Nyc, gun law, airport travel.

2009-07-29 Thread Jk
Hi All, A friend of mine just got arrested in ny on an illegal weapons charge. They were travelling back to la thru a ny airport, when they went to the counter to declare their firearm (unloaded, locked hard container) they got arrested for illegal possession of a pistol. Point of

Re: Nyc, gun law, airport travel.

2009-07-29 Thread Jk
Wow. Thank you all for the information. It completely stuns me. My favorite is that the whole thing does nothing to catch the import of the firearm but seems to be set up to catch people as they are peaceably leaving the state with their offending device. So assuming the fopa route will

Re: Shotguns as recommended for self-defense for some people, over handguns

2009-02-15 Thread Jk
Hi all, I am sorry for the delay in responding to this thread and I don't mean to resurrect its mostly dead state, but, since I was able to put together a test case, it seemed reasonable to put it forward. I was reading the large number of comments about the shotgun being too unwieldy to be