SCOTUS Denies Airport Gun Arrest Appeal

falcon · 01-18-2011, 07:11 AM

This Utah man got stranded in the Newark, NJ airport. He made a boo-boo and took possession of his luggage that contained a gun. The SCOTUS has declined to hear the appeal of his arrest.

Revell was flying from Salt Lake City to Allentown, Pa., on March 31, 2005, with connections in Minneapolis and Newark, N.J. He had checked his Utah-licensed gun and ammunition with his luggage in Salt Lake City and asked airport officials to deliver them both with his luggage in Allentown.

......................... Revell missed his connection to Allentown. The airline wanted to bus its passengers to Allentown, but Revell realized that his luggage had not made it onto the bus and got off. After finding his luggage had been given a final destination of Newark by mistake, Revell missed the bus. He collected his luggage, including his gun and ammunition, and decided to wait in a nearby hotel with his stuff until the next flight in the morning.

When Revell tried to check in for the morning flight, he again informed the airline officials about his gun and ammunition to have them checked through to Allentown. He was reported to the TSA, and then arrested by Port Authority police for having a gun in New Jersey without a New Jersey license.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/...urt_gun_arrest

sachiko · 01-18-2011, 07:15 AM

It says the police dropped the charges and his gun was returned. It doesn't sound like there is a case there for the Supreme Court to hear.

bergall · 01-20-2011, 12:55 PM

It's a darn shame the cops don't apply any sense to the enforcement of garbage like this. Sure, the charges were dropped...the gun was returned....does this guy have the ability to sue the state of NJ for being morons and costing him thousands in legal fees ?
Also, if he lives to be 1000, he will forever be answering for that arrest to anyone authorzed to ask the questions (employers for one !). It's a shame and an embarrassment !

North Texan · 01-20-2011, 05:09 PM

Generally, gun control laws get put on the books in states where they are popular with the citizens. Those citizens include law enforcement. What may seem like common sense to you and I may differ from what most in New Jersey see as common sense. Remember that they think gun possession causes crime.

The Rev · 01-20-2011, 05:41 PM

I'm between two schools here at the hotel I'm staying (for another week). Either way I go to work each morning means I'm within a 1000 ft. of a school. It just takes one over zealous cop to make my life miserable. I think of situations like this each morning while driving to the job site, and there's no way I'm leaving my pistol in a hotel room!

bergall · 01-21-2011, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by North Texan

Generally, gun control laws get put on the books in states where they are popular with the citizens. Those citizens include law enforcement. What may seem like common sense to you and I may differ from what most in New Jersey see as common sense. Remember that they think gun possession causes crime.

You're quite right...I find that to be true especially in affluent areas where the cops and the people are both generally libturds.... Now I respect LEO's, but I can't abide the pukes who allow personal bias to dictate the virulence with which they enforce the law....

bergall · 01-21-2011, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by The Rev

I'm between two schools here at the hotel I'm staying (for another week). Either way I go to work each morning means I'm within a 1000 ft. of a school. It just takes one over zealous cop to make my life miserable. I think of situations like this each morning while driving to the job site, and there's no way I'm leaving my pistol in a hotel room!

I'd rather 'take the chance' of being caught with the thing on me,
rather than "taking the chance' that some mutant will lift my property from the hotel rooom I'm staying in...that's all I'd need, is the idea that somebody's using my hardware to cause mischief, mayhem and grief.