Posted on 03/19/2013 10:29:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Did this photograph spark a police action that tried to enter a New Jersey home without a warrant? That’s the story being told on a website dedicated to “Open Carry” in the state of Delaware. The title of the story, “The fight has officially been brought to my front door.”
(PHOTO AT LINK)
The young man in the photo is the 11-yr-old son of Shawn Moore. The gun is a .22 rifle, a copy of the AR-15, but a 22 caliber. The photo was posted on Facebook by a proud father. That Facebook posting apparently triggered an anonymous call to New Jersey’s Department of Youth and Family Services (DYFS). On Friday night, March 15th, two representatives from the state’s social services office (along with four local police officers) came to the Moore home and demanded to see the family’s firearms.
According to Moore’s lawyer, Evan Nappen (an attorney with considerable expertise in NJ’s very strict gun laws), the situation was “outrageous.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Where was that at, 2ndDV?
New Joisee.
it was not uncommon in many rural parts of the country for children to walk to school with rifles or shotguns. not to protect them from people, generally, but from bear and mountain lion
they would be stored in the back of the one room school houses
Actually, it was never IN style. Surrender is much more stylish; the French are very stylish for example. But that's OK -- the kind of people who fight tyranny don't give a rat's ass about whether or not they're stylish.
At least the French are fighting the Islamo-Scum in Mali.
“That Facebook posting apparently triggered an anonymous call to New Jersey’s Department of Youth and Family Services (DYFS).”
Wonder who the narc was? If Mr. Moore finds out, I’d be defriending the clown and/or blocking him or her from my FB account.
Seriously, I see nothing remotely scary or “unsafe home” about the picture. If the boy had been holding the weapon in an obviously unsafe manner that could have posed immediate harm to himself or others - like say, pointing it at himself as a practical joke, or something - then maybe I would agree that a visit from the authorities would have been in order. As it is, all I see is a ridiculous overreaction by the NJ child protective services department.
Seriously, I see nothing remotely scary or “unsafe home” about the picture. If the boy had been holding the weapon in an obviously unsafe manner that could have posed immediate harm to himself or others - like say, pointing it at himself as a practical joke, or something - then maybe I would agree that a visit from the authorities would have been in order. As it is, all I see is a ridiculous overreaction by the NJ child protective services department.
I think that’s why the “over reaction” occurred. This guy and his family are the “Old Normal” they don’t belong in the world of the “New Normal” where the state is supreme in all matters especially the raising, (or non-raising as it may be), of your own children.
http://youtu.be/RpUDZFxlRhw
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.