by Jeff Knox
The closing days of 2011 brought a rash of collisions between otherwise upstanding citizens and New York’s infamous gun laws.
On Dec. 16 Mark Meckler, a prominent California Tea Party leader, was arrested at LaGuardia Airport as he attempted to check luggage containing his unloaded, cased, handgun in accordance with TSA, FAA and Delta Airline rules.
Then on Dec. 22, fourth-year medical student Meredith Graves was arrested at the 9/11 memorial when she asked a security guard where she could check her pistol in an attempt to comply with a “No Guns” sign. That case echoed a September case in which Indiana jeweler, Ryan Jerome, also tried to comply with a “No Guns” sign at the Empire State Building by asking a guard to secure his weapon.
These are just the latest examples in a long stream of incidents that serve to demonstrate how gun laws snare the law-abiding.
On Jan. 5, Maryland businessman Stephen Grant walked out of a Manhattan courthouse after plea bargaining a gun charge down to a misdemeanor. Mr. Grant had driven to New York City for the weekend and then remembered his licensed handgun in the glovebox. Rather than leave the gun in the car, he locked it in the room safe at the hotel – and then forgot to take it with him when he left. Silly, stupid mistakes, but not worth the 3.5 to 15 years prosecutors originally threatened.
Almost a year before, Jonathan Ryan, a Florida landscaper, faced similar charges when police found a gun in his glove box during a routine traffic stop. Ryan made the far riskier decision to go to trial and won when a jury refused to convict him.
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The closing days of 2011 brought a rash of collisions between otherwise upstanding citizens and New York’s infamous gun laws.
On Dec. 16 Mark Meckler, a prominent California Tea Party leader, was arrested at LaGuardia Airport as he attempted to check luggage containing his unloaded, cased, handgun in accordance with TSA, FAA and Delta Airline rules.
Then on Dec. 22, fourth-year medical student Meredith Graves was arrested at the 9/11 memorial when she asked a security guard where she could check her pistol in an attempt to comply with a “No Guns” sign. That case echoed a September case in which Indiana jeweler, Ryan Jerome, also tried to comply with a “No Guns” sign at the Empire State Building by asking a guard to secure his weapon.
These are just the latest examples in a long stream of incidents that serve to demonstrate how gun laws snare the law-abiding.
On Jan. 5, Maryland businessman Stephen Grant walked out of a Manhattan courthouse after plea bargaining a gun charge down to a misdemeanor. Mr. Grant had driven to New York City for the weekend and then remembered his licensed handgun in the glovebox. Rather than leave the gun in the car, he locked it in the room safe at the hotel – and then forgot to take it with him when he left. Silly, stupid mistakes, but not worth the 3.5 to 15 years prosecutors originally threatened.
Almost a year before, Jonathan Ryan, a Florida landscaper, faced similar charges when police found a gun in his glove box during a routine traffic stop. Ryan made the far riskier decision to go to trial and won when a jury refused to convict him.
http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/01/take_your_guns-289x275.jpg
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