Ky. Supreme Court Defines Where Guns Are Allowed In Vehicles

wave3.com ^ | Sep 21, 2006 | NA

[RogueIsland]

Sounds like just another way to turn honest folks into criminals by judicial fiat to me.

[Bigh4u2]

""A glove compartment is a small storage cabinet in the dashboard of an automobile," Justice Donald C. Wintersheimer wrote in the opinion."

Bullcrap!

Both my TransAm and Corvette have no 'storage cabinet' in the dashboard. They only have a center console which is also the 'glove box'.

Talk about nit picking.

[domenad]

Never thought I'd be coming down on the side of a guy named Mohammed. Not this century, at any rate.

[EternalVigilance]

*file under "judicial insanity:*

[lesser_satan]

It's a lot easier to get to if it's in the center console. If you're being jacked you don't want to have to fumble through the glovebox to get your piece.

[beelzepug]

I'd be more concerned that somebody named Mohammad was carrying a gun AT ALL.

[taxesareforever]

Scott also noted that several newer vehicles do not have glove compartments as defined by the majority of the court.

And what does this have to do with the cost of tea in China? If the sun isn't seen at the North Pole in mid of winter it doesn't reduce the definition of the sun. On second thought, maybe it does in this judge's mind.

[Bigh4u2]

"It's a lot easier to get to if it's in the center console."

That's probably why the judges reversed the ruling.

To make it fair for the criminal.

[NonValueAdded]

I'd like to know when the legislature wrote that provision - were center consoles even in use then? If "on the seat" is one of the options, then ease of access doesn't seem to be the issue. And whether or not the compartment can be locked means nothing if there is no requirement for it to be locked if containing a firearm. A hyper-technical ruling that demonstrates the difference between the law and justice, the former being a murderer getting off because of an inconsequential typo on a warrant application, the latter being that same just-released murderer getting hit by a bus as he exits the courthouse.

[rhombus]

Who the heck is the judge to define the definition of a glove compartment? If he thinks it needs further definition he should throw it back to the legislature.

[GretchenM]

A pathetic case of splitting glove leather.

Gloves CAN be stored in the center console.

Have the courts nothing better to do?

[AnnaZ]

Kentucky's concealed weapons law allows someone to carry a gun in the car, either in the glove compartment "regularly installed in a motor vehicle by its manufacturer," on the seat or in the trunk.

So the gun could be on the seat, but not in the console? What rubbish, and whaddabunchamaroons.

[ZULU]

Perhaps Fadi should have gotten a Jewish attorney.

Unfortuantely, I agree with the Supreme Court here.

[GretchenM]

What color is your 'vette?

(This is not a joke question.)

[demkicker]

Does anyone know more of Fadi Mohammad's story? Why was he pulled over in the first place?

From what I've read in this article, the Supremes ruling is ridiculous. What difference does it make if one stores a gun in a glove compartment or a console between the seats?

[demkicker]

Unfortuantely, I agree with the Supreme Court here.

Why?

[Captain Rhino]

All this wouldn't have happened if Fadi Mohammad hadn't been stopped for drunken driving.

Wait a minute...Fadi Mohammad...Mohammad...MOHAMMAD! Drunk driving! Mohammad, alcohol...uh oh, somebody's going to be in trouble down at the local mosque.

< /sarcasm>

[Bigh4u2]

Blue

'84

[Gordongekko909]

Well, he wasn't charged with possession by a person prohibited, or anything similar, so I'm going to assume that he's a law-abiding citizen.