Posted on 04/17/2010 7:54:18 PM PDT by hiho hiho
Jerry Wilson, Soloflex founder, didn’t know his son, Brian, had a cache of semi-automatic weapons at his business’ campus
Barring a prior felony conviction, the guns that Brian D. Wilson was storing at his father’s business would have been legal.
But Wilson was convicted of a felony weapons charge in 2008. So when detectives entered the out buildings at the elder Wilson’s business on Badertscher Road near North Plains, they knew it was trouble.
As a felon, Brian Wilson is banned from owning any guns, let alone the AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles he was hoarding. As a result, he’s now in Washington County Jail with multiple weapons charges.
Brian Wilson’s dad, Jerry Wilson, famous for founding Soloflex, told investigators he had no idea the guns were on his sprawling rural property.
Sgt. David Thompson, spokesman for the Washington County Sheriff’s office, said that’s plausible, considering the size of the buildings the guns were stored in.
Jerry Wilson is one of the most flamboyant activists on the left-side of Oregon’s political aisle, using the profits from his iconic exercise equipment business to fund a variety of causes. In the 1980s, he bankrolled a failed effort to legalize pot. In the 1990s, he spent more than $1 million in a long battle to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Plant.
Earlier this year Jerry Wilson launched a third-party campaign for governor, pushing for public campaign financing, pardoning inmates convicted of “victimless” crimes and the establishment of a state bank, to make no-interest business loans.
Felons shouldn’t be debarred the right to keep and bear arms. If you have “paid your debt to society” through incarceration, fines, community service, etc. then your rights should not be infringed on.
The guy who sells two stick connected by a rubber band?
I would tend to agree with you except for violent offenders.
I haven’t been able to find much about this guy’s prior conviction or charges tho.
Then make the sentence such so that it is basically life for particular violent crimes albeit it does not have to be served entirely behind bars or even under supervision.
Just get rid of the idea that all felons deserve life sentences.
I am of the opinion that once all time has been served (to include probation and/or parole), one should retain all one's prior rights. If a person is deemed untrustworthy with all rights upon release, then said person likely shouldn't be released in the first place.
Hoarding two weapons? What would this moron who considers himself a "reporter" have the man do with the weapons? Share them? Hoarding? What a moron.
Freeing a man to be in open society yet depriving him of the means to defend himself and his family is a requirement for him to live as a second class citizen. Stripping a man of his dignity is not a good way to help him leave his mistakes behind and become a law abiding citizen.
Ooh, “semi-automatic”, scary.
Also true.
I am guessing the story behind the story is that, like many felons who realize the life saving nature of guns, so petition a court to restore their right to bear arms, this guy’s lawyer did so as well. Judges are surprisingly reasonable in most cases to gun rights restoration.
But in this case the judge probably not only said “No!”, but “Hell No!”
And this is why we have judges. While there are a lot of people that a judge might reasonably suspect should not have guns, because having them would make them a danger to themselves or others; that felony conviction makes all the difference in the world.
With a felony conviction, the judge can say no. Now in that this man probably has considerable wealth, he could appeal that decision, but even he probably suspected that the appellate just would probably say much the same thing.
Until I learn more I'd say he's an innocent man being harrased by Jack Booted Thugs for simply owning weapons, an ancient right of our people.
It's best for us to leave California.
Yes sir, if your sentence is finished. probation over, fines paid etc after release, you should not be stopped from exercising any rights of a “man” in society.
I sure think so. The way it is handled now creates a caste society by color of law. To my thinking that goes against the grain of traditional American principles of equality of justice, liberty and freedom.
Thank you. I appreciate your consideration of my views.
So which soloflex attachments build the trigger finger muscles?
I also hate the way they charge a suspect with every crime under the sun. If a person assault someone, why add the fact that he was screaming obscenities, prejudicial slurs, spitting, carrying a sharpened comb, had a gun in the car with bullets in his jacket, was found to be nearly drunk in public, was out after midnight on a school night, or illegal discharge of a weapon, illegal discharge of a weapon while in the act of robbing a guy. You get my drift though, if they have very slim evidence, they can always throw the kitchen sink at you, then the jury is easily persuaded to convict on something. Once that happens, your rights as a human are terminated. There is a web site, threefeloniesaday...check it out, there is nobody that could withstand scrutiny of the law if they want to get you.
Much too true. I can understand why they use a tactic like that on a career criminal that they have a hard time getting evidence on. But it seems like LE tends to extend the practice across the board. Any contact becomes an excuse to go fishing.
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