The Brooklyn District Attorney had “no choice but to dismiss” Council Member Inna Vernikov’s weapons charge given her gun was “inoperable” … The council member’s charge, criminal possession of a firearm, requires the weapon in question be “capable of firing bullets” — meaning Vernikov’s charges wouldn’t stand, according to the District Attorney’s office. [More]
So New Yorkers can have 80% receivers now…?
Or more likely, they were politically afraid to p!$$ off the wrong group of NY political power players…
Differing from the case in St Louis, where the prosecutor had the inoperable pistol repaired, to be able to support the charges filed.
But those people were not leftists or of the “community”.
Also interesting in view of the fact that courts all over our country have repeatedly ruled that a robbery committed with a fake gun or realistic looking air gun is an ARMED robbery. Hamas appears to be the “flavor that’s in favor” with the Left, so antisemitic protestors will always get special treatment.
I believe this case is the exact opposite.
she is NOT an anti-semitic protestor. SHe was there to protest the antisemitic event.
Had she brandished the weapon as found, then the charges of presnting lethal force could be laid, because in a robbery or similar situation the perseption if the one being threatened by the (non) gun is what carries the weight of the charge. Since she had not brandished or presented the chunk of metal, its perception as lethal/non-lethal was nott relevant. the simple possession charge is fir a functional piece. A plastic mockup or airsoft is not a weapon. Howwever when one carries one into a C Store and uses it to intimidate, he is now uing the papparent threat of lethal force to manipulate his victims, and a crime is now committed.
I think she played this one perfectly. I am also pleased she has not backed down one nanometer. Had she been assaulted (a likely situation in her position and at such an event) she would have been able to present the chunk of etal knowing it would be erceived as a lethal weapon, thus giver=ing herself a decided advaantage in de-escalating the possible assault. I think she needs to do a bit of homework and improve on her carry method. SHe should not have been “made” so easily. But by what I gather of her position and such, she may well have wanted to be “made”, knowing she was NOT in violation of the (illegal) law as written. It should NOT be a crime to possess a handgun in public.
Of course BATF would most certainly have charged her as being in “constructive possession” of a firearm.. all she’d need was a prepped mag and that spring and she’d have a functioning piece.
New York , New York, one hell of a town. But you mere serfs had better not have anything more effective than a butter knife in reach.