In an OPEN CARRY state as well....go figure....I would not want to be a member of the SS for the next few years. I do have a friend who IS a member of the SS and he told me he was "very, very, very concerned"......can't say I blame him.

 

The last story we saw of a guy that had "strobe lights" in his car, the lights were flashlights with a strobe feature. Notice they do not say why he was in the rental car return lot either. For all we know he was returning a car and had his carry piece in the center console, got out and was carrying it to his normal car.

 

Would of looked better if... uh... nevermind.

 

He looks like a kid to me, must be a liberal plant to make all of us in the carolinas look like gun toting, religion clinging, americans. I hope this dont give Obama the idea to invade the carolinas. you know "it will make america safer to invade the carolinas and lock up all those ********"

 

He looks like a kid to me, must be a liberal plant to make all of us in the carolinas look like gun toting, religion clinging, americans. I hope this dont give Obama the idea to invade the carolinas. you know "it will make america safer to invade the carolinas and lock up all those ********"

He already invaded....came for vacation...

 

you notice NOT ONE Democrat met him at the airport???

 

They have updated the story a LOT since my first comment... It still does not sound like any of the stuff this guy had on him was illegal, or if he had the gun in his hand or in a open carry holster. That does not mean he wasnt up to no good in any way. If he was wearing a holstered gun, chances are he can beat the GATTP charge since carrying a holstered gun is not enough to warrant that charge just by itself. His bond does seem to be quite high for that charge so perhaps there are more charges pending.

 

More charges huh. Like possession of a handgun by a minor. Wow he looks young.

And this folks, is the reason I am glad we had no reason to go to Asheville. My wife actually commented on not going because she knows I would be carrying. What I find interesting is the couple of guys carrying at rallies had no issues. But when the cameras where not there they lock someone up. Or they have some evidence they are not releasing.

 

Hate to say it but to me this kid was a loony with some bad intentions. Only thing missing from the story was him having a rifle to go with the dope card found in his ashtray. It's obvious to me he had outfitted his car to impersonate some type of LEO thereby either bypassing security or simply going un noticed while he set up for whatever he had planned.

 

Hate to say it but to me this kid was a loony with some bad intentions. Only thing missing from the story was him hav ing a rifle to go with the dope card found in his ashtray. It's obvious to me he had outfitted his car to impersonate some type of LEO thereby either bypassing security or simply going un noticed while he set up for. Whatever he had planned.

+1

 

Hate to say it but to me this kid was a loony with some bad intentions. Only thing missing from the story was him hav ing a rifle to go with the dope card found in his ashtray. It's obvious to me he had outfitted his car to impersonate some type of LEO thereby either bypassing security or simply going un noticed while he set up for. Whatever he had planned.

have you got a link to the story with more info ? this story i found didnt give much.

 

Yeah, this a$$hole just makes it worse for the rest of us. He may have been carrying legally, but impersonating a police car, and hauling around a rifle and some dope cards, while at a presidential event, yeah...he was not there just returning a car. The boys were right to have arrested his sorry butt. However, I wish it had not made the news. Makes us look like crazy gunslingers.

 

hauling around a rifle

When was a rifle found, thought it was just a pistol? The facts just are not all there in the news reports I've seen. We probably not see anything else as the press might not deem it newsworthy any more...

-R

 

How does a nutcase from Ohio make people from North Carolina look bad..??..

 

Maybe I am missing something but how are we making the jump that this guy was up to no good? He was a ham so he had antennas on his car. He had a scanner, lots of people have scanners. Listening to Air Force One prepare to take off is probably pretty interesting. He open carried a pistol in a public place. The president was not even near him. He had clear strobes, so do hundreds of vehicles that work on the side of the road and there is no law against clear lights being on except if the car is in motion. A camera on the windshield, I see guys with motorcycles with cameras mounted on them often. The scope formula was more then likely left over trash from buying a scope. No report I have seen said he had a rifle. The report said he was there to see the president. You can read that as he either wanted to have a meeting with the president or he was there, just like all the other people, to visually see the president get on the plane and to see Air Force One. On the drivers license issue, could be computer error or could be more to the story there. The siren, good as a PA or to rebroadcast two way radio audio but not really smart to have the siren feature in your car. We can sure consider him a cop buff. Was he driving a Charger or a Crown Vic? His bad luck was combining all those items and having the same last name as the Oklahoma City bomber. None of this would have been an issue if he used common sense and locked up his gun in the trunk before he got anywhere near there. Just my opinion.

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I was born in 1987, and I go by my middle name, Sean. I operate on 75-, 40-, 20-, 10-, 2-meters, and 70-centimeters from my mobile station in and around Coshocton county, Ohio. I became licensed on March 26, 2008, originally as KD8IEX, and immediately requested a vanity call containing my initials, JSM. I upgraded to General in March of 2009.

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-HF/VHF/UHF: Yaesu® FT-857D for 75-, 40-, 20-, 10-, 2-meters, and 70-centimeters, pushing about 100 watts on HF, 50 watts on VHF, and 20 watts on UHF.

-I use Lakeview Company Ham Sticks®, trunk mounted, vertically polarized antennas with quick disconnects for 75-, 40-, and 20-meters.

-Base-loaded Wilson® 1000, trunk mounted, vertically polarized antenna for 10-meters.

