Posted on 03/25/2016 8:12:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right
An actor who played a bit part in an independent gangster film is facing 10 years in state prison because he used a prop pellet gun without a state gun permit.
Carlo Goias, whose stage name is Carlo Bellario, was charged under New Jersey's strict gun law. It requires permits for firearms, including the airsoft gun Goias used while filming a car chase scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at northjersey.com ...
Anyway, the moral of the story evidently is this: Avoid New Jersey if you own a pellet gun. And don't even think about owning anything more powerful than that.
Slingshots are illegal in New Jersey.
Do the criminals know about this law?.................................
Make-believe find are real in the make-believe world of the Liberal.
find= guns
When you think about it, it was criminals who made this law.
Quotes from the founding fathers justifying the right-to-bear-arms.
Legally speaking, does this guy have a case??
Would it legally be the responsibility of the production company to make sure everything they do in making the movie is legal, including all stunts, all filming that was done, make sure all wages are paid to everyone, make sure all permits were in place, including permits for the use of stunt weapons???
This sounds crazy to me, that this one guy is being hung out to dry, because somebody in the production company didn’t get the proper permit for the use of the weapon in the movie. I can’t believe that it’s up to individual actors to make sure that all legal requirements of filming have been met, before they act in a movie.
You would get the electric chair because in addition to a weapons charge you would be hit with animal cruelty.
Slingshots are illegal in CT too. I had a court date when I took one into the woods behind a public shooting range.
Why isn’t the whole crew being busted as complicit in the actor’s “crime”? There’d be a better technical case for this than for the travesty that went down with the police (and maybe some bikers) in Waco resulting in a dragnet on murder charges of essentially all the bikers there, hundreds and hundreds.
I wish the Founders would have made the Federalist Papers officially part of the Constitution. Only one line in the Constitution would have been needed, just a statement that the Papers are to be used as a guide.
Correction Avoid New Jersey altogether! At the end of the day, New Jersey is at the top of the list of states that oppress people for trying to assert their Constitutional Rights. Unfortunately, Fat Boy Cristie is anti 2A, so there's no help coming from the Governor! It's been a while since I “visited,” but as I recall NJ is where the cops dress up like Nazi's with their Hitler hats and those neat over the shoulder belts! I really enjoyed watching one of their state troopers come out of hiding down in a grassy median to go after a speeder, eff up, spin across three lanes of traffic, and go off the road down an embankment. Right out of Smokey and the Bandit!
Reading the article seems to show that they weren’t very considerate of the neighbors, who may not have been advised well enough and who panicked and called the police.
Still even what NJ lawmakers are asking for, prosecutorial discretion, is an admission of the kind of bind that their draconian approach has thrown us into.
In any sane place this might have resulted in the movie crew getting slapped on the wrist for disturbing the peace, and that would be it. But not in the Garden Scapegoat State.
“There’d be a better technical case for this than for the travesty that went down with the police (and maybe some bikers) in Waco resulting in a dragnet on murder charges of essentially all the bikers there, hundreds and hundreds.”
Evrery state has at least one $hit hole city. In Texas’ case, it’s Whacko, followed by Austin in a close second posltion.
Tell me about it, one Whacko whacko announced on FR soon after the event that oh woe, this made a traffic jam for all those poor churchgoers to suffer on Sunday, so off with their heads.
How about (figuratively) off with the heads of those who grossly overreacted?
They will get my slingshot when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Avoid New Jersey altogether
A room temperature IQ is a legal requirement in NJ.
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