{"id":26284,"date":"2011-08-23T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26284"},"modified":"2011-08-23T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T20:39:51","slug":"disgruntled-sailor-arrested-in-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26284","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled sailor arrested in CT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that a “Navy sailor” (as opposed to an Army sailor, I suppose) was arrested in Connecticut for possessing a scary-looking weapon they called an AK47. They said he was disgruntled. I’m sure if they start arresting sailors for being disgruntled, the jails will fill up fairly quickly;<\/p>\n

Cory Dion Caldwell, 24, kept the rifle under his bed in the barracks at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, according to an arrest warrant. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service opened an investigation after an informant told them about the weapon and said Caldwell made statements that were anti-government and anti-military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m sure I can count on one finger the number of people I’ve known who were in the military and didn’t make anti-government and anti-military statements.<\/p>\n

DePasquale said that authorities who searched Caldwell’s home in Waterford found the assault rifle along with a gas mask, a .50-caliber handgun, two .45-caliber handguns and high-capacity ammunition clips for the AK-47 that could hold up to 50 rounds apiece.<\/p>\n

“It makes you wonder,” [Waterford police Sgt. Joseph] DePasquale said. “Finding stuff like that obviously increased our concern. Our concern is whatever’s motivating him to stockpile stuff like this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In West Virginia that’s called “what you get for your 14th birthday”. And I didn’t know that they made “clips” for AK47s.<\/p>\n

…DePasquale said Caldwell was “very disgruntled and anti-military” and there was concern of potential violence, but there was no evidence that Caldwell planned to harm anyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet they had him in court in shackles and put a $200k bail on him. He shouldn’t have had the weapon in CT where scary-looking guns are illegal, but the reaction of this particular police officer is irrational. What “makes you wonder”? I like scary-looking weapons with high capacity magazines. I have no intention of ever shooting anyone, but it’s comforting to know that if I have to take on a roving band of zombies, i can hold my own.<\/p>\n

But Cory Caldwell shouldn’t have smuggled the scary-looking rifle into back-ass-wards Connecticut and certainly not brought it to the barracks. And if that puny arsenal frightened police sergeant Joseph DePasquale, he probably shouldn’t look in my gun safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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