Indiaana Man Arrested with "Assault Weapon" in NJ airport.

[The Keymaster]

Valparaiso man faces gun charge at NJ airport : Valparaiso Community News


Waiting for more on this. Someone school me...what "required documents" could they be speaking of? It says the airline knew about the weapon. It is unclear whether he tried to carry it on, or check it.

 

[SteveM4A1]

moral to the story: don't go to New Jersey.

 

[level0]

moral to the story: don't go to New Jersey.

Amen. The required document referenced above may be a passport - you need one traveling in and out of America!

 

[KLB]

moral to the story: don't go to New Jersey.

Just like most of the NE.

 

[87iroc]

Sales receipt maybe?

I didn't know assault rifles were even legal in NJ. Also, why was he going through security with it? He should have checked it at the baggage claim, shouldn't he?

 

[87iroc]

Valparaiso man faces gun charge at NJ airport : Valparaiso Community News


Waiting for more on this. Someone school me...what "required documents" could they be speaking of? It says the airline knew about the weapon. It is unclear whether he tried to carry it on, or check it.

From the article...

Adam Urbano tried to go through security in Terminal A on Wednesday night. He had told the airline about the gun.

 

[SteveM4A1]

Sales receipt maybe?

I didn't know assault rifles were even legal in NJ. Also, why was he going through security with it? He should have checked it at the baggage claim, shouldn't he?

You mean assault weapon, correct? And by that nomenclature, you also simply mean rifle?

 

[j706]

It makes me wonder if he was planning on declaring the rifle at check in but didn't make it that far. Who knows as the media has never gotten it right.

Not sure why but it seems almost every time I fly I end up in that nasty place. My last time there we were there for 18 hrs because of an ice storm. It is like being in a different country to me.

 

[Mark 1911]

It's hard to make heads or tails out of that article. Raises a lot of questions, no answers.

 

[jedi]

Poor guy he is so f***** for life!
Not sure what 'guilty of a crime of the third degree' means in NJ. Is that a felony?
That appears what he will be charged/sentenced with per
2C:39-5b Unlawful Possession of a Weapon

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

More BS East Coast drama. That's what you get for trying to let us know about the gun!

 

[87iroc]

You mean assault weapon, correct? And by that nomenclature, you also simply mean rifle?

I don't get hung up on terminology. I use clips and magazines fairly interchangeably. I have more important things to worry about. Besides if I would have made assault rifle purple it would have been accurate.

 

[jedi]

More BS East Coast drama. That's what you get for trying to let us know about the gun!

How ironic it was the 'east coast' that used firearms against their king (ie. King George) to declare their freedom and now they are "King George" themselves.
Yup history always repeats itself.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

This article has a bit more info.
Indiana man arrested in New Jersey airport with assault rifle | Fox 59 News ? fox59.com

It sounds like he may be screwed. He had it in his checked luggage, but according to the article he didn't declare it and it wasn't properly packed.

ETA according to this article he tried to carry it onto the plane.
Man arrested after trying to carry an assault weapon, ammo onto a plane at Newark airport | NJ.com

Who knows which is accurate?

 

[JettaKnight]

The magazines were loaded?!
He tried to transport in a soft case?!

A Soviet-style AK-47...and three loaded magazine clips...

for Fox59.

Who knows which is accurate?

Given the errors in the Fox59 story - I'd bet on the NJ.com report.

It appears he wasn't simply in NJ as part of a connection for travel, so he can't hide behind interstate travel laws at all, ergo, possession alone is enough to send him away.

 

[rnmcguire]

Why would anyone put themselves in this kind of situation? I mean come on this is really dumb. Surely everyone knows about the heightened state of fear when it comes to weapons and airplanes right? I would of researched every angle of the law before considering taking a weapon through a NJ airport. He's now at the mercy of the NJ courts. Sometimes you just have to wonder what people are thinking. Heck I can't even think of one good reason for ever visiting such a dumpster state anyway.

 

[88E30M50]

He was flying from Chicago to New Jersey and back with an AK? Wow, that's like asking to get arrested. It makes me wonder if that was not exactly what he was trying to do. He flew from Chicago to NJ with it checked and got no grief, so he tried to fly back with it in his carry on bag. That guarantees an arrest.

 

[jontylercole]

What are the NJ laws? Obviously not a concealed carry.

 

[MisterChester]

What are the NJ laws? Obviously not a concealed carry.

To sum it up, on the NJ page of handgunlaw.us the writer basically says "I would not bring a firearm into NJ"

 

[jkaetz]

I don't get hung up on terminology. I use clips and magazines fairly interchangeably. I have more important things to worry about. Besides if I would have made assault rifle purple it would have been accurate.

To use the term "assault XXXXX" is to legitimize the term which is nothing more than a made up term to describe a rifle based on its look and scare the uneducated into thinking that it is more dangerous than other rifles. Similarly we attempt to use standard magazine capacity rather that "High Capacity" magazine simply because it holds more than XXX rounds. I'll give you the clip vs magazine though I myself prefer to be correct in even the smaller details when attempting to argue something.