Tax Fraud Conviction Costs Gun Rights Advocate his Firearms

 Nazir Al-Mujaahid

Picayune Post

A Milwaukee man who briefly became the face of the nascent concealed carry movement right after he shot an armed robber at grocery retailer in 2012 now has a week to get rid of all his guns.
That's since on Friday, Nazir Al-Mujaahid was discovered guilty of tax fraud, and the felony convictions make it illegal for him to possess a firearm, a consequence his attorney known as "an exceptionally serious punishment" since of his situations.

Susan Roth mentioned her client has been threatened and confronted by relatives of the robber he shot and has ongoing issues for his safety. He plans to appeal Friday's conviction.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Timothy Witkowiak, who presided more than the non-jury trial final month, stated he discovered the testimony of 3 law enforcement agents who stated Al-Mujaahid had admitted to filing false returns extra credible than the defendant's denials. He also noted that a lot other circumstantial proof, like computer records, tied Al-Mujaahid to the fraudulent tax returns.

More on the Ghost Gun Problem

Florida Man Arrested Immediately for Accidentally Shooting (Killing) His Friend

Local news

A South Florida man is facing manslaughter charges after an accidental shooting death. 

The Miami Herald reported Monday that Josue Sanchez was arrested after he mishandled his gun and fatally shot 19-year-old Lazaro Martinez in a Hialeah parking lot Friday night. 

Hialeah police say the 20-year-old Sanchez, Martinez and another person were smoking marijuana in a parking lot and were taking photos with the gun. Sanchez pulled the trigger, striking Martinez, who died Saturday. 

Police say Sanchez was charged with manslaughter because he displayed a reckless disregard for safety while under the influence.

Blind Ohio Gun Owner Charged in His Daughter's Accidental Shooting

Local news reports

Bond was set at $100,000 yesterday for a legally blind Toledo man charged with accidentally shooting his toddler.

Michael C. Reyes, 27, was arraigned in Toledo Municipal Court on charges of possessing weapons while under disability and negligent assault in the weekend shooting of Kaylee Reyes.

The shooting occurred about 1:45 p.m. Saturday in the family’s residence, according to police. The toddler was admitted to the pediatric intensive-care unit of Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center.

Reyes told police he was holding the handgun when it went off and a bullet struck his 3-year-old daughter, according to court documents.

William Dong - Persecuted Good Guy or Dangerous Gun Owner?

 William Dong

 Ammoland

Just days after the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a 23-year old college student in Connecticut was a victim of another gun-related tragedy.

No guns were fired, no one was physically injured, but even so, a life was ruined. William Dong was licensed in Connecticut to carry a concealed handgun. He worked for an armored car company and, along with being a good student, and hard worker, he was a budding firearm enthusiast.

Like all of us, Dong was deeply disturbed by the atrocity in Newtown and the subsequent media hype surrounding that tragic event. And like many people, especially those near the event, he developed a fear of something like that happening again and being helpless to do anything about it. He was reassured by his own ability to carry and effectively use a handgun, but also wanted to have a good personal-defense carbine. That’s where William Dong made his first mistake; on a trip to Pennsylvania he purchased an AR-style rifle from a private seller.

It’s not illegal to purchase a long gun in another state in a face-to-face transaction, but out-of-state purchases should be made through a licensed dealer.

Since the rifle he purchased had a collapsible stock and other “military” features, it was subsequently banned in Connecticut, compounding Dong’s mistake.

Out of concern that a Virginia Tech-style attack could occur at his school, Dong discreetly carried his licensed handgun while attending classes. This was his second mistake. Though Connecticut law does not ban firearms on college campuses, the owner or manager of any property can forbid guns and, unlike most states, where violation of such a prohibition is misdemeanor trespassing, in Connecticut it’s a serious felony punishable by up to 3 years in prison. UNH includes a firearm prohibition in their student code of conduct.

Dong’s third mistake was deciding he was going to take a trip to the range after class one day and putting his rifle and extra ammo in his car in preparation for that range session. He parked the car off campus, and made a point of placing the rifle out of view behind the driver’s seat before walking to class.

A homeless woman saw Dong transferring the rifle to the back seat, and with visions of Sandy Hook dancing in her head, she called the police to report a man with a gun headed toward the campus of UNH. Police and SWAT teams mobilized as Dong hurried to biology class. He was in the middle of a test when the school went into lockdown, and he was peacefully taken into custody a few minutes later.

Dong eventually pled guilty to one count of illegal sale and transfer of an “assault weapon” and two counts of illegal possession of a pistol. He was sentenced to eight years, with supervised release after two if he behaves in prison. Now a felon, he loses his right to firearms for life. He still faces prosecution on federal charges for the way he acquired the rifle.

Surveillance Video Of Murder-Suicide Suspect Buying Gun

Local news

Queens NY Murder Suicide - 4 Dead 1 Wounded

Jonathon Walker

Huffington Post

In the quiet of a pre-dawn Saturday on a dead-end street, a father came home and shot his family in their heads, leaving women in three generations dead and a wounded 12-year-old girl calling 911, police said.

