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Boston gun fashions
By adamg on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:25pm
Some people put paintings or swordfish on their walls. Not Christopher Swanson of Allston. Boston Police report that shortly after noon today, officers swung by Swanson's pad at 3 Islington St. to pick him up on some outstanding warrants. While there, they noticed Swanson had given a prominent place of honor on his wall to a machine gun:
Officers then asked the suspect if the gun was real, and he stated that it was in fact a real machine gun. Officers then asked the suspect if there were any other guns in the house, and he directed officers to a bedroom where they found another handgun with a large capacity magazine.
After they secured the guns, they then found a metal throwing star and a butterfly knife, both also illegal in Massachusetts. So now, in addition to the original warrants, Swanson faces a variety of weapons-possession charges.
Meanwhile, on Saturday night, police arrested Jenice Byron, 20, of Dorchester, on charges she was packing an illegal handgun in her Louis Vuitton bag as she walked down Hancock Street in Uphams Corner.
Innocent, etc.
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I really dont understand why
I really dont understand why someone would put a machine gun on their wall. You would think that someone with outstanding warrants would be playing it safe, but of course if they were the thinking type of person they wouldnt have warrants, so I guess its a loop.
Oh no
Not THROWING STARS.
OH God!
You would be amazed at how
You would be amazed at how many of those types of things are illegal in MA. For some reason my father used to get a magazine that was mail order for all sorts of things, and there was a whole section on "show weapons" as a pre-teen boy of course I loved opening to that section (my father was all about the car parts, but thats no fun to a boy) and 90 percent of them said "not legal in MA and like three other states, and that included throwing stars. My lucky mother, whenever I would ask if I could have one she said of course not , those arent safe, besides its not even legal! I never could figure out why something illegal was in a catologue... Later of course I figured out it was only MA being MA, although now I dont see why anyone needs a ninja star anyway (especially after seeing the South Park episode where the boys are pretending to be Japanese ninjas.)
Throwing Stars
I think they are illegal because they are so small and light, yet lethal. They are way too easy to hide in a pocket and take with you - into a crowd, a night club, a school, for instance. Maybe they don't get found during a frisk or set off metal detectors?
At least that is some of what my son told me - he is trying to make a case for buying his own sword.
(anybody else getting some reallly interesting weapons and weapons training advertizements in the banner and side box for this thread????)
Frot site training facility
Frot site training facility for guns, oh yeah!
Also just saw a free Duck Hunt game!
Night Club Throwing star
Night Club Throwing star crimes are at an all time High in states other than MA!
We use to order all sorts of those ninja things from magazines...and luckily they delivered to Boston.
I still want to order more and see if those climby things work...granted I am 25 years older and 100 pounds heavier
I don't make the laws here ...
I'm just speculating and relaying the "rationale" that I've heard. Maybe they are just potentially more damaging to a perfect Atkins for Kids diet than Marshmallow Fluff, I don't know.
Perhaps the people who do make the laws about these things also watch a lot of Ninja movies ...
Illegal in MA per MGL c. 269 s. 10(b)
You can own the following, but you cannot "carry" the following or have them in your vehicle while driving:
Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his person, or carries on his person or under his control in a vehicle, any stiletto, dagger or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade, or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches, or a slung shot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles or knuckles of any substance which could be put to the same use with the same or similar effect as metallic knuckles, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown, or any armband, made with leather which has metallic spikes, points or studs or any similar device made from any other substance or a cestus or similar material weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand, or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted ends; or whoever, when arrested upon a warrant for an alleged crime, or when arrested while committing a breach or disturbance of the public peace, is armed with or has on his person, or has on his person or under his control in a vehicle, a billy or other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned and those mentioned in paragraph (a), shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two and one-half years nor more than five years in the state prison, or for not less than six months nor more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction, except that, if the court finds that the defendant has not been previously convicted of a felony, he may be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction.
Whoever, except as provided
Who knew Mass politicians were so against big heeled pointy shoes?
Lock em up
2 1/2 years for a first offense with any "other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned..."
Yar there's some good American Kangaroo justice. McPiggy sez whatever his target has in his hand is a dangerous weapon, so away he goes.
i know this guy
I grew up with chris and he definately is not the smartest guy I've ever met. However the cops shouldn't have been goin in his house to serve an arrest warrant. Second I don't think he's smart enough to modify an AR-15 to be fully auto so it's only a rifle. Mass has such strict gun laws they will turn this felony guncharge into a mandatory 15 year sentence which is excessive and unfair. Priests that rape children only get 5-8 years. The laws in mass are archaic and lopsided