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Title: Man with guns at LAX decries arrest
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URL Source: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_11426566
Published: Jan 12, 2009
Author: Robert Jablon
Post Date: 2009-01-12 16:49:58 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: Man, guns, LAX, arrest
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The man arrested at Los Angeles International Airport with a trunk full of guns and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition said Saturday that he is a law-abiding weapons enthusiast who had no idea he might be breaking the law. A day after he was arrested for suspicion of felony transportation of an assault rifle, Phillip Dominguez said he's confident he'll be exonerated. "Our Second Amendment rights are being trampled in the name of law enforcement," Dominguez said. "I'm a law-abiding, taxpaying gun enthusiast. I have no felonies - up until now." Airport police saw it a little differently. "In the post-Sept. 11 environment, it is well-known by weapon owners that airports and weapons simply do not mix," said Los Angeles Airport Police Chief George Centeno. Dominguez, 47, of Orange, said he went to LAX to pick up a friend from Baltimore on Friday. They intended to go target shooting at an outdoor range in San Bernardino County. As Dominguez entered the airport's ring road, his truck was pulled over for inspection. Dominguez says he knew police would want to look inside the locked cover of the truck bed so he got out, opened it and declared that he had firearms there. Dominguez said he had 16 pistols, including an 1858 black-powder Army revolver. He also had five rifles - one of them an assault rifle - and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Dominguez said he didn't think he was breaking any laws since all the weapons and ammo were in separate, locked boxes. At least half a dozen times since Thanksgiving, Dominguez said he made similar stops at the airport carrying his guns and never saw a police checkpoint. He showed officials the paperwork proving the assault rifle was registered and gave them the keys and combinations of all the lockboxes, he said. The Bushmaster "Shorty," a semiautomatic rifle modeled on the military's AR-15, was the reason he was arrested. "It posed no threat to nobody," said Dominguez. Dominguez said he got state permission to own and use the assault rifle last month but the approval letter didn't mention it was illegal in California to make a pit stop while transporting the weapon from his home to the gun range. That code requires that "registered assault weapons may be transported only between specified locations," according to the Web site of the California Attorney General's Office. Dominguez said he was handcuffed, taken to a jail and held for six hours before he was booked. He was released at around 11 p.m. after his family posted $50,000 bail. But his guns and his truck were confiscated. He faces a Feb. 6 arraignment. Dominguez, who owns a construction company, says he doesn't blame airport authorities for stopping his truck for inspection, but he believes he isn't the target of the gun law. "I am being charged for a law that is meant for ex-felons and bank robbers, that kind of individual," Dominguez said. Dominguez's lawyer, Bruce Colodny, said it's true that carrying weapons at airports is a sensitive subject, but "there's nothing sinister about this. Despite the fact they're controversial, assault weapons continue to be lawfully possessed."
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#1. To: All, *libertarians*, *Jack-Booted Thugs* (#0)
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the american government is a disease masquerading as its own cure The PoliceCourtIndustrialcomplex steals another 50K from its subjects and destroys the life of another innocent. Ahhh BTW: Lesson #1. Never carry all of your guns and ammo in your car. Law or no law, they'll call you a criminal and confiscate it all. Why make it this easy on the jackboots. Lesson #2: never volunteer any information to JBT and volunteer to open your trunk.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Countries Without a Draft circa 2001 (You'll need this soon if you have kids) RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP 
#2. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
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"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
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