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Marine Faces 15 Years Behind Bars for Unknowingly Violating Gun Law
The Daily Caller ^ | 01/03/2012 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 01/03/2012 4:08:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard

Ryan Jerome was enjoying his first trip to New York City on business when the former Marine Corps gunner walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he should check his gun.

That was when Jerome’s nightmare began. The security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail.

The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.

Jerome has a valid concealed carry permit in Indiana and visited New York believing that it was legal to bring his firearm. He was traveling with $15,000 worth of jewelry that he planned to sell.

The online gun-law information Jerome read was inaccurate...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; nycommies
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1 posted on 01/03/2012 4:08:51 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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If this goes to trial, the Marine’s lawyer is an incompetent fool if he doesn’t fully inform the jury about their right to nullify.


2 posted on 01/03/2012 4:10:22 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

However, if you are in this country illegally and have stolen an American’s identity in order to work and/or steal welfare benefits, Barry and Eric love you!


3 posted on 01/03/2012 4:12:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed!!!!!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Similar story about a female medical student from Tennessee last week. She asked a cop and ground zero where she should check her gun.


4 posted on 01/03/2012 4:12:59 PM PST by Flightdeck (If you hear me yell "Eject, Eject, Eject!" the last two will be echos...)
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To: Lancey Howard

This should not be happening. But you know who and what runs the state of New York...and, of course, 9/11 never happened.


5 posted on 01/03/2012 4:17:05 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Flightdeck

Moral of these stories: Don’t ask, don’t tell.


6 posted on 01/03/2012 4:18:08 PM PST by GilesB
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To: Lancey Howard

Below is another one:


7 posted on 01/03/2012 4:21:45 PM PST by World'sGoneInsane (We Can Take OUR Country Back--Perry 2012)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If they had actually used their guns to rob a convenience store the charges would likely be plea bargained down to “unauthorized use”. NYC is a liberal cesspool.


8 posted on 01/03/2012 4:22:01 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: Flightdeck

http://www.njherald.com/story/16409726/report-tenn-tourist-wanted-to-check-gun-at-wtc


9 posted on 01/03/2012 4:22:29 PM PST by World'sGoneInsane (We Can Take OUR Country Back--Perry 2012)
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To: Lancey Howard

You will get no justice in the courts of New York, and damned few other places. The laws are written to protect the criminal.


10 posted on 01/03/2012 4:30:43 PM PST by Venturer
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

Yep, right along with San FAGcisco and Seattle, 2 other liberal bleeding heart, commie queer loving sewers.


11 posted on 01/03/2012 4:34:47 PM PST by bobby.223
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Moral of these stories: Don’t ask, don’t tell.

Unfortunately, you have to go through a metal detector if you want to go up to the observation deck of the ESB. You don't discover that until you've been in line a while. I had to surrender a small pocket knife I had on me. I was able to reclaim it when I came back down, but it was a big hassle.

12 posted on 01/03/2012 4:34:56 PM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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Regardless of this Marine’s unfortunate position, the lesson to be learned by all patriots is to never trust Marxist union pig cops in liberal cities. They are the enemy. They’re brainless swine who will blindly carry out orders from a pig like the leftist mayor bloomberg.

The Marine needs to make bail and flee the fascist NYC hellhole, to never return. He can find refuge in my state from any NY bounty hunters who are stupid enough to come down.


13 posted on 01/03/2012 4:37:55 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Lancey Howard

If the lawyer were to mention nullification to the jury the judge would immediately slap him down and strike the statement from the record. Judges do not want you to know about jury nullification.


14 posted on 01/03/2012 4:38:22 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: EagleUSA

New York and California the communists corrupt lands of North America.


15 posted on 01/03/2012 4:46:28 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Lancey Howard

This is the second such case I’ve read about in the past three or four days, and it disturbs me somewhat. In both cases the people carrying asked where they could “check” their weapon.I live in a legal carry state, there is no place to “check” your piece that I’ve ever seen. You are either legal to carry or not legal. Do these people not have a lick of sense?


16 posted on 01/03/2012 4:50:05 PM PST by Figment
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Are you joking? You are talking about NYC. It will go to trial and there will be a jury of gun phobic marxists who hate the military. The kid is doomed.


17 posted on 01/03/2012 4:50:14 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

NYC should be boycotted.


18 posted on 01/03/2012 4:53:06 PM PST by Brownie63
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To: Lancey Howard
hell, even an upstate ny CCW permit isn't valid in the big sh!ty...
19 posted on 01/03/2012 4:59:43 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Lancey Howard

People need to do this en masse with real looking airguns and overwhelm this Unconstitutional system.


20 posted on 01/03/2012 5:01:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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