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Originally Posted by Flagg
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-m...002-story.html
....And it sounds like he may have lacked situation awareness for weapons carriage so close to a foreign and hostile country.
Aren't folks at risk of going to jail if they are pulled over legally carrying weapons in one state and illegally in the next?
What happens if someone accidentally crosses from Pennsylvania into New Jersey with a pistol and gets pulled over?
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Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, "Safe Passage" provision theoretically protects citizens briefly transiting states with a secured and unloaded firearm.
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Originally Posted by Richard
MOO, but any Westerner who willfully travels to such a conflicted area not on official "We, the people" governmental business, and in spite of the numerous reports and warnings, knowing full well the historical situation there and our limited influence and access, is telling our collective governments:
"Thank you very much for the information; I fully understand the risks but I'm checking the block which waives those reasonably implied 'guarantees' of my personal safety, absolving y'all of any responsibility in the matter, and going to do what I want to do anyway."
So be it.
RE: #4, #7 and #13. I may be in error, but it sounds to me as if the "we" being tossed around so freely, used in the context of such statements, means somebody else.
That being said, based upon my experiences, the supposition that "we" are doing little to nothing to attempt to resolve the dire straits in which this particular citizen placed himself, even if he checked that waiver box, is naive in the extreme.
Richard
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Richard, I tend to agree with you on this one.
Same for our citizens or residents traveling to Ebola infested areas.
Daniel Pearl was the wake-up call. Everyone since has known the potential consequences.
TR
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