One year suspended and 10 days community service?

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jimpeel

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It pays to know people in high places. What if this had been one of us -- assuming any of us would ever be this stupid.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268762,00.html

Huckabee's Son Arrested With Gun at Little Rock Airport
Thursday , April 26, 2007

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —

David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at Little Rock's airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage.

"I removed the bag and asked Mr. Huckabee if he knew what he had in the bag," Little Rock police officer Arthur Nugent wrote in a report after being summoned to a security checkpoint. "He replied he did now."

Huckabee, 26, later pleaded guilty in Little Rock District Court after being charged with possessing a weapon in a prohibited place. District Judge Lee Munson gave Huckabee a one-year suspended jail sentence and ordered him into 10 days of community service — which Huckabee can avoid by paying $100. Huckabee will be on probation for a year. Fines and costs totaled $605.

The son of the former Arkansas governor holds a concealed weapons permit. The elder Huckabee, who said last week that Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui perhaps could have been stopped if a teacher or student had also been armed, also has a concealed weapons permit.

Neither the former governor nor David Huckabee returned telephone messages seeking comment.

Nugent said David Huckabee had a .40-caliber Glock pistol in his black carry-on bag. Eight live rounds were in the gun — none in the chamber — and a nine-round clip was also in the bag. The weapon and ammunition were detained by Little Rock police while David Huckabee's gun permit was seized and given to the Arkansas State Police.

Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said it is not unusual for people to forget they have a gun in their carry-on luggage.

A Transportation Security Administration worker summoned police after seeing the image of a gun on an X-ray machine. Little Rock police checked the bag and found the gun and ammunition, said Sari Koshetz, a TSA spokeswoman in Miami.

Koshetz and Little Rock police did not know where Huckabee was heading.

Koshetz said any interruption of security checks for other passengers would have lasted only a moment. She said Huckabee — whom she declined to identify by name — was cooperative and that other passengers were not endangered by the incident.

In addition to the criminal charge, TSA can seek separate civil penalties, Koshetz said.

In 1998, David Huckabee was among two boys fired from a Boy Scout camp after a stray dog was killed after wandering onto camp property. David Huckabee, 17 at the time, said the dog appeared ill; no charges were filed. The elder Huckabee said then that politics was behind the dog-killing accusation.
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I guess that the rat, Klinton was the only person from Arkansas with an I.Q. higher than 80!:cool: IF the jerk had properly secured the pistol and declared it, all would be o.k.
 
The crime he committed was only a misdemeanor charge in the article I read.
He is going to lose his CCW permit also.
 
That's pretty severe punishment!

When Texas State Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa was caught trying to board his flight with a loaded handgun, the local DA didn't even press charges because "he didn't mean to do it".

I know I'll get the same treatment if I ever slip up too.
 
If that was any one of us, Well can you say Gitmo ?
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Probably not. If it was any one of us under the same circumstances, I suspect we'd probably receive roughly similar punishment: fines, suspended sentence, permit revoked. Maybe less, maybe a bit more (larger fines, jail sentence measured in days not months).

Mainly because there was no attempt whatsoever to conceal it, so it's fairly obvious there was no real intent to get the gun onto the plane. These things happen, actually. I use the same backpack for school that I use when I fly, for instance, and the same "carry-on" luggage to drive cross-state as to fly cross-country.

It's stupid, but not unthinkable. And I imagine its generally punished as such.

Anybody know what the average punishment for such a mistake actually is?
 
Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said it is not unusual for people to forget they have a gun in their carry-on luggage.
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I work at an airport and I have never even heard of someone forgetting something like that. But then again, Iowa is up there in education while AR is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

I don't think the punishment is out of line with the crime, the prisons are already overcrowded with real criminals.
 
I work at an airport and I have never even heard of someone forgetting something like that. But then again, Iowa is up there in education while AR is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
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Thanks for painting with such a broad brush. The actions of one person justifies your remarks?:barf:
 
The fact is under the Clintons, the schools of Arkansas were neglected and education suffered. Futhermore it was not just one person, but according to officials it happens on a regular basis.

That depends on whether Arkansans can spell "scraping".
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I'll remember to hold you accountable for sticky keyboard keys Jim.;)
 
I work at an airport and I have never even heard of someone forgetting something like that. But then again, Iowa is up there in education while AR is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
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I don't have much use for Arkansas, either, but you guys in Iowa really have some splendid gun laws. Guess it's the "higher education" of the legislators, huh? :cool:
 
Hey, I personaly like the permit to acquire system where you pay your $8 a year and once it is mailed to you you can buy all the guns you want in that year. Just walk in with the permit and a credit card and you walk out with your gun. No hassle, no waiting period.

CC laws are decent, but issuing is left up to the county Sheriff, so it realy is not in the hands of the legislators.

My only gripe with the system is that Class 3 is verboten. Always has been, and likely always will be.:mad:
 
I would hope that if it was an honest mistake, we would get off lightly as well. I think that it was plain for the officials to see that it was an honest mistake. Now if he were wearing a robe and turbin, it probably would have read a lot different. LOL
 
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