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From Boston.com:
Authorities stopped two men from entering the Pokemon World Championships in Boston after learning of violent threats against people attending the event, police said. They later found an array of weapons and arrested the pair on firearms charges, they said.
Security employees at the Hynes Convention Center, where the event was held Friday and Saturday, notified the Boston Regional Intelligence Center on Thursday of the threats.
The two men, 18-year-old Kevin Norton and 27-year-old James Stumbo, both of Iowa, were stopped when they tried to enter the event. Detectives, who had been informed that the men had driven from Iowa and had several firearms in their vehicle, asked the pair for licenses for any weapons, and the men could not produce them, police said. Authorities impounded the vehicle and released the suspects while they obtained a search warrant, police said.
On Friday, after obtaining a warrant, detectives searched the vehicle and "recovered one 12-gauge Remington shotgun, one DPM5 Model AR-15 rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition, and a hunting knife," according to police.
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(Score: 2) by Username on Monday August 24 2015, @06:20PM
Rights do not require a federal law or any kind of law for that matter. Laws can only deny rights, not grant them.
It’s like saying, "No federal law allows a person to drive through any state with homosexuals in their vehicle, as long as homosexuality is legal in origin and destination states."
(Score: 1) by modecx on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:30AM
Respectfully, that's a terrible analogy, and it's nothing like that at all. The law in question is otherwise known as the "Firearms Owners Protection Act", and was created to partially preempt (rather, provide a narrow affirmative defense against) more restrictive state and local laws concerning travelers.
Is it ideal? Hell no. Is it utterly ridiculous that we even need such a thing in the first place? Hell yes. The maxim regarding good intentions not withstanding, at least the intentions behind that section of law weren't evil, which is more than can be said about many of the things that make it out of congress.