"What I did, I cannot come back from," Jonathon Walker told his brother by phone soon afterward, police said. And Walker did not come back - police said he killed himself in his car on a desolate street a few miles away, ending a burst of violence that stunned relatives who said the family hadn't shown signs of trouble.

The 34-year-old security guard had killed his 7-year-old daughter, Kayla Walker; his 31-year-old girlfriend, Shantai Hale; and Hale's mother, Viola Warren, 62. His and Hale's older daughter, whom a relative identified as Christina Walker, was hospitalized in stable condition, police said.
Investigators were trying to trace Walker's movements before the shooting as relatives struggled to comprehend shootings that struck them as inexplicable.

"I can't believe this happened. I can't believe this happened," Doreen Warren, the eldest victim's mother, sobbed by phone.

While Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said police had taken reports for domestic incidents at the home in 2005 and 2006 for "nominal matters" and Walker had been arrested twice in now-sealed cases, relatives said they weren't aware of any family strife or concerns about Walker.

Lawful Gun Owners Need to be Reminded to Behave

Missouri Man Wounded in Shooting Accident - Victim Says No Charges Necessary

Local news reports

A Washington man is recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained Wednesday night at his residence, police said.

Police identified the victim as Andrew Broder, 21, who was struck in both feet by a bullet that was fired inside his home.

Police Chief Ken Hahn said Broder and two other men were sitting in the home’s living room when the accident occurred.

Hahn said another man, Lucus Coulter, 21, Washington, was sitting on the couch next to Broder and had a handgun in his lap. Coulter told police when he picked up the gun he accidentally pulled the trigger, firing the weapon.

Hahn said Coulter admitted to drinking and smoking marijuana prior to the accident.

The victim said the shooting was accidental and told police he did not want to prosecute, according to Hahn.

Maybe this is a new beginning.  When gun nuts admit they pulled the trigger instead of blaming the gun, they get a pass. 

The comforting thing is that so few gun owners smoke pot and drink while handling their guns.

Philadelphia Dad Charged with Manslaughter for Fatally Shooting Man in Daughter’s Bedroom

Charles Jordan, 41, left, Marc Carrion, 32, and Brenda Jordan, 20.

Guns dot com

A Philadelphia father was arraigned Monday for voluntary manslaughter charges that he faces after fatally shooting a man he found in his daughter’s bedroom last month.

Charles Jordan, 41, maintains his innocence and said he only shot at 32-year-old Marc Carrion because he felt threatened and believed Carrion had broken into his home.

On Sept. 15, around 11:30 p.m., Jordan grabbed his handgun when he heard unfamiliar noises coming from the bedroom of his daughter, Brenda. Jordan told authorities that after he entered her bedroom, he noticed something out of place about Brenda’s window before he found Carrion crouched down in a corner next to the window, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Jordan said he believed that Carrion had broken into the home through his daughter’s window, but would later discover that his daughter had invited Carrion, whom she had known for about a month, up to the second-floor apartment.

Wasn't there a case like this last year in which the reactionary dad was not charged? Or is this just one of those lengthy investigations that results in charges?

Gun Criminal Tahmooressi Released

The weapons and ammunition confiscated from Andrew's Tahmooressi's vehicle.

NBC

A jailed U.S. Marine veteran who spent eight months behind bars in Mexico for crossing the border with loaded guns arrived back in the U.S. Friday night.

A Mexican judge ordered the immediate release of retired Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi on Friday, according to family spokesman Jonathan Franks.

Robert J. Lintner, Victim of Domestic Stabbing, Indicted on Weapons Charges

NJ dot com and further to our earlier report

A Saddle Brook man found with more than 300 pounds of gunpowder and 195 firearms in his township home after his wife stabbed him over the summer was indicted Tuesday on weapons charges, authorities said.

Robert J. Lintner, 65, was charged in a 10-count indictment with having five illegal assault rifles and 65 outlawed high-capacity ammunition magazines, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement. Authorities said three of the seized rifles were submachine guns.

The seized weapons included a Sten 9mm machine gun, an Auto Ordnance Corp. Thompson submachine gun and a US Carbine M1 short assault rifle, according to the indictment.

Bergen County Police Department bomb technicians removed the hundreds of pounds of black and smokeless gunpowder from Lintner’s Washington Street home in August, the prosecutor said. The legal limit of black gunpowder that can be stored residentially is 50 pounds and 100 pounds for the smokeless variety.

Georgia Man Charged with Murder

Detray Shivers

The New York Daily News

The tragic shooting death of a 2-year-old Georgia boy, once thought accidental, was actually a murder, police said.

Detray Shiver, 25, had been charged with shooting and killed his nephew, little Kamarri Lewis, on Monday morning in Stone Mountain, Ga. His wife, Alexia Thomas, 23, is accused of dumping the handgun into a sewer drain outside the Dekalb County home.

