Posted on 10/28/2022 4:23:11 AM PDT by marktwain
On December 6, 2017, about an hour before midnight, Maui police were called about suspected trespassers on a trail controlled by Flyin Hawaii Zip Lines.
The police did not explore the trail or look for trespassers. They waited for the owner of Flyin Hawaii Zip Lines, armed with an AR15-style rifle, to search the trail and locate those accused of trespassing. From an August 22, 2022 article in Mauinews.com:
Wilson, 46, had faced the felony charge of keeping a firearm in an improper place and the misdemeanor charge of keeping ammunition in an improper place after he was arrested Dec. 7, 2017.
Police were called after the owner of Flyin Hawaii Zip Lines in the West Maui Mountains was alerted at 11 p.m. Dec. 6, 2017, that trespassers had entered the property, according to information in court records.
Police waited on the roadside while the owner, who was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, and an employee located three hikers who told police they were hiking to look at the moon and native plants, according to the information.
Upon information from the accused trespassers, the owner and an employee searched again and brought out Christopher Wilson. Wilson told police he had a .22 caliber handgun in his waistband. Wilson was arrested in the early morning hours on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 2017.
On August 17, 2022, over four years and eight months later, the trial judge, Kirsten Hamman, dismissed the felony charge for keeping a firearm in an improper place and the misdemeanor charge of keeping ammunition in an improper place, citing the June 22, 2022, Supreme Court decision in Bruen.
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More cowbell
Well Played. Thank you for the laugh
The way I’m reading it, one of the trespassers was armed with a pistol, and they dropped the charges against him for carrying it. Seems to me that committing a crime while armed would fall outside the purview of Bruen - but I have no idea if that could be supported historically.
This wasn’t about carrying. It was about “storage.” Hawaii has extremely stupid gun laws. They tried to get it so you had to store them AT the county police department HQ. This was probably a prosecutor who discovered the owner of the 22 didn’t have a county of Maui approved gun safe at home. Hawaii is run by very very stupid people and their gun laws reflect it.
Yeah, that’s stupid alright - but they are liberals after all.
He is timeless.
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