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DA: Arkansas man learns you can't just drive around Boston with loaded high-capacity guns
By adamg on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 9:21pm
Seized guns and ammo.
An Arkansas man was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail after he was arrested on Day Boulevard in South Boston early Sunday for driving around with a loaded gun under his leg, three other loaded guns and a total of 230 bullets, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A state trooper pulled Tayvian Chamberlain, 20, of Bentonville, AR, over around 12:15 a.m. right near the State Police barracks after noticing his temporary paper "plate" was expired, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and State Police say.
State Police report:
The motorist had three young dogs in the car that he said he was transporting to buyers in Massachusetts and stated that he was armed for protection. He acknowledged having several firearms in the SUV, which he said he had purchased at a gun show in Arkansas. He acknowledged they were not registered to him, and that his home state does not require a license to carry.
But Arkansas gun laws, or the lack thereof, don't apply 1,500 miles away in Massachusetts and so Chamberlain was arrested on four counts of carrying a firearm without a license, four counts of carrying a loaded firearm without a license, three counts of possessing a high-capacity magazine, one count of possessing a high-capacity feeding device, numerous counts of illegal ammunition possession and illegal firearm and ammunition storage and driving an unregistered vehicle, the DA's office says, adding the final inventory of his SUV was: A Canik 9mm pistol with 18 rounds in the magazine, a Glock 43 9mm pistol with six rounds in the magazine, a Glock 41 .45-caliber pistol with 13 rounds in the magazine and an AR .223-caliber pistol with 70 rounds in a drum magazine. Troopers also found 126 loose bullets, the DA's office says.
Troopers turned the dogs - two Labrador Retrievers and an Italian Mastiff - over to Boston Animal Control for care.
Innocent, etc.
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Would be great to know what kinda dogs; brown dogs, pitties, some catahoula cur perhaps?
Added to story
I had the info, must've deleted it by mistake: Two Labrador Retrievers and an Italian Mastiff.
Excellent work and thank you
Excellent work and thank you law enforcement. I don't believe Arkansas man. He and his dog buyer thought they had their plan ready. The first thing I thought was another mass shooting in the U.S. Glad he didn't rain on the parade. Sad that I think this way now about large crowd gatherings that are supposed to be joyous.
Probably selling guns and ammo
I'd believe that before planning a mass shooting. Illegal weapons are coming in from somewhere.
Arkansas must be some kind of
Arkansas must be some kind of hell hole if you ever feel you need that much protection.
No nips, he should get some
No nips, he should get some leniency.
High capacity magazines are "allowed" if you're one of the
High capacity magazines are "allowed" if you're one of the anointed few. Mere citizens such as ourselves can't handle such things, if you ask the state. Don't forget what high capacity magazines are meant to protect, and it isn't you.
You forgot the rest of that thought ...
Even if you have a license, the weapons are supposed to be properly stowed while being transported. I'm hardly a lawyer or gun expert, but I suspect that sitting on a loaded gun while you're driving down Day Boulevard does not constitute proper storage of a firearm.
Not true
if you are licensed to carry you can put that loaded firearm anywhere on your person or vehicle. Any license for hunting or target practice has to be locked and stored n your trunk.
Also a large capacity magazine in MA is limited to 10 rounds.
Thanks
I was thinking of hunting rifles and the like.
But like you said, even if he had a license, he would be breaking the law with those magazines.
Gun laws, police work
Never thought I’d say this, but nice work by the State Police. Gun laws make a difference, can’t imagine living in much of this country now.
How long?
I'm figuring that it's just a matter of time before the current SCOTUS says that this kind of thing is all hunky-dory.
The decision will lay bare how offensive it is that Massachusetts tried to keep god-fearing Americans like our friend here from exercising his 2A rights to protect himself from the godless heathens who populate the blue cities of the north while delivering the inbred output of his puppy mill.
Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
This gets filed every congressional session; the next time the R's control government it will pass.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/38?s=1&r=7
Can we
ban people coming in to us from red states? We probably get like 10% of our interstate commerce from these dumps anyway.
How can you not need a
How can you not need a license to get a gun? This is not just a difference in culture, this has to be a lack of intelligence.
Look up the states with the
Look up the states with the least restrictions for guns and then look at how their ranked for education.
Look up the cities with the
Look up the cities with the most restrictions for guns and them look at how they rank for shootings.
I love statistics
Here, have a map. Look at the states with the highest murder rates.
This is 100% normal day to
This is 100% normal day to day stuff in many states. Not saying that’s good or bad. But it is what it is.
Man, just like that his
Man, just like that his constitutional rights are involuntarily forfeited.
For bay staters: here’s the perspective from an Arkansas news source
https://www.5newsonline.com/amp/article/news/regional/arkansas-news/poli...
I'm guessing you're not a constitutional lawyer
And neither am I, but you might want to Google "Heller decision" and read it. The Supreme Court did NOT outlaw the sort of gun control Massachusetts and several other states have.
Maybe they will at some point, but for now, it's still constitutional for Massachusetts State Police to arrest some alleged yahoo from an Arkansas puppy mill driving around Kosciuszko Circle with enough guns and bullets to murder 250 people - or, for that matter, to arrest heavily armed "Moors" driving up 128 on their way from Rhode Island to Maine.
Dude should've looked up Massachusetts gun laws first (just like MA residents who consume marijuana who are heading south should probably check out the penalties for possession of marijuana in the states they plan to visit - or, now, pregnant people should check to see what might happen if they miscarry there).
Who cares
what a bunch of ammosexuals think?
Taking his word for it
I love how you all are taking his word for what he was doing here and why he had all these guns.
He was selling dogs AND guns. He was either informed or assumed incorrectly that since he owned both legally and thinking that he possessed them legally and therefore could honestly state (about the dogs) why he was here and what he was in possession of, if he ever got stopped. He's going to hope for some sort of leniency as a 'dumb' out-of-state young person that he never would have done it all this way if he'd only known.
We'll see him back here in another 6 months with another round of dogs and guns to sell but maybe with a metal plate with a valid registration and every time after that...and that's how guns (and dogs) get sold in MA from outside the state.
Good question
I discounted the gun-sales angle in part because we've seen a flood of "rescue" dogs up here over the past, what, year or two, from southern states. And why would you be driving with all those guns loaded if you're going to sell them? That seems kind of dangerous all by itself (like I know anything about illegal gun sales, granted).
Roberts Court as 21st C. version of Taney Court
Will the Roberts court do for guns what the Taney court did about slavey. Generate a convoluted lie about how the 2nd Amendment actually means that all states have to treat visiting citizens of other states according to the gun laws of their native state?
Scalia mouthed a violent lie about the 2nd Amendment. Yet even he stopped from making it absolute. Will the current court majority go where not even Scalia dared step?
SCOTUS has become America's version of Iran's Guardian Council
They are untouchable, unaccountable, and arbitrary. They rule in favor of their political friends, even on one occasion going so far as to decide a Presidential election. They are enemies of democracy.
President Biden needs to follow Andrew Jackson's example: Messrs. Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas have made their decision; now let them enforce it.
Speaking of guns in cars,
Speaking of guns in cars, today's NYT mentions a sharp increase of guns reported stolen from parked cars over the last decade. Apparently it's become quite common on the parking lots of sport venues in states with loose gun laws. Cities like Memphis and Houston get something like 4 reports a day on average. And of course we have no idea about how many of these gun thefts go unreported.
Also reported is that gun thieves have learned that folks who proudly promote self defense and second amendment rights on their vehicle are a lot more likely to have guns tucked under the seats of their parked truck. Go figure!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/us/illegal-guns-parked-cars.html