"Bama Brian" <eddyclay@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Wayne wrote:
>> On May 12, 5:27 am, Jim Yanik <jya...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> "PLMerite" <stock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>> innews:_OLVj.5680$%X1.5281@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sun May 11, 2008 6:15pm EDT
>>>> LOS ANGELES, May 11 (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, a former policeman who
>>>> built a Hollywood career playing detectives, was arrested on Sunday
at
>>>> Los Angeles International Air****t for carrying a loaded gun on his
way
>>>> to board a plane, police said.
>>> I checked CA's gun laws,and they don't require registration on
>>> handguns,EXCEPT if you are bringing them into CA.
>>> THEN,you are a "handgun im****ter",and have to register them.
>>> And they must meet the CA specs for handguns;be on their "approved"
>>> list.
>>> I believe they got Farina on the "im****ter" nonsense.
>>> (although he was -LEAVING- CA.)
>>>
>>> I guess if you leave CA with your guns,you first have to register
>>> them,or
>>> commit a felony upon return.
>>>
>>> A Communist paradise,California.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Yanik
>>
>> Yep, they have enough on him for violating concealed weapon laws,
>> loaded gun laws, and for having the gun in a secure air****t area. The
>> "unregistered" charge is pure crap, just to pile on more charges, not
>> to mention that there may be a completely legal reason that he has an
>> "unregistered" gun, even if it is not on the current approved list.
>> Looks like they are setting him up for a high profile "example".
>
> As it happens, you can carry a gun to the air****t, so long as it is
> unloaded and locked in a suitable container and packed in your hold
> baggage.
You can actually carry it (legally) all the way INTO most air****ts
(if you can carry it there legally outside the air****t).
You cannot take the arms through the security point legally but for
most air****ts that is well within the building.
> Harry Connick, jr., made the same mistake a few years ago. He paid a
fine
> and that was the end of it. Let's see if Mr. Farina's attorney's
reduces
> the LA air****t's charges.
Mixed feelings about that -- the whole thing is stupid for such incidents,
but the more trouble these make the more likely the law will be
adjusted to something sensible.
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