Re: OT: Carrying unlicensed handguns in D.C. illegal, depending on your connections
- From: "WuzYoungOnceToo" <WuzYoungOnceToo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:13:58 -0700
On Apr 30 2007 1:44 PM, pltrgyst wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:44:06 -0700, "WuzYoungOnceToo"The
<WuzYoungOnceToo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hmmmm. He was caught entering a U.S. Senate office building with a
loaded, concealed pistol that he wasn't licensed to carry, along with 2
extra full magazines of ammunition, and the U.S. attorney can't find the
essential elements of the crime of carrying a pistol without a license?
That's because one of the specifically enumerated essential elements for the
crime of possessing an unregistered weapon is knowledge that you possess it.
US Attorney decided he couldn't prove that point.
Yeah, I know that was the out, but you've missed the point. What do you
suppose the odds are of the same "Gee, I had no idea I was carrying so
much firepower" claim by John Q. Public being good enough to convince the
state to just drop its case? I'm wondering how much success one would
have with the "I thought that Glock and all the extra ammo was in my other
jacket" defense if the average schmoe was caught so armed in a federal
government building.
If you read a decent newspaper, such as the Washington Post, instead ofgetting
your news in TV network blurbs, you'd know that.
Assumptions are a poor substitute for knowledge. I'd read the story from
multiple sources, and just pasted a link to the last one I read.
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