A man walked into JFK airport in New York City this weekend trying to catch a flight to Tennessee. As required by FAA regulations, he declared that he had an unloaded and locked firearm that he wanted to check through to his final destination. Under any sane person’s reading of the safe passage provisions of the Firearm Owner’s Protection Act, that should be fine and dandy. But since this is New York we’re talking about, the man was immediately arrested and CNN was all over the story . . .
A man was arrested Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport after checking a loaded rifle and three other illegal weapons, according to a Port Authority spokesperson.
Keenan Draughon of Clarksville, Tennessee, was arrested after he checked two handguns, two defaced rifles and two unloaded high-capacity magazines, according to Port Authority spokesperson Joseph Pentangelo.
Although the paint scheme on that AK-esque gun turns my stomach a little, calling a painted firearm “defaced” (as the New York Port Authority police department and CNN tell the story) is disingenuous at best. In this case, it was probably a calculated move to try and paint this gun owner as a criminal and a nut and to appeal to the large population of gun control advocates in the tri-state. “Defaced” is usually a term applied when someone files a serial number off. In this case, the serial number was still present and visible.
All of these firearms are legal in most of the rest of the United States, but because the city of New York requires anyone within its limits (resident or not) to have a permit to exercise their Second Amendment rights, these guns were illegal. Also in the Draughon’s cases were two unloaded standard capacity magazines, which are now also illegal under New York’s SAFE Act.
Draughon is facing multiple felony charges now including a charge related to the poorly painted rifle being “defaced.” While I hope that this might finally be the case that solidifies the “safe passage” laws (which was the one and only good thing that we got in exchange for the rest of the turd sandwich that is FOPA), I’m more concerned about what precedent could be set by saying that merely painting over a serial number constitutes “defacing” a firearm. If that same standard is applied elsewhere it could mean that a lot of people with some very pretty pieces would suddenly become felons.
I’m not holding my breath.
If it does ever happen, which I seriously doubt, it certainly won’t happen in my lifetime. I even doubt it will happen in my grand children’s lifetimes, and that’s assuming there is even an America left for them to inherit.
Yes, we’ve made some strides lately. Heller, McDonald, and Shepard, while definitely far and away from ideal decisions, were major victories for us. But for every step forward, we end up taking two steps back somewhere. This brings me to the heart of my assessment on this matter.
The People of the Gun have “compromised” enough with the fascistic regressive liberal demagogues that infest our political arena and our populace. We should not be digging in our heels to hold the line where it is, but to muscle forward every inch we can, everywhere we can, whenever we can, and refuse to give up even a hair’s width anywhere else. We should be the unassailable, impenetrable wall.
We are going to have to push our opposition right over the proverbial cliff and let them forever wallow in their defeat in order to force them to face reality: our rights are absolutely non-negotiable and you are not going to impugn on our ability to exercise them.
Our current predicament comes, firstly, from the foolish notion that we can negotiate the limitations of our rights with those who would sooner strip them from us and leave us for dead rather than leave us be at peace and, secondarily, from our willing participation in that otherwise UNLAWFUL process.
This isn’t about “argument. This is isn’t about “debate”. This isn’t about “compromise”. It never was or will be. This is about complete and total capitulation, and the fascistic regressive liberal demagogues will not stop until they achieve this and ONLY this. It is the ONLY thing that they will ever accept. They can’t get it wholesale, hence why they play the incrementalist game: death by 1,000 cuts.
We’ve been very slow to catch on to this, and equally reticent to adopt it. But, I think it’s high time we started besting them at their own game. It sucks that we can’t get our rights back wholesale, but chipping away at the chains the fascistic regressive liberal demagogues are trying to bind us with can certainly work.
What… IS that? The receiver looks like it may be one piece?! It’s not another dang airsoft being touted as a real gun is it?
Its a .22 knock off of an AK- even without the bad paint job it still looks terrible.
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$1389 with tax
Approximately $1,130 is my guess.
Is there a website to donate to the new recall efforts?
Hey, a locked case who the hell cares, he obviously wasn’t trying to hide the fact he had weapons… Free country my ass!
A purple AK should get you laughed at on the range by your friends not arrested this is pure b.s. as for everything else if he bought it somewhere else and was just tryin to catch his connection I see no issues, hell shouldn’t be any issues no matter where he got em or what he was doing with em.
It might be a sign of the times, but I think it is pretty fair to say this guy may have had it coming. If was flying through JFK with my firearms, I know I would be extra paranoid to make sure everything was unloaded… wouldn’t you?
What’s hilarious (sarc) though is CNN and apparently NYPD’s focus on the types of firearms and not that they were allegedly loaded.
That and he should have been arrested for the purple paint job anyway.
Your talk of Shannon Watts in erotic attire makes me want to vomit copiously. This is a woman who would have joined the Nazi SS or the Soviet NKVD had she been born in a different era. It was her group that took down one of my Twitter accounts because they cant stand dissenting opinions.
