Posted on 01/31/2011 3:48:03 AM PST by marktwain
The Philadelphia Daily News reported on a disturbing story that should horrify every gun owner in this nation. Brian Aitken, a 25-year-old successful media consultant who was going through a separation with his wife, was in the process of selling his home in Colorado and moving to a suburban New Jersey apartment to be closer to his two-year-old son when he was arrested in an odd series of events.
On January 2, 2009, Brian was visiting his parents in Mount Laurel while taking a break from moving to nearby Hoboken. After Brian’s former wife canceled his scheduled visit with his son, he became distraught and said something to the effect of “life’s not worth living anymore” to his mother and drove away. His mother, a trained social worker, became worried about a possible suicide risk and called 9-1-1 but hung up after having second thoughts. Law enforcement traced the call and soon arrived at the scene. The police called Brian, who was on his way to his new residence in Hoboken, and asked him to return to his parents’ home because they were worried. When he returned, the cops searched his vehicle and found two handguns, both locked and unloaded as New Jersey law requires, inside the trunk, in a box stuffed into a duffel bag with clothes. Brian was arrested and, according to his attorney, the subsequent trial and conviction were the “perfect storm of injustice.”
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Canada's Gun Laws for Americans :
•It is possible to enter Canada with restricted handguns, including to transport between Alaska and the Lower 48, provided that you have the proper license, registration certificate, and transport authorization paperwork.•It requires a lot of work and time (a minimum of several months for the first time) to obtain the license, registration, and paperwork approvals; but it is possible. People do it, myself included. Do not attempt to enter Canada with a restricted handgun unless you have these documents in your possession. They won't issue them at the border.
Ship them to an FFL holder in AK?
Maryland. Don’t move to Maryland.
this is like a way old story.
I disagree. They could be presecuted if we had a president who cared about the constitution. Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242. This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.
BUT, The felony is still on his record negating owning firearms or voting . The conviction has to be EXPUNGED from his record and Christie will not do that being the Obama in a white suit he is .
NY State is not awful...(well yeah it is awful compared to a state in ‘Real America’), but compared to Jersey or DC it is not awful.
no permits for long guns....except NYC. fairly easy pistol permits in most of the state except NYC.
if NY keeps the State Senate Republican (well RINO for the most part.) that will prevent more draconian laws...but the republicans only have it by one or two senators...
and perhaps that is good....let the gun advocacy groups get this before the high courts and let them make NJ pay for its tyrant ways.
Get a grip, you don't know that.
I hope you got a substantial increase in wealth from the move, or some other "plus" that makes giving in to NY licensing worth the trouble.
-- NY's unconstitutional pistol permit laws are to blame. This s*** needs to change. --
The Feds supported NY's restrictions until the Heller decision. As a general rule, governments are inclined to disarm the people.
The US government has perpetrated numerous atrocities against citizens in the war on guns.
If he's pardoned, his appeals become "moot" and don't go forward.
If the appeals continue, and he prevails, the conviction is overturned and the circumstances can't be repeated on some other victim.
If it was me, I'd be willing to postpone regaining my voting etc. rights for the sake of better guarantees of everyone else's COTUS 2A rights.
Body cavity.
You might have to ship them from your local gunstore to one in AK and pick them up there. The Canadian border patrol are NO FUN if they find the guns and if they think you’re acting like a bozo they will take you car apart ‘searching’ it and they won’t put it back to gether again. Seen it, you don’t want to experience it.
"After Nappen raised the moving-exemption issue, the jury even asked the judge for the exemption statute several times, and the judge refused to hand it over to them."It is a sad state of affairs when after being denied the ability to see the law they had requested to see there there wasn't even one juror out of twelve who had the intelligence and/or fortitude to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt due to him, and at least produce a hung jury.
Cordially,
watched Gold Rush on Discovery Channel.
they took the ferry from Seattle with their guns, long and short.
The lawyer deliberately didn’t ask for a pardon as they are still appealing the decision, but rather clemency which is way easier to get. He wanted to get him home for Christmas per the article. So yes it’s still on his record for now.
Also with clemency, if they win the appeal it sets precedent for future cases so that the next guy doesn’t get screwed like this.
The worst part is he was within his rights according to Jersey law. The judge just chose to ignore the law in the courtroom, and refused to make the law known to the jury even after repeated requests. This is an issue of corruption, not the law.
The jury failed here, they should have had the common sense to find the man not guilty. There is nothing the judge could have done about that.
I listened to this man’s plight on the NRA Radio program. He is out on appeal now. If there was ever a comparison to the Nazi regime, this is it.
I was thinking that you either ship them or ... take a ship instead of drive.
Apparently there is a ferry from Washington. See this about the Alaska Marine Highway System, from: http://www.dot.state.ak.us/amhs/routes.shtml
The Alaska Marine Highway is the perfect way to visit the communities that populate Alaska’s diverse and scenic coastline that totals over 3,500 miles from our southern ports of Bellingham, WA, 90 miles north of Seattle, Prince Rupert, BC and the Inside Passage. From there our route crosses the Gulf of Alaska out along the 1,000 mile stretch of the Aleutian Chain to the Bering Sea.”
Just a thought.
I hear you. Though I think that Federal Grand Juries can ignore the supposed immunities and use their power of Presentment to charge them with, say, Conspiracy Against Rights.
If you have the time read this thoroughly enjoyable & enlightening paper: IF IT'S NOT A RUNAWAY, IT'S NOT A REAL GRAND JURY.
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