Ok I am not comfortable with convicted burglar Howard having an AK-47. BUT, being a felon in one state and not in another seems odd. Unfair. AND, the baggie thing sounds a little strange. I have a baggie in my cup holder that is full of coins. I use baggies for all sorts of things and in all sorts of places. They are cheap and convenient. I have several in my purse.
Now I do not know exactly what the cop is talking about. With the slit or twist or whatever it was perhaps that is more suspect. I really do not know. But it is WEAK.
1. Well, I am. He's OK to be free to walk the streets, he's OK to do it armed, like any free citizen.
2. I suspect journalistic malpractice in describing a similar looking semi-auto rifle as an "AK-47", but on the off chance it really was one, he passed a proctological FBI/BATFE background check and paid a $200 tax and an exorbitant purchase price for one manufactured before 1986. That should make him "legal" to own it.
3. Obviously, I'm one of those weirdos that believes that the Second Amendment is, by it's own wording, the only legal "gun law" in the United States of America and its territories. And I vote that way every chance I get!