Well, what did you expect from Shannon? She has a business to run.
I think Dirk can turn her. I really do.
If by “turn her” you mean change her mind, nah. Ain’t happening. Bloomberg has too much money. But if you mean turn her over, then maybe . . . .
First they came for the liberals and I did nothing. I’m not a liberal.
Then they came for the communists and I did nothing. I’m not a communist.
Then they came for the academics and i did nothing. I’m not an academic.
Then they came for the Jews and I did nothing. I’m not a Jew.
Then they came for Baboons with Lee-Enfields. It was either fight or walk into the ovens.
You know you have had a bad day when you become a felon over a s****y Hi Point Carbine and a Krylon’d WTF cannon…
The reason for strict gun laws in Hawaii is simple: The whites fear armed native Hawaiians taking up arms to repel the invasion of western culture, which stripped them of their land, enslaved them with welfare, and taxation, in order to build resorts and sell off land to wealthy whites. Fruit and cane sugar companies invaded the islands, and missionaries stole much of the land, including the famous Robinson family who purchased the forbidden island of Niihau from the Queen for $10,000 (How can a Monarchy charged with protecting its people, sell the very land which belongs to the people?). The Hawaiian people lack the means to forcibly expel the yoke of imperialist western civilization, and they will always be subservient to the west as long as they are unarmed and shackled.
My 12 gauge is Kevin and my 20 gauge is Richard
This isn’t the first time this has happened at a NYC airport. People have been arrested because they are changing planes in NY. The pint sized Manhattan Mussolini is as big if not bigger a threat to freedom and liberty than DF. Who is he to destroy lives for the crime of having to travel through his personal fiefdom. I lived in NY 20 odd years but will under no circumstances revisit that city or state. And if you think it’s bad now wait until that Marxist DeBlasio gets elected.
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First step will be SCOTUS hopefully upholding the Montana firearm freedom act. If it stays inside a states borders the Feds should have no say in it.
“A man walked into JFK airport” sounds like the start of a bad joke.
Not as bad as “a doctor, a lawyer and a priest walk into a bar,” but still bad.
A doctor, a lawyer and a priest walked into a bar. The bartender looked up and said, “What is this, a joke?”
Yep, they are the very definition of a Potemkin Village. If the media is to be believed, this is a massive organization with 100,000 totally pissed off women (and growing exponentially by the day) all of whom are pouring their time, money and effort to enact “common sense gun safety legislation” (the new buzzwords to ban most guns and make what remains difficult, expensive and time-consuming to acquire). But, when you peel back the top layer of the MDA onion, it’s really only perhaps a few dozen active members per state (so a few hundred active members tops nationwide), with an exceptionally media-savvy leader, and an all too willing traditional print and television press tripping over each other to lap up everything they have to say right from their hands. As for their “100,000 members”, sure, it’s easy to swell membership numbers for an organization when the only freaking requirement for membership is that you put your e-mail address into their website.
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Someone needs to teach them the proper way to play musical chairs.
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If CNN is reporting, we can be sure of their truth about guns:
its propaganda, not facts,
and that is old news.
IMHO, that purple thing is felony ugly.
Thank you for supporting a fellow citizen’s rights, FLAME DELETED.
Acknowledging that firearm safety could benefit from an education program validates the concept of individual ownership, which is what they are trying to end in the first place. The more people who are educated that firearms are safe and sane to have in your home, the more people are likely to have firearms. And everybody knows that more guns equals more gun violence.
I can see where it would be an issue – no mandatory little orange tip-off that this isn’t a “real” gun?
When I was much younger I had a Crossman BB pistol that looked (somewhat) like a 1911. Fairly accurate out to about 12 feet. Then when I was stationed in Germany I discovered that a lot of the officers when we were on maneuvers would carry these same Crossmans in their holsters rather than risk losing a real 1911 in the field. I’ll bet they would have loved to have some of these babies (not Elise, necessarily).
I think Cruz struck a chord with a lot of Americans who feel disenfranchised by the current generation of leaders in DC. If nothing else, the frantic pantie-twisting and hyperventilation of the MSM is proof he scares the crap out of them. That gets my vote all by itself…
VP Cheney was on Stephanopolis’ show today- link at Drudge. He said the GOP got whipped in 2012, and we need a new generation of leaders. His daughter is running for the Senate in WY, and he pointed out how her opponent got most of his campaign money from DC, and it would be WY voters who decide who represents them, not DC. I found Cheney to be the most adult voice in the Bush admin, and history has proven him right on most of it.
Tea Party is part of the Republican Party, the best part as I see it. An independent party exists, but splitting the fiscal conservative smaller govt voters off the Repubs takes away from whats needed to reform the RINOs and would do the same thing that H.Ross Perot did to the US, allowing Clinton to win.
I hope we all remember that, and dont allow history to repeat – if we split the Republican vote, then we get Hillary- and that would be a disaster to gun rights, and the US economy and foreign policy, based on her own immoral and incompetent performance so far- but hey “What does it matter anyway?”.
