An Elgin woman along with her 14-year-old son were arrested on gun charges Friday after the mother fired a gun into the air in the Poplar Creek subdivision, police said today.
The boy was arrested after he allegedly brought out two rifles to his mother as she stood outside their home on the 1000 block of Peachtree Lane, according to a press release by the Elgin Police Department.
After police arrived, they were told that a woman had walked out of her home and confronted someone and then had fired a handgun into the air before returning to her home, police said.
Police said her 14-year-old son was charged after they became aware that the boy had brought two rifles out to his mother. After a searching the home, police confiscated three handguns and two rifles, officials said.
Mosley was charged with felony charges of aggavated unlawful use of a weapon, reckless discharge of a firearm and a misdemeanor charge of not having a valid firearm owner's identification card. Mosley's son was charged as a juvenile with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and not having a valid firearm owner's identification card.
Isn't failure to have a valid firearm owner's ID card the kind of thing Mike Vanderboegh and his buddy Kurt Hofmann recommend people do? I suppose the gun rights extremists will be coming to the defense of this woman now.
The problem I see is that people who live by the bad-laws-be-damned philosophy have a hard time distinguishing between the "bad laws" and those which should be respected.
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