The aunt and uncle were already jailed on neglect charges after they first told police the child found the pistol and shot himself around 10 a.m. Monday. The couple was meant to be watching the boy while his mother was at work, but Shiver claimed he wasn’t home at the time of the shooting, while Thomas told cops she was asleep.

But an autopsy found the boy could not have shot himself and was ruled a homicide.

 
The couple is also each charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and felony possession of cocaine with intent to distribute after cops found drugs at the Third Street home.

In Missouri - Guns, Pot, Alcohol and Stupidity

Makenzie Halinski


Local news reports

An eastern Missouri woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally shooting her boyfriend with a gun that she believed wasn’t loaded.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 21-year-old Makenzie Halinski of Festus was sentenced Wednesday in the June 2013 death of 20-year-old Cole Campbell. She pleaded guilty in June.

Halinski had been drinking and smoking marijuana. She told police that Campbell had been showing her how to use guns, handed her a gun and told her it was unloaded and the safety was on.

Halinski told authorities that she pointed the gun at Campbell and shot, believing the gun wasn’t loaded. The bullet hit Campbell in the forehead.

Michigan Lawful Gun Owner Gets Caught Doing His Thing

Local news reports

A Kingsford man has been arraigned after an accidental gun shot injured a woman who was near him.

Authorities say 64-year-old Jack Strong shot a pistol at a bag of cans near a woman. She was hit by bullet shrapnel.

Strong is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, careless discharge causing injury or death and possession of a firearm under the influence.  

Adam Kokesh Convicted of Drug, Gun Charges

Santa Fe Local News

Former Santa Fe resident Adam Kokesh, a liberterian activist who was convicted of drug and gun charges Thursday in a Fairfax County, Va., court, did not contest the allegations, but he called the raid that led to his arrest “political persecution.”

Kokesh, 32, entered an Alford plea in Circuit Court to two felonies related to his possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while possessing a gun. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to obtain a conviction.

Kokesh faces a maximum of 15 years in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 5.

Kokesh unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District in 2010, a seat now held by U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat. He grew up in Santa Fe, the son of Marla and Charles Kokesh. The elder Kokesh was a California venture capitalist who moved to Santa Fe in the 1990s to buy the Santa Fe Horse Park but ran into financial misfortunes, including foreclosures on the horse park and his home, and federal charges of misappropriating investor funds.

Adam Kokesh was arrested in July, when federal and local authorities raided the Virginia home he shared with other activists.

Prosecutors said Thursday that police found 10 guns and drugs, including LSD, marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and mushrooms.

More Background on Aaron Ybarra

Huffington Post

The man charged with killing one student and wounding two others at a small Seattle college last week had stopped taking his medications because he "wanted to feel the hate," and he detailed his plans in a handwritten journal for two weeks before the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

"I just want people to die, and I'm gonna die with them!" Aaron Ybarra wrote the day of the shooting, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said.

Satterberg released new details of the allegations as he filed charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault against Ybarra, 26. Satterberg is seeking a sentence of life in prison.

Authorities say Ybarra has been held without bail and is on suicide watch at the county jail since a student pepper-sprayed him and ended the rampage Thursday at Seattle Pacific University.

Ybarra's lawyer, Ramona Brandes, has said her client has a long history of mental issues but is aware of the trauma caused by the shooting and is sorry. She said Tuesday that no decision has been made yet on whether he will seek a mental-illness defense.

"We have to look at his symptoms he manifested in the past, his treatment and his jail records to determine whether his mental illness arises to the level of a defense. These are choices he's going to be involved in," Brandes told The Seattle Times. "He wasn't on his meds and he committed an action that is incomprehensible. Had he been on his meds, would this have happened? We'll continue asking that for all time."

Minnesota Lawful Gun Owner Loses It, Threatens Neighbor, Gets Arrested

Who Shot the Sign?

  Answers

1. drug dealers
2. gang members
3. lawful gun owners

The Way May-Issue Works in Illinois

The Truth About Guns

TTAG Reader Shawn writes from the Land of Lincoln:

"My concealed carry license application was denied. I can forward you the full explanation of reasons of possible denial but the short version is: I was arrested 6 years ago for domestic battery, charges were dropped. I was admitted voluntarily for a week to a psychiatric ward ten years ago. That's it. Anyway, I'm in the process of figuring out how to appeal it. In that process, aside from contacting the Illinois State Police, I sent an email to the folks over at Illinois Carry. They in turn forwarded my info to the NRA, and I just got off the phone with a nice lady over there. They're putting together of a list of some bullsh*t denials to see what they can do about it." Watch this space.

It seems to me the "charges were dropped" can mean a lot of things. That's exactly why may-issue is so important.  Many people who have not sustained the requisite felony conviction are absolutely unfit to own guns and carry them in public. The arresting officer in this case might have had information about the man that is relevant.

An arrest for domestic battery is not like a simple restraining order.  An angry wife can sometimes get a restraining order for little or no reason, but people aren't arrested by the cops and taken to jail for domestic battery for no reason. 

All right, let's hear it.  Let's hear the pro-gun support of wife-beating thugs who want carry permits.