{"id":72825,"date":"2017-06-17T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72825"},"modified":"2017-06-17T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:38:09","slug":"bryan-moles-former-navy-corpsman-arrested-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72825","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Moles, former Navy Corpsman, arrested in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chief Tango sent us a link of a story<\/a> about Bryan Moles, a Pennsylvania man who took a scary black rifle and a scary black Glock handgun to DC. Someone tipped off the Secret Service that he might have those weapons in his vehicle and sure enough, he did. They found the guns in plain view in his SUV while it was parked in a hotel parking garage.<\/p>\n

In the linked article, Colbert I. King seems upset that Moles is getting all of the attention and the other guns confiscated by police in the District since then get no press. Mr King, should recognize that almost two thousand guns get confiscated by the police in DC every year – every year since guns were effectively banned in DC in 1974, according to police statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, back to Moles. WTOP<\/a> reports that these guns were taken from his home in Pennsylvania (the SKS makes an appearance again this week);<\/p>\n

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In another Washington Post<\/a> link, Moles told police that he was in DC to talk to President Trump. He seems to be a Trump supporter.<\/p>\n

Bryan Moles, 43, must report to the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center by 4 p.m. Monday after he told police that he had traveled to the District \u2014 with an AR-15 rifle, a handgun and more than 90 rounds of ammunition in his 2017 black BMW \u2014 to meet with President Trump.<\/p>\n

In charging papers, prosecutors said Moles said he came to Washington to \u201cbring down big medicine business and big pharmacy\u201d and did not plan to leave 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. until he saw the president.<\/p>\n

Moles is a licensed physician and former Navy corpsman. He told police, charging documents state, that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, had refused medication and was treating himself with marijuana, to which he was formerly addicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the same Washington Post article, Moles served as a hospital corpsman from 1992 – 1996 at a hospital at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and that he was self-medicating his PTSD with weed.<\/p>\n

Whatever is going on, he’s sitting in jail after he left a court-ordered stay at a Georgia VA facility for an evaluation.<\/p>\n

A friend of Moles\u2019s for 25 years \u2014 Lisa Della Ratta, 44, a nurse in Gulf Breeze, Fla. \u2014 has described him as a hardcore Trump supporter who grew up with weapons and might have been unaware of the District\u2019s strict gun laws.<\/p>\n

Moles said little in court Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather assigned him a federal defender and set his next hearing for June 21. Moles told the court he was suspended from his hospital job….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re confused, don’t feel alone. I don’t know what happened at Camp Lejeune 1992-1996 that might have made Moles suffer PTSD, I guess PTSD is just the go-to excuse for smoking weed these days. <\/p>\n

In other articles, Moles claims that he was taking the gun to a gunsmith to be reworked, but that doesn’t explain why he would need 90 rounds of ammunition or the handgun. Whatever he was up to, I’m glad he’s not up to it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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