More 2nd Amendment Stupidity

[Zaicran]

http://gunsnfreedom.com/ct-cops-seize-69-year-olds-274-legal-guns-and-charge-him-with-17-felonies/

Snippet:

A Connecticut man found himself in the crosshairs of his state’s anti-2nd amendment policies for simply having too many guns and being a rocketeer.

Police raided the home of Joseph Callahan, 69, on Monday and charged him with 11 counts of illegal possession of explosives and six counts of first-degree reckless endangerment after finding 274 guns in his home in Fairfield Connecticut.

Callahan is a gun aficionado who collects guns and is also a retired chemist who is an amateur rocketeer. And according to the NY Daily News “at least some of the chemicals found appeared to be for his rocketry hobby.” I’m guessing that all of those chemicals were used for his hobby.

Callahan’s attorney Richard Meehan said that his client is harmless and had no intentions of doing anyone any harm. He is simply a gun collector who also happened to work for DuPont as well as gunmaker Remington Arms, which is how his attorney says he acquired most of his guns.


Apologies in advance if this was already posted...

 

[K.C.Dean]

This will happen in Maryland if the state continues on the same path as it is now. How many people will fall victim to a law that they might not be aware of?

 

[WeaponsCollector]

At this point there's enough laws out there than just about everyone can be arrested and charged with something.

 

[Dave Taylor]

WC writes..........

everyone can be arrested and charged with something.

I agree.

I sure wish someone would run for some office somewhere promising to delete past onerous legislation made by some gummint' agency somewhere..... get the ball rolin'.

 

[Half-cocked]

I have a friend who used to be into high-powered rocketry.

He quit because of BATF harrassment over tiny, concocted infractions of their absurd recordkeeping and storage requirements, which were themselves the result of conflicting and erroneous information the the BATF agents themselves told him.

He quit, because being just a few years from retirement, he didn't want anything to jeopardize his life's savings.

If we didn't have a strong national organizaion like the NRA, the BATF and every other government agency you can imagine would be able to act like JBT's 24/7, and steamroll over every last one of us.

 

[Johnthetoolguy]

It is obvious to me that pressure is being put on local law enforcement jurisdictions to harass as many legal gun owners as possible.

 

[marte616]

At this point there's enough laws out there than just about everyone can be arrested and charged with something.

Read: Thee Felonies a day!

amazom.com review: "The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance."

 

[Zaicran]

America gone full retard

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[oldman12]

America gone full COMMUNIST

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Fixed It for you.

 

[highfructosecornsyrup]

I think there needs to be some house cleaning.

remember this from the simpsons?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XTTJTq1xI

 

[Vile Shadow]

At this point there's enough laws out there than just about everyone can be arrested and charged with something.

Just a matter of time.

 

[fabsroman]

This will happen in Maryland if the state continues on the same path as it is now. How many people will fall victim to a law that they might not be aware of?

It has already happened in Maryland. It involved a reported opinion wherein a guy violated the five pound of powder possession limit in Maryland without having a license to own it. Believe it was in Baltimore City in a row house.

Wheeler v. State

On July 1, 2003, subsequent to the execution of a search warrant that resulted in the seizure of explosives from appellant's "inside group" rowhouse in Baltimore City, appellant was arrested and charged — by means of a District Court Statement of Charges — with (1) reckless endangerment, proscribed by MD.CODE ANN., CRIM. § 3-204 (2003), (2) possessing more than five pounds of smokeless reloading powder without having a license to do so, proscribed by the explosives regulation statute, and (3) failure to store the powder in conformity with the requirements of the explosives regulation statute.1 On July 2, 2003, appellant appeared before a District Court commissioner, who set bail in the amount of two million dollars. On July 3, 2003, a judge of the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City conducted a bail review hearing and affirmed the decision of the commissioner.

[Officers had recovered] a total of a little over 62 pounds of [smokeless] gunpowder [in appellant's home].
There were 16,000 rounds of live ammunition. There were 68,000 primer caps which is the explosive device that ignites that gunpowder in a bullet casing. There were approximately 22 operable rifles and handguns and ... numerous unassembled weapon components such as barrels, handles, stocks, receivers and scopes that one particular box had 81 rifle barrels.
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Numerous quantities of this gunpowder ... were improperly stored in such containers such as antifreeze bottles.
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[A]n Army Corps of Engineers expert [ ] concluded that if approximately half of the gunpowder had detonated, "[a]ssuming that the next rowhouse is twenty feet away, the next rowhouse would be destroyed and its occupants injured or killed from the structural collapse."

I'll attach the case. Granted, this was mostly about gunpowder, but they mentioned the guns in the case too. For those of you that do not know this, you cannot possess gunpowder at your residence unless your residence is a single family home. it is illegal to possess gunpowder in a multi-unit dwelling, townhouse, condo, etc. So, no reloading in anything but a single family home.