XPost: alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights, alt.guns, alt.rec.guns   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: tombiasi@optonline.net   
      
   On 7/17/2014 11:49 AM, Peter Franks wrote:   
   > On 7/17/2014 2:37 AM, RL wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "Being Honest Messed Up My Life"   
   >>   
   >> By Nicki Kenyon, July 14th 2014   
   >>   
   >> JPFO writer contributor, © 2014.   
   >>   
   >> Recently, a young, single, law abiding mom from Pennsylvania made the   
   >> mistake of driving into New Jersey, while carrying her legally purchased   
   >> firearm. Shaneen Allen says she did not know that her legally-obtained   
   >> concealed carry permit was not valid in New Jersey. She got the   
   >> concealed carry permit (after filling out paperwork, passing a   
   >> background check and getting mandatory training), because she wanted to   
   >> keep herself and her children safe. She had gotten robbed several times,   
   >> and this hard-working young lady, who works two jobs to support her   
   >> family, now may be facing a mandatory three years in prison for   
   >> accidentally crossing into New Jersey with her tool of self-defense.   
   >>   
   >> What? How could this be? Why?   
   >>   
   >> During a routine traffic stop, Allen did what she felt was the right   
   >> thing to do. She told the officer that she was licensed and was carrying   
   >> her firearm. And because she was honest...   
   >>   
   >> ...she now faces prison, charged with unlawful possession of a weapon   
   >> and of hollow-point bullets which were in the gun - a second-degree   
   >> felony in New Jersey, which holds a minimum sentence of three-years in   
   >> prison.   
   >   
   > "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free   
   > State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be   
   > infringed.   
   >   
   > There is no exception for New Jersey.   
   >   
   I live in Jersey, and believe me I am no fan of the gun laws.   
   States set the gun laws. If you travel around the country you need to   
   know the laws in each state.   
   How could she be so ignorant as to think she could carry in New Jersey?   
   Anyone who follows carry law knows to stay the hell out of Jersey.   
      
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