Posted on 05/20/2013 3:16:21 AM PDT by lowbridge
Daniele Perazzi, president of the Italian Perazzi Shotguns firm, was taken into custody yesterday by Adams County Deputies [see update, below] along with several prototype shotguns. The executive was picked up in the parking lot of the Denver Merchandise Mart, hosting the high-end Colorado Gun Collectors show this weekend, after a taxi driver, likely reacting to a suspicious activity reporting outreach program conducted by law enforcement, told authorities he thought he could be transporting an armed “foreign speaking” terror suspect.
“He loaded prototype shotguns into the cab on the way to the Merchandise Mart,” gun rights activist and newly-elected National Rifle Association Director Steve Schreiner, who is attending the event this weekend, told Gun Rights Examiner this morning. “The cab driver notified law enforcement he suspected he had a terrorist in his cab, and they were waiting to intercept him, evidently oblivious to the fact that he was arriving at a highly-publicized area gun show.
“He has two lawyers, Schreiner continued, “one of whom went to the police station, and convinced the police that the owner of one of the most expensive shotgun companies in the world was not a terrorist.
Perazzi was released a short time later and his prototype shotguns were returned to him, but reports have emerged that he was ordered by law enforcement to leave the state by nightfall, and sources tell Gun Rights Examiner he has gone one step further and left the country. He is expected to be returning soon with an eye toward filing legal action.
Gun Rights Examiner also spoke this morning with one of the two attorneys involved with helping Perazzi straighten matters out to obtain his release.
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Re #4 - My thoughts exactly.
Apparently in NYC it’s hard to find a cabbie who isn’t a Muslim. Don’t know about CO.
If the Executive was a Muslim he would have been given the key to the city and a grand tour in stead of getting kicked out of the State.
No thanks; we don’t need an economy here.... (Duh!)
“There actually is a program in the Denver area for cab and bus drivers to report anything they find suspicious. This particular cabbie was probably trying to get some kind of reward.”
If there was a reward system and the cab company participated in it. I hope the gun owner family ends up owning the cab company.
The guy is lucky that the gestapo didn’t strip search, interrogate him and steal the guns before kicking him out of the state and making him feel unwelcome in the Peeple’s Republik of Amerikka.
translated press release update from the the Perazzi website.
Tourist traps. Not exactly what the rest of this vast area is.
FMCDH(BITS)
Another small town in rural America is putting its foot down and making a statement about the importance of one’s right to keep and bear arms.
Nucla, Colorado, a town located approximately 50 miles south of Grand Junction, is taking a cue from Nelson, Georgia, and mandating that each head of household keep a firearm for self-defense.
Earlier this month, by a vote of 5-1, the Nucla community council passed it’s own version of Nelson’s Family Protection Ordinance,” which reads:
In order to provide for the emergency management of the city, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.
Town Trustee and pro tem Mayor Richard Craig spoke to local news about the decision to approve the controversial ordinance.
“Every head of the household residing in town limits is required to maintain a firearm together with ammunition thereafter. Criminals are put on notice, period. We are armed,” he said, explaining the message that it sends to would-be robbers, thieves and rapists.
“I think my biggest thing is our Second Amendment, that is our right. I don’t think half the people on front range even know what the constitution is, let alone forget it,”
. Asked about how the rest of the country would view Nucla now that it’s requiring gun ownership, Craig responded humorously saying, “Some will probably say ‘yay’ and some of them would probably think we’re a bunch of banjo-playing, glow-in-the-dark idiots.”
While it appears that the majority of the town’s 750 residents support the ‘Family Protection Ordinance,’ there is at least one man who doesn’t: Nucla Town Trustee Bill Long, who voted against the measure.
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Apparently they are claiming it, and no one is challenging this.
If it remains unchallenged, they will claim it-—by force if necessary.
And other police departments in other states will take notice and see if it is challenged or not.
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