Judge Robert Morin sentenced Mr. Witaschek to time served, a $50 fine and required him to enroll with the Metropolitan Police Department\u2019s firearm offenders\u2019 registry within 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Outside the courtroom, I asked Mr. Witaschek how he felt about the verdict. \u201cI\u2019m completely outraged by it,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is just a continuation of the nightmare. Just to sit there. I could not believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shaking his head, he added, \u201cNone of these people know anything about gun issues, including the judge.\u201d<\/p>\n
His wife Bonnie Witaschek was crying. \u201cIt\u2019s just so scary,\u201d she said. \u201cYou never think you\u2019ll end up in a situation like this, but here we are.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, I don’t even know what “attempted possession” might mean. Unless they’re a-skeered that he could actually load them into a rifle, but if he’d had powder to put behind them, you know the police would have found that, too. Or he could have thrown them, I guess.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon on Wednesday, Judge Morin shook the plastic shell and tried to listen to something inside. He said he could not hear any gunpowder. He then asked the lawyers to open the shell to see if there was powder inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What, did he expect the gunpowder to shout out “Hey, stop shaking! There’s gun powder in here, ya know!”<\/p>\n
Assistant Attorney General Peter Saba said that the government wanted to open the shell but that, \u201cIt is dangerous to do outside a lab.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Geez, I wish I had known that when I was cutting them open when I was 12 years old with my pocket knife. Clearly, the judge and the prosecutor were out of their element on this case.<\/p>\n
The prosecutors and police officers left the courtroom to try to find a lab that was open in the afternoon to bring the judge to cut the plastic off the section that holds the pellets. When that proved not possible in the same day, the judge decided to just rule on the bullets.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What a f**king clown show. But you should read the rest and the debate over whether or not the bullets are legal to possess in the District. I thought the Second Amendment applied only to muzzleloaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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