I have, you become a student of the law and know that you need to review it and other states laws on the subject from time to time...

This guy got screwed for absolutely no fault of his own, and if any lawyer of judge should know through legal precidence that this type of situation has occcured many times before, where an actor, through no fault of their own was put into a situation where they were technically breaking a law, and with no intent to do so, just proves my point that their is NO common sense at all anymore in state of New Jersey...

I just hope my flight (this summer) doesn’t get diverted to Illinois...We may have a slight problem there...