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cb1000rider wrote:

VMI77 wrote:there are states that viciously target law abiding gun owners, like New York and New Jersey and Texas isn't one of them. I believe law for law, common sense is more likely to be applied in a State like Texas than one like New Jersey.

I know of some awful charges in NJ, but those charges stemmed from aggressive gun laws enacted by a liberal state. The laws didn't make a lot of sense (to me) - but I recognize them as law. The cases that I know about the gun owners didn't follow the laws of that state. Do you mean that liberal states tend towards more firearms restrictions? That I can get behind.

I'm not sure that I believe that liberal governments choose to go after law-abiding citizens more than conservative ones. IE - I'm much more wary of a trip through Williamson county than I am in Travis county. It's pretty well documented that the hammer of "justice" is much more costly in Williamson county. My blood pressure is much higher if I'm stopped up there than it is in Travis county.

I made trips through "restrictive" states this year: Illinois, I disassembled firearms, separated them from ammunition, locked them in cases, and put them in storage where I couldn't get to them from the vehicle. New Jersey - I didn't risk it at all, no firearms period...

I'm sure that you are right about that. But in the grander scheme of things, the fact that the gun laws are very unequally enforced is of greater concern to me. NJ is very bad about vigorously enforcing their repressive gun laws against otherwise law abiding citizens and totally ignoring enforcement in cases where it would make society safer. Camden, Newark, even Trenton have huge crime problems. Those problems are used as the reason for the gun laws But the enforcement of those laws is all but abandoned in the very places that need them This viral video is from a Newark resident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTSrun6htA While it has a political slant, the problem that she points up has been going on since I lived near Newark over a decade ago and before Booker was mayor. Camden is many times worse. Go look at the crime blotter for either city and examine how many gun crime violations are prosecuted.

I see the situation as very much of a parallel to our traffic laws. The laws are woefully complex and any of us could be stopped and cited multiple times in a short trip for failing to follow the letter of them. I agree with giving the LEOs a pass on not knowing every law but holding individual citizens to an absolute knowledge of them is ludicrous.

In NJ, yours is the only solution - have no firearms at all. So they have accomplished their purpose - a de facto repeal of the 2nd Amendment. And the supposedly Conservative Christie is as bad as any of them on gun laws.

All it takes to make Texas look like NJ is to start a vigorous enforcement of existing laws. Any Liberal leaning local government can make it start to happen tomorrow. The point about Williamson county is well taken. Law abiding citizens should not have to feel like that.

gthaustex wrote:I spent a little time looking. He doesn't show up on the most recent inmate list for McLennan County. If he was booked and still present, there should / would have been a charge listed. Wonder if he already bonded out....

From the link

....posted a $3,000 bond Saturday and was released from the McLennan County Jail after he was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon in a school zone.

Is anyone aware of another situation where local officers have enforced a Federal gun law like this? You have to wonder what was going on that:

after receiving a tip that the driver of the car was going to the school to pick up his children and was carrying a weapon.

It sounds like a setup based on some other circumstances. Understanding that news reporters seldom get the facts correct, I read that to say that someone, perhaps a wife in a marital dispute, ratted him out. It is difficult to imagine why the police would know to look for a weapon unless he told them about it without that outsider information.