War hero arrested in NY state and charged with 5 felonies for possesion of 30 round magazines

this statement makes more sense every day

This has nothing to do with Executive orders.

NY State laws just passed ban this type of mag.

You know the worst part? We did this to ourselves by giving up our natural rights because we were so ready to accept the pat answers post-911. The Patriot Acts, the TSA, the drones, the video surveillance, and now here we are, decorated war veterans are the "enemy". Talk about Twilight zone. We're living in a repressive Orwellian police state.

I think you've gone overboard with that post.

I live on the west coast of Central America in a large city where the violent crime rate is very low. It's much safer to live here than in a city in the USA.

In fact, the poster would do well to consider Panama over Belize. The infrastructure here is much better.

We have a state of the art John Hopkins Hospital here, an international airport, large fancy malls, a multitude of nice restaurants, bars, and clubs, wine festivals, casinos, a major venue concert hall that attracts bands like Metallica, a large American expat community, a private banking sector that rivals Switzerland's (admittedly not as private as before, though if you have Panamanian residency, you're protected), and you could still live well on $2000 a month (probably not as well as in Belize, though it depends on your definition of living well).

To my understanding, it's just been made much easier and cheaper for Americans (and Europeans) to get residency here. I think if you're bringing in $2000 a month (and this is certainly true if it's a pension), you'd qualify. Check with an immigration attorney to be sure.

Also, to the poster who is considering moving to Central America, you must beat that drug charge, or you aren't going anywhere. You will be required to prove that you are not a felon before any country will allow you to immigrate there.

If it was a 30 round mag that was not pre-94 ("pre-ban"), I think it was not legal before the new NY law either. So there would be no grandfathering, no time to sell out of state.

I don't know what burden of proof there is about whether a mag is pre-94 or not.

War heroes and gun owners are now considered to be terrorists.....

What exactly is a "vehicle check"?

If he does get stuck with a felony record, then while permanent residency and citizenship will be very hard to get without knowing the right officials, he can still expatriate by becoming a permanent tourist. The limitation would be that he'll have to leave whatever country he is staying in from time to time to reset the timer on his tourist entry visa or stamp. And, he'll likely not be allowed to stay in any country more than 180 days out of the year, no matter how many times he exits the country. So, he may need to have 2 or 3 countries to stay in over time. But it's easy to do when most countries of the world are no bigger than a US state.

So, perhaps Belize and Panama would be good choices if he has the funds to regularly travel back and forth between the two. Otherwise, perhaps Belize-Guatamala, Belize-Mexico or Panama-Costa Rica or Panama-Columbia, etc. would work.

Last spring they were throwing a banquet in this guys honor attended by 400 people including a 2 star general.

9 months later he's facing 5 felony charges for being caught in possesion of 5 30 round magazines at a "registration check" road block.

A suggestion.

Choppedlow permalink
January 31, 2013 9:27 AM EST

Find the name of the prosecutor who is pushing this and post it online for everyone to see. These people who go after vets like this and not the rich media liberals, for something as stupid as a magazine, need their names and addresses brought out into the light.

[link to gunssavelives.net]

If they can publicize the names of law abiding gun owners, we can publicize the names of the people who are trying to turn us all into criminals.

You know the worst part? We did this to ourselves by giving up our natural rights because we were so ready to accept the pat answers post-911. The Patriot Acts, the TSA, the drones, the video surveillance, and now here we are, decorated war veterans are the "enemy". Talk about Twilight zone. We're living in a repressive Orwellian police state.

A shredding of the 4th amendment. Just like everything else cops do these days.

Being a "Hero" vet, he probably didn't think the law would apply to him...

give this man a cigar!

he's got it right

This story is fake anyway

People on another forum were saying the same thing. That thiis report was fake. Any details on how/why this is fake?

Let me get this straight.

The cops searched his car, probably on a fishing expedition.

They didn't find the gun.

They found the magazines.

So he was arrested for having ammunition in his car?

What kind of crap has been going on in NY anyways?

Watertown is a rural area.

january 1st New York / Cuomo and his cronies banned all large capacity mags and AR15's..