Court upholds police pointing gun at lawful carrier

12/31/2009 • Examiner.com

It's open season on gun carriers. A case out of the First Circuit has some painful lessons for gun carriers in Georgia. A United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the constitutionality of pointing a gun at any citizen daring to carry, lawfully, a concealed weapon in public. The First Circuit Court of Appeals is the Court just below the United States Supreme Court in the New England states. The case stems from a lawyer who sued a police officer after he was detained for lawfully carrying a concealed weapon while in possession of a license to carry concealed. According to the case opinion, the lawyer, Greg Schubert, had a pistol concealed under his suit coat, and Mr. Schubert was walking in what the court described as a "high crime area." At some point a police officer, J.B. Stern, who lived up to his last name, caught a glimpse of the attorney's pistol, and he leapt out of his patrol car "in a dynamic and explosive manner" with his gun drawn, pointing it at the

2 Comments in Response to Court upholds police pointing gun at lawful carrier

Comment by McElchap

Entered on: 1/4/2010 10:40:40 AM

Next time you face "Old Glory", remember "the Republic for which it stands" no longer exists. It was killed years ago in bipartisan efforts. The cops and the establishment they enforce simply don't care. Expect no relief from the world's most successful organized crime syndicate in the District of Criminals. They will tell you to your face that they "ARE THE LAW", however arbitrarily they may choose to spin it. It will always be in their favor. They recognize no rights for us, no immutable timeless principles of liberty or justice. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights are just anachronisms. It is "pay to play", and we are nothing but the cattle on thousand hills to them, slaves. It is time to refresh the roots of the tree of liberty, as Jefferson said.

Comment by Lucky Red

Entered on: 1/3/2010 2:23:45 PM

"Gun carriers" as in "gun smugglers"?

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