Here's another outrageous case of gun control laws being used to persecute, arrest, charge and convict a law abiding gun owner. This one occurred in the gun-hating state of New Jersey and you really have to read it to believe it.
"Dustin Reininger is serving a five-year sentence with a three-year minimum before he’s eligible for parole. His crime? Pulling off the highway to get some rest during a long drive.
Reininger was moving from Maine to Texas, but only made it as far as New Jersey. He got tired and parked behind a building in Reading Township, a quiet, rural area of the state near the Pennsylvania line. Had he held out for another 20 minutes, there wouldn’t be a story about Dustin Reininger because he wouldn’t have had a problem in Pennsylvania, but he was tired so he stopped in New Jersey.
Police found him asleep in his SUV early that morning. Reininger just wanted to move on down the road, but officers thought something in the back seat looked like a gun case and considered that probable cause for a search. Officers searched Reininger’s vehicle and found several rifles, shotguns and handguns, as well as hollow point bullets and a “high-capacity” magazine.
Of course, all of that is perfectly legal in Maine and in Texas – or even 24 miles up the road in Pennsylvania – but it’s not legal in New Jersey without a permit. There is a provision in federal law that provides safe passage for someone transporting guns through a restrictive jurisdiction, but the jury didn’t get to hear about that law. The appeals court panel said that didn’t apply because it specifies that the guns should be locked in the trunk, and Reininger’s SUV didn’t have a trunk. They also ruled that officers were justified in searching Reininger’s car because they recognized the gun cases as evidence of a crime."
Do gun control advocates really consider this application of their laws to be "common sense" and "reasonable"? Does anyone? How can this be allowed to stand in a country that is based upon FREEDOM?There are so many things wrong with this... I won't go into most of them. But here's a question.
How does having a gun case equate to "probable cause" for committing a crime? A gun case can be empty. It can also contain firearms that are perfectly legal. How does doing the right thing, the safe thing and the thing that keeps that actual firearms from anyone's view result in felony conviction?
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/the-nonsensical-abuse-of-gun-owners/
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