{"id":34664,"date":"2013-03-21T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34664"},"modified":"2013-03-21T09:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:49:45","slug":"first-to-be-prosecuted-for-safe-act-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34664","title":{"rendered":"Marine is first to be prosecuted for SAFE Act violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCPO Ret. – TN sends us a link to the story<\/a> of Benjamin M. Wassell, a Buffalo resident and former Marine and Iraq War veteran who will be the first person prosecuted under New York’s Legacy Governor Cuomo’s SAFE Act. He tried to sell weapons to a state police undercover fellow, one weapon had multiple modifications that made it illegal under the old scary-looking weapon ban, but the second weapon only had a pistol grip which is a single feature which makes it illegal under the new law. To make matters worse, the undercover cop told Wassell that he was a felon.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son served two terms in Iraq and was wounded twice. He was a sergeant in the Marines. He\u2019s a good man. He\u2019ll do anything for anybody. What they\u2019re doing to him is very unfair,\u201d Dianne Wassell said.<\/p>\n

Patrick Hurley, his father-in-law, said that it is hard for Wassell to accept that he is now on the other side of the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is tearing him up. He\u2019s very patriotic. He has no criminal record,\u201d Hurley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I really wish I could summon some sympathy for Wassell, but, unless he was doing this to get arrested and punished to challenge the law in court, he was completely wrong. Especially because he thought the guy he was selling the guns to was a felon which goes against everything I believe in. Yes, the SAFE Act is bullshit regulations that won’t do what it’s name implies, and it’s a liberal knee-jerk emotional response to tragic events and simply the Left emoting in their pants, but selling a weapon to a convicted felon is never OK. Never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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