Posted on 12/30/2014 10:13:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A year ago this New Year’s Eve, John Filippidis of Florida was driving south with his family on Interstate 95 when the Maryland Transportation Authority Police pulled over his black Ford Expedition and proceeded to raid it while his twins, wife and daughter looked on — separated in the back seats of different police cruisers.
The officers were searching for Mr. Filippidis‘ Florida-licensed, palm-size Kel-Tec .38 semi-automatic handgun, which he left at home locked in his safe. (Maryland does not recognize handgun permits issued by other states.)
When the search turned up nothing, Mr. Filippidis, 51, was allowed to go and was issued only a speeding warning.
The incident gained national attention. Mr. Filippidis went on multiple radio programs and described in detail how scared and outraged he and his family were. He wondered: How did the police know he was licensed for concealed carry, and what right did they have to search through his personal items on the side of the busy interstate filled with holiday travelers on that 10-degree day?
“My wife’s hysterical, shaking and crying,” Mr. Filippidis recalled in an interview with The Washington Times. “I don’t have a criminal record. I own a business. I’m a family man, and I tried to explain that to [the officer]. But he had a bad attitude, didn’t want to hear my story. He just wanted to find that gun and take me away from my family. That was his goal, but he couldn’t do it, because I didn’t have a gun, like I told him.”
Mr. Filippidis‘ case earned the support of Second Amendment advocates and subsequent apologies from the MDTA. But an internal police review concluded his stop and search were lawful and did not violate police protocols.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Your speculative abilities are amazing.
And yet you have still to explain how the MD cops could have known about that *specific* Kel-Tec. They couldn’t know from Florida.
Florida doesn’t license guns.
off topic
here in Phoenix a drone , a big un, has flown around here twice in 20 days about 70 feet up
“I’ve got mixed emotions about that.
I believe the bill of rights placed restrictions on the feds
and the ugly 14th amendment “incorporated” them unto the states.
I wonder to myself; to myself, I wonder...
How come South Carolina recognizes my Georgia driver’s license
but they don’t recognize my Georgia concealed carry permit?
Why is that, I wonder to myself.”
Well, for starters, a driver’s license is a “privilege,” and a CCW should be a “right” but the states don’t see it that way, and they will continue to do so until the SCOTUS ( you know that compilation of assorted turds and turdettes that pass for the stewards of our Constitution) finally come back from their manifold vacations and “interpret” the Second Amendment.
As far as your “mixed emotions” are concerned, I share them. But the 2A should not continue to be abused by the Blue States, so I was just postulating that the 2A should be given special legislation to put a “floor” under what any state can require as regards the use and carrying of firearms. I certainly would not want to see a Federal law that preempted a state like Arizona which has embraced Constitutional Carry, but I would like to see a law that stops my state (California) from denying recognition of all other states CCW laws, and beyond that assure our citizens who wish to carry a gun for protection, the unfettered means to do so.
In the article the cop spokesman claims the MDTA does not have access to those data bases threw their plate scanner. That of course does not mean they do not have that information available by other means.
I agree, something that specifically says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The instructor in a class for concealed carry permit.
What state?
well said
by the way
happy birthday
Pigs sharing information. AKA connecting the dots.
par tay
“...the 2A should be given special legislation
to put a “floor” under what any state can require
as regards the use and carrying of firearms...”
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How does that come to pass?
By amendment?
I am a big fan of an article V convention.
pigs ?
Looks like a good opportunity for a brilliant media circus..
Maryland police depts have their asses hanging out..
can be baited and someone at the top engineered this fiasco..
There are guns that only exist in the minds of reporters. E.G., Automatic 50 MM Revolvers, The Semi-Automatic Palm-Sized Kel-Tec .38, Rifles used in duck hunting, etc. etc.
Now Kel-Tec is very much on the Leftist Weapon Shiite List. That's because a 'Deadly Kel-tec Automatic Assault Pistol' was used to wantonly kill Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL, who, as you know, was delivering meals on wheels to elderly shut-ins after Bible Study. Tragic. Could have been a son of Obama.
i am always educated readin your posts
no , really
well,.......... more no
We live in SW PA but briefly have to enter Western MD on Rt 40 till we hit Grantsville and turn north.
I had to remind Dad that if we got stopped by the police and they asked if we had firearms he was to lie and say no.
He is a devout Catholic and a disabled Vet.
He sarcastically asked if MD was part of America.
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