In an affidavit, the investigator wrote that “there is probable cause that the offense of possessing a ‘high-capacity’ magazine was committed in the District of Columbia. Therefore your Affiant requests the issuance of an arrest warrant for Gregory, David Michael.”
Despite the request, D.C. attorney general Irvin Nathan declined to prosecute in the case.
Legalinsurrection.com’s William A. Jacobson wrote: “The short version is that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department warned NBC News that it could not possess an actual high-capacity magazine, but NBC News went ahead and did it anyway. The MPD recommended a warrant for Gregory’s arrest, but that request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.”
The incident occurred Dec. 23, 2012 when Gregory displayed a 30-round magazine for effect while interviewing LaPierre following the Newtown shootings.
In Washington, it is illegal to possess a magazine holding 10 rounds or more, even if empty.
6 comments:
I don't think this will go anywhere.
He's just lucky he didn't decide to represent the magazine by biting a piece of bread into the shape or drawing violent stick figures, because we have zero tolerance for that shit.
The point of all this was not that we wanted David Gregory prosecuted. We didn’t. . . .
Which is false because the writer then goes on to say "people like David Gregory and other high profile citizens" should be prosecuted under the law.
Why? Because then maybe the day might come when "mere possession of an unloaded high-capacity magazine, not to be used in the commission of some other crime and far away from actual ammunition" might no longer be a crime in D.C.
I'd say someone doesn't have much of an understanding of how the real world of law creation and law enforcement operates.
But the call for the robotic enforcement of a bad law does make a bit of sense when understood as grievance-mongering, pure and simple.
Howdy Doody can't even get arrested on TV. He pissed on both legs and showed what a sycophant toady he is. Now, to succeed on TV you have to be a liberal, sycophant toady, but you have to @ least cover it w/ a veneer.
Gregory is still holding an empty mag.
This is an example of how prosecutorial discretion can be abused. What do think would have happened if Lapierre had been holding the magazine?
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