Communist California LEO arrested this guy for transporting an assault weapon he had paperwork for…
So this begs the question: If you legally own an assult style weapon, and you have the proper paperwork are you not allowed to move the weapon to use it?
Also if I have to hear in a “Post 9/11 world” one more time I am going to kick someones butt.
Man with guns at airport says he’s law-abidingSunday, January 11, 2009LOS ANGELES The man arrested at Los Angeles International Airport with a trunk full of guns and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition said Saturday that he is a law-abiding weapons enthusiast who had no idea he might be breaking the law.
A day after he was arrested for suspicion of felony transportation of an assault rifle, Phillip Dominguez said he’s confident he’ll be exonerated.
“I’m a law-abiding, taxpaying gun enthusiast. I have no felonies up until now,” Dominguez said.
Airport police saw it a little differently.
“In the post-Sept. 11 (2001) environment, it is well-known by weapon owners that airports and weapons simply do not mix,” said Los Angeles Airport Police Chief George Centeno.
“He just made a very bad decision, and should not have been carrying those weapons,” airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb said on Friday. A call to an airport police spokesman seeking further comment Saturday was not immediately returned.
Dominguez, 47, of Orange, said he went to the Los Angeles airport to pick up a friend from Baltimore on Friday. They intended to go target shooting at an outdoor range in San Bernardino County.
As Dominguez entered the airport’s ring road, his truck was pulled over for inspection. Dominguez says he knew police would want to look inside the locked cover of the truck bed so he got out, opened it and declared that he had firearms there.
Dominguez said he had 16 pistols, including an 1858 black-powder Army revolver. He also had five rifles one of them an assault rifle and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Dominguez said he didn’t think he was breaking any laws since all the weapons and ammunition were in separate, locked boxes. At least half a dozen times since Thanksgiving, Dominguez said he made similar stops at the airport carrying his guns and never saw a police checkpoint.
He showed officials the paperwork proving the assault rifle was registered and gave them the keys and combinations of all the lockboxes, he said.
Dominguez said he was handcuffed, taken to a jail, and held for six hours before he was booked. He was released after his family posted $50,000 bail. But his guns and his truck were confiscated.
He faces a Feb. 6 arraignment.
Dominguez, who owns a construction company - as well as about 80 guns – says he doesn’t blame airport authorities for stopping his truck for inspection. But he believes security should be looking for ex-felons and bank robbers. And he intends to fight.
“I’m contacting their worst nightmare - an attorney,” he said.
Dominguez’ laywer, Bruce Colodny, said it’s true that carrying weapons at airports is a sensitive subject but “there’s nothing sinister about this. Despite the fact they’re controversial, assault weapons continue to be lawfully possessed.”
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Most of the news media is buzzing about the closing of Gitmo and the progress of the court cases of the alleged hijackers from September 11, 2001. ABC had these observations (the red quote by KSM is the most interesting):
With victims’ family members in attendance, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks asked to postpone an earlier offer to plead guilty to murder charges and voiced concern that he might not be sentenced to death if he and his co-defendants plead guilty.
“Are you saying if we plead guilty we will not be permitted under the law to be sentenced to death?” he asked Army Col. Stephen Henley, the judge presiding over the pretrial hearing in the war-crimes case at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, also known as KSM, is facing charges of murdering 2,973 people. He has admitted to developing the plot to fly airplanes into buildings and allegedly insisted the planes hit buildings, even when Osama bin Laden purportedly said hijacking them and crashing them in the ground would be enough.
Only in America do you get to plead guilty and have a lesser sentence. I guess Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was thinking he was in his home country where you can be executed for just about anything.
KSM will have to wait a few more years before he is martyred as he wishes. When he does eventually die he will appear before the [one and only] Almighty God (יהוה), where l am sure lesser sentences will not apply.
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Hell must have truly frozen over: the Star Telegram [AKA the Startle Gram] ran a positive story on firearms. It is great to hear this gentleman finally got a family heirloom back in his possession.
This story is a good reminder for all of us to keep an updated list of our firearms and their serial numbers.
Mystery solved: Woman on WWII vet’s gun ID’d
Posted on Sat, Aug. 30, 2008
Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler spent much of early Friday morning on the phone, talking to people about the Case of the Dark-Haired Beauty on the .45 Pistol.But none of the callers could answer Fowler’s questions about the seized weapon — who was the woman in the photos beneath the pistol’s custom plexiglass grips and who was the gun’s owner?Then, about mid-morning, an emotional Jim Morris called from his home in Stephenville with a story about a Nebraska girl who met a young officer from Texas and sent him off to fight the Germans.
Within a few hours, the case was solved.
“I have no doubt it’s his pistol,” Fowler said. “It’s a great ending to a mystery.”
Morris, 62, can hardly believe that he opened his morning Star-Telegram and saw his father’s service weapon and his mother’s picture, in the hands of the Parker County sheriff. He had all but given up hope he would see it again.
“Nothing in this world that I owned had more sentimental value to me,” he said. “That gun meant the world to me. It means the world to me. I was in tears when I read that article.”
Last October, someone stole three guns from Morris’ house, including his father’s .45-caliber Army pistol. He filed a police report with Stephenville but did not have the serial numbers.
Two months later, sheriff’s deputies in Parker County seized the weapon while executing a search warrant at a house near Azle. But because the serial number wasn’t in a crime database, they didn’t know to whom it belonged. They put it in a property room, where Fowler — a history buff — found it this month and renewed a search for the rightful owner.
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, James L. Morris — born in Palestine, reared in Maypearl — dropped out of the Texas Tech University engineering program and enlisted in the Army. The Army sent him to officer candidate school in Virginia.
There he met Velma Cashatt, a girl from Harrison, Neb., who had gone to Washington, D.C., to work for the government during the war.
They married before he shipped out with the 82nd Engineer Combat Battalion, which landed at Omaha Beach two weeks after D-Day. Morris served as the battalion’s executive officer and later its commanding officer as the unit fought through France and Germany in 1944 and ’45, including the Battle of the Bulge.
“He got to see a lot of the horrors of that time,” his son said.
The custom, plexiglass hand grips came from the windshield of a crashed German bomber.
“His men took that windshield out and made those grips for his weapon,” Jim Morris said. “They really admired him.”
His father died last September at the age of 89. His mother died in 2005.
About 10 years before his father died, Jim Morris, a retired Navy chief petty officer, asked him for the gun. After losing it for nine months, he plans to drive to Weatherford on Tuesday to retrieve it and thank Fowler.
“I never thought I would see it again,” he said. “My son will get it when I pass away.”
Fowler, for his part, isn’t quite done with the case.
“I expect I’ll be filing charges of possession of stolen property on the guy who had it,” he said.
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