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The Constitution\u2019s Red-Headed Stepchild \u2014 The Second Amendment.<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently, thanks to the invaluable Instapundit<\/a>, I read an article from <\/a>Shooting News Weekly<\/a><\/em> (which I have since supplemented with other research<\/a> and reading<\/a>), that describes what happened when a 22-year-old off-duty soldier, traveling in a Honda SUV in Washington, DC, was stopped by U.S. Park Police due to an expired license tag. The soldier, Jakob Noonan, is from Oklahoma and was only in DC because he has been mobilized as part of the National Guard safety task force sent to help protect DC and its residents. And his story illustrates all too well the hostility that some of our overseers harbor against those who desire to exercise our Constitutional right to protect ourselves in these somewhat dangerous time<\/p>\n

When the police stopped his vehicle, they spotted an empty pistol holster in the SUV and asked Noonan if he had a firearm in the vehicle. The young guardsman confirmed there was a firearm in the vehicle and that it was registered to him in his home state of Oklahoma, which is an open-carry state. But because he did not have a District of Columbia concealed-carry permit, the police decided to arrest and charge him under DC Code \u00a7 22-4504<\/a> for carrying a firearm without a license.<\/p>\n

DC\u2019s penalties for a violation of \u00a7 22-4504 are draconian. A conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $12,500 fine (for first-time offenders), and forfeiture of his firearm to DC. The SUV in which the young guardsman was riding is also subject to seizure and forfeiture to the DC government. And a conviction would automatically trigger federal law, 18 U.S. Code \u00a7 922(g)(1),<\/a> which would make it unlawful for him to possess any firearm in any state, even in Oklahoma which issued his carry permit. Such a penalty would not require a separate court proceeding. It becomes automatic upon a conviction by the DC court. And a subsequent prosecution for violating \u00a7 922<\/a> carries with it fines of up to $250,000 and a fifteen- year<\/em> prison sentence.<\/p>\n

All of that is quite a load of \u201cjustice<\/em>\u201d for a young National Guardsman, who was busted by the Park Police for honestly answering their question that he was in possession of a handgun, as authorized by his home state of record.<\/p>\n

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Ironies and contradictions abound:<\/p>\n