Posted on 11/08/2011 3:51:32 AM PST by marktwain
A 23-year-old Menomonee Falls man is facing charges after he was caught driving through the village with a concealed BB gun in his car.
Daniel J. Keane was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Wednesday with one count of carrying a concealed weapon. If convicted, he faced up to nine months in prison and $10,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint:
On July 21, Keane was pulled over near Jacobson Drive and Hiawatha Avenue after he was driving with a burned out taillight. He was issued a municipal citation for the taillight and told he was “free to go,” however, the officer stopped and came back to his car and asked if he had anything illegal in the car.
He told the officer he didn’t and gave him consent to search his car where the officer discovered the BB gun inside a drawstring bag behind the driver’s seat of the car. Keane told the officer he had been using them recreationally.
The officer also found three .22 caliber hollow point bullets inside the car, which Keane said he was unaware were there.
He will make his initial appearance in court Nov. 16.
Good case for GOP governor Walker, to issue a pardon.
Is it Illegal to have .22 hollowpoints in your car up there?
That place must be crazier than I thought and it’s never been somewhere I would visit.
If it’s such a big crime, why did the police let him go?
It is disgusting how “authorities” can just ruin your day by charging you with lame BS. This individual must experience the emotions and probably hire an attorney...even though this is obvious BS. Disgusting.
An overzealous police officer could ruin your whole weekend. life. There - fixed it.
not to mention the life of your dog as well.....
The horror, the horror - a deadly BB gun.
Waiting for the FR jackboot lickers to tell us once again how the police are "on our side."
Well you want them to be able to go home to their families at night don't you? (never could figure out why this was supposed to be the ultimate argument in favor of any sort of police excess)
So my question is if the driver of the car had such a dangerous weapon and bullets, why was he let go to drive home?
Welcome to the USSA, comrade.
No matter how friendly, never trust a cop. Their objective at all times is to get an arrest for law-breaking no matter how stupid it seems.
A BB gun?
This man faces prison for a BB gun?
They need to put this BB gun carrying terrorist under the jail. {/sarc}
After a recent experience, and quite an experience it was, in the Barberton, Ohio muni court, I shall never trust the OSP, nor a judge, again. The trooper outright lied, and the “blind and deaf” judge completely disregarded my rebutal. Yep, justice is blind.
This line is supposed to make the commie libs and hoplophobes pee their pants.
That guy had every right to refuse the cop to search.
A BB gun is not a firearm.
Really? Three .22 cartridges? They better not look in my gun room, then.
In Chicago of the 1950's when you could go into any Sears Sports Dept. and touch, handle, and buy Long Guns right off an unlocked rack in an aisle - you wouldn't see a single Daisy Red Ryder BB-Rifle, or a Benjamin-Sheridan Pellet Rifle.So really, there must be some secret eveil about BB Guns us mortals are not privy too.Reason, all BB-Guns and Pellet Rifles were Outlawed in Chicago. I'm series. Even when I just turned 18 and I bought my 1st .22 cal Rifle in a 'discount' Dept Store they didn't, and couldn't, have a single BB gun for sale. Now how STOO-PID™ is that. Any caliber rifle or any shotgun, noooooo problem. But a BB Gun? Are you crazy, they're dangerous.
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