-Base-loaded Laird® C144/440C, trunk mounted, vertically polarized antenna for 2-meters and 70-centimeters.

-VHF/UHF: Yaesu® FT-7800R for 2-meters and 70-centimeters, pushing about 50 watts on VHF and 40 watts on UHF, using a base-loaded Laird® C144/440C, trunk mounted, vertically polarized antenna.

-Scanning: Uniden® BC350C scanner with an Antenex® ASCANC tri-band antenna mounted in the same fashion. Additionally, for scanning, I use a Radio Shack® Pro-96 handheld digital trunking scanner.

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Generally, my antennas sit at the bottom of the rear windshield, on the front lip of my trunk, and this provides for some directionality towards the front of the vehicle. This enables me to help increase signal strength when necessary.

 

Word I am hearing is that he was a rescue volunteer.

 

Yeah, this a$$hole just makes it worse for the rest of us. He may have been carrying legally, but impersonating a police car, and hauling around a rifle and some dope cards, while at a presidential event, yeah...he was not there just returning a car. The boys were right to have arrested his sorry butt. However, I wish it had not made the news. Makes us look like crazy gunslingers.

If you had read the article you would have seen he had clear strobes. He volunteered at the sheriffs department as an emergency responder so I assume they were for that.

And where did you see he had a rifle?

 

I saw on another link from another forum that they thought they found a rifle.

Anyways, yes it is likely he was not up to anything. I would kill to have a car and all those toys myself, but what kind of moron takes *that* car with that amount of gear, to an airport of all places where the president is landing?

Now we have WRAL and other news sites reporting on the guy, making him sound like some crazy gun owner that wanted to kill the pres, that is the media talking, not me.

 

Latest story from Drudge is that he is a REACT volunteer, Ham operator, and storm chaser in his community in Ohio. Helps out the local LEO,s with traffic and such at various times. The Drudge story didn't go into whether he was open carrying or not but if it was concealed they couldn't have hit him with that bogus GATTTOP charge so it must have been visible. So far I can't find any thing that suggests he violated any NC statutes. No laws that I know of against being dumb. Maybe something he said???

 

I'm not gonna make judgment, but if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, walks like a duck it's probably a duck. I've came across someone like this before with a car decked out like a state trooper, needless to say he was admitted to the 5th floor, not saying this kid was just as crazy, but I can see where an emergency volunteer needs a rifle dope when responding to emergencies, you never know when you may have to volunteer as a sniper for a hostage situation.

I'm sure we can speculate, how sirens, and strobe lights can make for a fast getaway, or again, help get you to that hostage situation where your needed pronto as a sniper when your listening in on the police channel. Just have to agree with Wahoo.

 

From the airport press release. Nothing really new here.

http://www.flyavl.com/news-releases/2010-04-25-nr-man-charged-by-airport-police.html

Parking map. He was close to the terminal in the rental area.

http://www.flyavl.com/parking/parking.html

It's owned by the city of Asheville and likely falls under this. Not sure why they would use GATTTOTP though, instead of charging him with something else. If a city prohibits firearms in the building they can also prohibit them in the parking lot of those buildings per here, section f.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-409.40.html

City of Asheville ordinance

Sec. 12-42. Firearms and weapons.
No person shall possess, use or carry any firearm, gun, rifle, pistol, air rifle, spring gun or compressed air rifle or pistol or other similar device or weapon which impels or discharges with force any bullet, shot or pellet of any kind, including arrows with metallic tips or sharp tips of any nature, designated to penetrate and propel a bow or spring device, in any park or other city-owned facility. Further, no person shall possess, use or carry any knife, other than an ordinary pocket knife, which means a small knife, designed for carrying in a pocket or purse and which has a cutting edge and point entirety enclosed by its handle and that may not be opened by throwing, explosive or spring action, or a kitchen knife, when it is used or intended to be used for its ordinary purposes, in any park or other city-owned facility. This section shall not apply to any law enforcement officer of any governmental agency or body charged with the duties of protecting life or property or enforcing laws or regulations while engaged in the performance of his/her official duty nor to any participant in a city-sponsored archery program or event.

 

Quacks like a duck to me......plus the kid looks like he could be a bit looney. He was a big time Republican volunteering for things so why would he be there to see Obama.

 

He was a big time Republican volunteering for things so why would he be there to see Obama.

I have seen nothing in any news sources saying that is the case... where do you see that?

 

Quacks like a duck to me......plus the kid looks like he could be a bit looney. He was a big time Republican volunteering for things so why would he be there to see Obama.

Yep....everybody knows that big time republican volunteers are nuts.....

 

Hate to say it but to me this kid was a loony with some bad intentions. Only thing missing from the story was him having a rifle to go with the dope card found in his ashtray. It's obvious to me he had outfitted his car to impersonate some type of LEO thereby either bypassing security or simply going un noticed while he set up for whatever he had planned.

so lets get this str8 since i have a gun and was carrying it on person and was at an auction, with our sherrif whom i really dont like and think he needs to be kicked back out of office because I think he is as crooked as the bad guys, then that means that i was there just to be a trouble maker to the sherrif. I think you might want to save judgement until all the facts are in, and dont be like Obama and stick your foot in your mouth before you know ALL the FACTS.