from ssgmarkcr
This has finally
surfaced in the big media outlets. I have this vision of Christie
doing a face-palm as he reads the morning paper and sees his state
making a bigger reputation for itself.
"A
retired teacher is facing 10 years in prison and the loss of his state
pension for possessing a flintlock pistol that may not have been fired
since George Washington was alive, his attorney told FoxNews.com on
Wednesday."
“This
is a Queen Anne flintlock, which is a very pretty gun," Nappen said.
"The barrel looks like a cannon and it has a single shot – you have to
actually untwist the barrel to load it – it’s pretty involved to even
attempt to load it. But the craftsmanship is from the 1760s, and it’s
just magnificent to think that every piece of it was handmade.”
But
New Jersey law does not exempt antique firearms, said Nappen, who
recently defended a Pennsylvania single mother who was pulled over just
across the New Jersey border with a registered gun she carried for
protection. In that case,
Nappen helped his client avoid a 3-year mandatory minimum sentence only
after widespread publicity including extensive coverage by Fox News led
the state Attorney General's Office to drop the case."
“One
of the undersheriffs said, ‘Well, let him go, it’s 250 years old,’" Van
Gilder said. "But his boss, who is the sheriff, said, ‘No, we have to
arrest him.’ Next morning, I am sleeping and hear pounding on the door,
and four of them came and took me away with three or four sheriff’s cars
-- I guess they didn’t have anything better to do with taxpayer money.”
“I
was fingerprinted and I was chained by my legs to an ice cold bench.
Apparently there must be a lot of drive-by flintlock shootings in North
Jersey,” he quipped bitterly."
So apparently, the officer on the scene applied some common sense and
said take it home, and then they came for him the next day. Looks like
the Nappen law firm doesn't have to worry about having any lack of
clients in the near future.
