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Title: New Jersey Security Guard Arrested for Gun He Has Permit to Carry
Source: Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/2020/03/10/new-j ... or-gun-he-has-permit-to-carry/
Published: Mar 10, 2020
Author: Brian Doherty
Post Date: 2020-03-11 03:43:46 by Bill D Berger
Keywords: None
Views: 377
Comments: 8

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( Roger Lamkin)

Every petty excuse for the police to bother you is a loose trigger for further injustice. Roosevelt Twyne, a 25-year-old security guard who is African American, is learning this in New Jersey.

Pulled over last month on his way home from work in Roselle Park, New Jersey, for having tinted windows on his car, Twyne informed the police he had his work-related weapon in his possession. The police arrested him, claiming he was carrying both an illegally transported gun and illegal hollow-point ammunition.

According to Twyne's lawyer, Evan Nappen, Twyne had a permit to carry a gun in the state. Nappen insists that permit should have covered the alleged illegality of transporting the weapon in his car. Nappen further points out the brand of ammunition in the car—supplied by his employer—is specifically listed as legal on a New Jersey State Police website.

Nappen said in a phone interview yesterday that the police have come around about the ammunition, and those particular charges have been dropped.

However, Twyne still faces potential prosecution for the weapon charge.

The police insisted to Fox News that "Twyne was charged after it was determined that he was not in compliance with the specifications of the law pertaining to the lawful transportation of his firearm. These charges were approved by the Union County Prosecutor's Office."

The police said in a statement provided to a local TV station that Twyne had his weapon loaded and holstered on his person. Nappen says in an email that a legal requirement to "have a firearm cased and unloaded" under New Jersey statute 2c:39(6g) applies only if one is "transporting by way of exemption, which is inapplicable here. Mr. Twyne was transporting by way of his Chapter 58 NJ Permit to Carry a Handgun, not by way of inapplicable exemptions."

Twyne is being charged under 2C:39-9(d), which states that:

Any person who manufactures, causes to be manufactured, transports, ships, sells or disposes of any weapon, including gravity knives, switchblade knives, ballistic knives, daggers, dirks, stilettos, billies, blackjacks, metal knuckles, sandclubs, slingshots, cesti or similar leather bands studded with metal filings, or, except as otherwise provided in subsection i. of this section, in the case of firearms if he is not licensed or registered to do so as provided in chapter 58, is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

(Emphasis mine.)

Nappen insists that Twyne "has a NJ Permit to Carry a Handgun issued pursuant to Chapter 58" which applies to both his job and getting to and from his job, and does not require the gun to be cased and unloaded as it would if he were merely carrying under a set of statutory exemptions to the laws about possessing handguns.

Jersey gun laws are "very confusing," Nappen grants, and it "is very difficult for citizens, police, and even prosecutors" to figure out what is and isn't legal (not much is) because of "stupid gun laws."

Nappen, who specializes in the state's gun laws, insists he understands things the police and prosecutors bedeviling Twyne do not. "The government is attempting to conflate legally irrelevant requirements under exemptions that do not apply" to a permit-holder like Twyne.

New Jersey's carry laws can be tough to figure out for Americans doing their best to comply and have led to serious disruption to the lives of people who have done no harm. Two notorious cases are indicative of this: Shaneen Allen, an African American single mother of two who was naive enough to think being licensed to carry in her native Pennsylvania would protect her from Jersey cops (and who only evaded jail after huge public outcry), and Brian Aitken, who was sentenced to seven years for having a legally owned gun unloaded and locked in his trunk because it was legally owned in a state that wasn't New Jersey (he thankfully had his sentence commuted after a few months by Gov. Chris Christie).

Twyne has been charged with a 4th-degree felony, which could come with 18 months in prison.

Whether or not Twyne is vindicated by the law as Nappen insists he should and will be, this arrest—caused by a wicked combination of the police's nearly unlimited power to harass drivers and New Jersey's convoluted gun laws—has already seriously harmed Twyne, causing him to be suspended from his job, as he told Fox News. "It's a little hard right now trying to find something to keep me on my feet." He currently has a court date scheduled for April 2.

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#1. To: Bill D Berger, 4um (#0)

I guess arresting and charging people who are within the law seems to be the new thing.

Yesterday I read on ZH that Alex Jones was arrested and charged with DUI even though his BAC was below the legal limit, now this. Curious.

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Esso  posted on  2020-03-11   9:04:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Esso (#1)

It's called ****ing with people.

Way back when in the old days of talk radio, there was a Detroit station that hosted call-ins.

On call was from a black guy who kept getting nailed by a cop driving a city cop car. I forget what township exactly. This young guy was practically in tears telling how this cop would stop him on the flimsiest pretexts making the driver late for work every day. He said that he was sure to lose his job soon. The host of the show was sympathetic. I never heard what the outcome to the story was.

Another call to the same station was in response to some corruption charges in the Detroit PD. She told of being a Rosy the Riveter worker in the Motor City in WW II. She said that she was walking to work one day and was forced into a police car where she was raped. She knew the officer that had raped her by name, but she was afraid to report the crime. She also related that the officer - whom she would not name - subsequently had a great career with the DPD rising to the rank of detective inspector. He became a respected community figure.

Both callers were genuinely upset - distraught. A listener could tell that the stories weren't phony by the tenor of voice of the speakers.

This shit is nothing new. Only sociopaths behave this way. Scum rises to the top.

randge  posted on  2020-03-11   9:54:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: randge, Esso, 4um (#2)

It's called ****ing with people.

There's no shortage of that.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2020-03-11   11:39:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Esso (#1)

charged with DUI even though his BAC was below the legal limit,

I got pulled over by a cop on a gravel road here. He wanted me to hop on one foot while wearing cowboy boots. I asked him if he was nuts. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-03-11   13:42:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

this is how it's done, just know when to shut-up

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2020-03-11   15:02:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

I have never had a problem with a law officer at a traffic stop even when my situation was kinda - marginal. That was way in the past.

Just the luck of the Irish somehow, and I ain't even Irish. :-o

randge  posted on  2020-03-11   15:22:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Lod (#5)

I had these two cops pull me over once on a gravel road. They wanted me to jump up and down on one foot when wearing cowboy boots. I told them they were nuts. Of course one of the cops was plain clothes and I saw him in the bar we were both in. So you think maybe they had me pegged? Not! ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-03-11   15:27:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Bill D Berger (#0)

Any person who manufactures, causes to be manufactured, transports, ships, sells or disposes of any weapon, including gravity knives, switchblade knives, ballistic knives, daggers, dirks, stilettos, billies, blackjacks, metal knuckles, sandclubs, slingshots, cesti or similar leather bands studded with metal filings, or, except as otherwise provided in subsection i. of this section, in the case of firearms if he is not licensed or registered to do so as provided in chapter 58, is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

When I worked concert security, I knew a couple of guys on the crew that wore sap gloves. Those gloves had lead shot stitched into the fingers. If you whacked someone upside the head with those it would ring their bell. ROTFLOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-03-11   15:30:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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