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Didn’t hurt anyone – not even himself and is facing “felonies.” Every day we get closer to a Stalinist nation.
Lock him up & throw away the key! That color sucks!
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What ever you do not buy these mags.I purchased 5 of these mags and they are not what they claim.I emailed the company about cancelling my order and I received a call the next day.But I email the company to find out why the product I over paid for doesn’t work the way they claim and I cant get an email or call back.My complaints are: loaded mags don’t lock into the receiver,the mags bellow out when loaded,every other round jams now leaving me with junk rounds.Just a few of my complaints,personally I would say buy the pmags and modify them for the great low price of 20$ per mags instead of 80$.If you don’t want my opinion at least buy one before pissing away 350$ like I did.
OK, I’ll play. It was $879.98 with a kiss from a unicorn.
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NYC passed a law in 2006 that banned painting guns bright-colors that could be mistaken for toy guns.
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2006a%2Fpr184-06.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1
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Sweet Jesus yes.
$1200 for the 115 Federal
$150 for CCI Standard Velocity 22R
$410 for 1000 rounds of Federal 55-grain 5.56
$380 for 500 rounds of 40-grain FN 5.57 X 28m
Total: $2140
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I say $1040
A murder of a family of 3 or 4 would be listed as 1 murder.
I am thinking about $1500. Assuming they are not actually empty boxes of hope!
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I disagree; the UK IS the “gun-free paradise” they anti-gun nuts are looking for.
Only thing is, IT’S A LIE.
UK is a gun-free paradise the way the Soviet Union was a “Workers Paradise”. Same socialist/fascist crap.
LOL. Are you kidding me? Anyone who can not see through this obvious scam deserves to be treated like the fool they really are. This is typical destruction of “non”evidence … meaning, nothing happened, so they had to destroy the property so no one would be able to prove it later. Why the huge black fence? Why are all the “records sealed” …. this was SO in your face FAKE shit that it is honest to God laughable.
I could sit here all night and type FACTUAL reasons that point to this being a big Hollywood production.
What would it accomplish? The brain dead who believe this shit are programmed to only believe what the government penis spits at them. EVERYTHING about Sandy Hook was 100% suspicious and there is not one single hard proof evidence that this “event” really happened. On the contrary, there are 100s of FACTS that prove it is all a bull shit lie. Wake the fuck up people.
Everyone always goes on about the 800 lb gorilla in the room. Let’s see how they like the 80 lb chimp on the next ridge.
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$1210.00 before tax.
Kokesh/Noir 2016.
There once was a baboon named Bill
Who had a license to kill
He tried just stopping
Instead, went melon popping
And thought it all in goodwill
Guess it’s all been said about the gun. As for the packaging, don’t be gentle. All bleeding stops! Eventually.
Absolutely no conclusions can be drawn from the CNN article. If the man was staying in NYC, he broke the local laws. If he used JFK to travel outside of the city, then this is absolutely in violation of Federal law (aside from the constitutionality issues)
This is my shocked face.
Even with all this COMPLETELY DAMNING evidence, who’s taking bets on something actually changing? IN THE UK?
Universal Knuckleheads.
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You’re probably right about the rhino, but what we REALLY need is education for these muttonheads that believe in the medicinal properties of rhino horn, or bear bile, or tiger bollocks, or roasted human fetuses, and so on and so on.
Excuse my cynicism. But this looks nothing more than a seized opportunity to get a new school that otherwise would not have been built if not for the sake of the little children.
I expect it won’t even take a few years before the superintendent is credited with getting that lovely new school built with only a passing if any mention to the reason why.
I dunno, maybe school boards around here are just exceptionally awful. I wouldn’t put too much money on that though.
So the US Government is adding an animal to the list of federally protected species, when there aren’t any available for hunting in the United States? Sounds like a little extra paperwork for nothing.
This is directed more at the younger folks here like myself, but for the love of John Moses Browning PUT DOWN THE SMARTPHONE!!!!!
Yesterday I observed a man leave his car, enter my apartment building, and ascend a flight of stairs with his head aimed squarely at the iPhone 5 nestled in his palm.That guy was Condition Colorblind.
Condition: Asking for it. LOL
I’ve a fifty-some year old Crossman .22 calibre single shot pellet pistol that clocks just shy of 850 FPS; I enjoy wascally wabbit stew wegulawly.
A suppressed .22 rife is loud with earmuffs on, how could she have possibly slept through a .40 in a closed space?
It never ends with these pick-your-ploy, dial-a-scam civilian disarmers. If it’s not the Big Lie, repeat a blatant lie often enough until people finally start believing it, then it’s something else. If it’s not a Jedi Mind Trick, these are not the gun grabbers you’re looking for, then it’s something else.
There’s something not only unwise, but wicked, about setting permanent policy based on fleeting emotions.