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ok he broke the law. what the hell was the valet doing in his trunk?????   flame away...i know 2 wrongs don't make a right but WTF

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ok he broke the law. what the hell was the valet doing in his trunk?????   flame away...i know 2 wrongs don't make a right but WTF

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He broke the law, period. How can you "forget" where one of your guns is? Obviously he gave the keys to the trunk to the valet, making a gun available to someone he had no idea who it was. That's unacceptable behavior, and we all pay for it.

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Yeah, no one is answering the main question here, which is "What law did he break?"

You will not hear any complaints about the increased security. Quite the contrary. People say they are willing to put up with the inconvenience. People say it makes us safer and stronger.

By law your vehicle is subject to search if it's within 300 feet of the terminal.

Airport police are watching everything. If you are waiting to pick someone up you must keep your trunk open so they can see inside. People say that is the way it has to be.

"We live in country now where we have to have security, and I'm willing to do my part if everyone else is to make our world more secure."

Dear Mr MacDonald,

I just read your story on the News 2 website. It puzzles me. Mr Leland is charged with "illegal possession of a firearm". What does that mean? Was the rifle loaded? Did he point it at someone? Is it illegal to have a rifle in the locked trunk of a car in Tennessee? What the heck was a valet doing looking in the trunk, trying to find something worth stealing? Did anyone ask?

"By law your vehicle is subject to search if it's within 300 feet of the terminal"

I am wondering exactly what this "law" is. They started searching cars within 300 feet of an airport terminal here in California too. (Although the vehicles used in the attacks of 9-11 were actually aircraft, not cars, and the targets were some buildings in NYC and Washington DC, not airport terminals) If it is the same here then it must be a federal thing, but I never heard of it before last month, so I am just wondering if you know when Congress debated and voted on it etc. Maybe it is a "secret" law, one they don't tell us proles about.

But regardless of whether or not such a law exists, if Mr Leland's firearm was legally owned, so what if it is in his car? When the police searched it, was it in the parking area? I presume you know that no parking is being used that is closer than 300 feet to the terminal, so
this should fall outside the scope of that law, right?

"Police say they have a zero tolerance police when it come to weapons at the airport even if it was just a mistake, you are going to be charged."

Well, we all know how well Zero tolerance is working in schools, don't we?

"You will not hear any complaints about the increased security. Quite the contrary. People say they are willing to put up with the inconvenience. People say it makes us safer and stronger. People say that is the way it has to be"

Hmmm... not that I am sceptical or anything, but just who are these "people"? Usually quotes in news stories are attributed, in your article
no names are used. Are you sure someone actually said these things? "People say" is a subtle authoritarian manipulation tool, but it seems
overdone, you use it 3 times.

"We live in country now where we have to have security, and I'm willing to do my part if everyone else is to make our world more secure."
"These are very serious times. We're at war, and we need to everything we can  to protect the flying public and the airlines to create a safe
environment."

I remember Ben Franklin saying something about giving up freedom for security, and not having either. Anyway these sound like something from
a press primer in the great country of Oceania. You know Oceania- it is ruled by someone known as Big Brother.

Doesn't anything in the story trouble you?

Like I say, this story doesn't seem right. So many inconsistencies, and unanswered questions. I would love to hear what the real story is.

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I am still not exactly sure what "law" this is.

what the hell was the valet doing in his trunk?????

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That's a very good question.  

From the article:
Although no criminal charges have been filed, the man still could face civil penalties and fines by the FAA for bringing a weapon on board a plane, whether he knew about it or not.

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By law your vehicle is subject to search if it's within 300 feet of the terminal. Airport police are watching everything. If you are waiting to pick someone up you must keep your trunk open so they can see inside. People say that is the way it has to be. "

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As I said in the last thread, the sheeple will believe anything.

I was going to post this seperately, but it seems apropriate here:

I was attempting to sell one of my guns the other day and I went into a pawn shop to get an idea what they would offer me. The pawn broker took one look at my rifle and told me it was illegal. He continued on to say "Under the 1994 Brady Bill you cannot use a Hi-Capacity Clip in a Post-Ban Rifle." And yes he said clip (It was a 30 Rd.) I tried and another guy also tried to explain to hime that because the Magazines are pre-ban (Pre 1994) they can be inserted in any rifle that will take them. He wouldn't hear of it and continued to insist the rifle was illegal.