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FL man accused of having guns on Capitol grounds

protias

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This was in Washington, D.C. No guns allowed anywhere. Technically you can register guns to have at your home, but not really.

Derp, I read too quickly and missed this part, "U.S. Capitol Police..." But still, how do you register a firearm for a place you are not a resident of? This article has so many things missing, like why the police confronted him and why they searched his car...
 

77zach

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Derp, I read too quickly and missed this part, "U.S. Capitol Police..." But still, how do you register a firearm for a place you are not a resident of? This article has so many things missing, like why the police confronted him and why they searched his car...

Floridians seem to believe every place respects unlicensed car/glovebox carry. The logic goes, "I can do it at home so I can do it here". Quaint, but not in Amerika. My dad took his gun up to NYC once. I was horrified when I found out when he returned.
 
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DrakeZ07

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Floridians seem to believe every place respects unlicensed car/glovebox carry. The logic goes, "I can do it at home so I can do it here". Quaint, but not in Amerika. My dad took his gun up to NYC once. I was horrified when I found out when he returned.

Well, those Floridians would be correct in atleast one small way ... You dont need a license to carry in your glovebox [or other factory installed compartment, and Openly viewed] in Kentucky... So, they may be wrong with the other forty-something states and the Capital, but they would be correct with one place :3

The more you know.
 

JoeSparky

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So, why did this guy--
first, talk with the police and
second, agree to a search of his car?

If you can't use your US Constitutional Rights YOU DON'T HAVE THEM! I have heard a variant of this statement someplace... I just wish I remembered which Open Carry National Online Forum I was on when I read it! :lol:
 
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