{"id":39393,"date":"2014-01-21T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39393"},"modified":"2014-01-21T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:08:16","slug":"mark-witaschek-is-not-dick-gregory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39393","title":{"rendered":"Mark Witaschek is not David Gregory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our favorite 2d Amendment journalist, Emily Miller at the Washington Times<\/a> tells the story of Mark Witaschek and his experience with the District of Columbia prosecutor which differs vastly when compared to that of Dick<\/del>David Gregory, the NBC reporter guy who brought a 30-round AR magazine into the District for his little TV show, which is against DC law, and which the prosecutor refused to prosecute (you know like it’s his job). Mark Witaschek was reported by an angry ex-wife for firearms in his DC home, firearms which he kept at his sister’s house in Virginia. Metro cops raided his house twice during the summer of 2012 and came up empty, but a more thorough search turned up a misfired shotgun shell and some sabots for a blackpowder rifle;<\/p>\n

There have been two pre-trail hearings in the case so far. At the end of the first hearing in November, Judge Robert Morin gave the government until Jan. 3 to come up with a good defense for the initial police raid without a search warrant.<\/p>\n

Knowing things weren\u2019t going in their favor, the two assistant attorneys general for the District on the case, Peter Saba and Oritsejemine Trouth, offered Mr. Witaschek probation if he pleaded guilty. He declined the offer.<\/p>\n

At the second hearing, the judge disallowed the first warrantless search and the fruits of it. This eliminated a box of rifle ammunition from the charges.<\/p>\n

Undeterred, the prosecutors continued with the two items from the second raid \u2014 a misfired 12-gauge shotgun shell and a box of muzzleloader sabots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, in DC, having unregistered ammunition is a felony, just like having a 30-round magazine is also a felony. Mr Witaschek is guilty of not making good choices in his life – mainly the choice he made to not work for NBC News and be a TV personality. Because some animals are more equal than others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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