[tired&retired]

During the stop, the driver, Marlon Murphy, 45, of Easton, Pennsylvania, said the drum contained a shotgun and ammunition.

Mageros found a 12-gauge shotgun wrapped in a pair of pants inside the drum, Port Authority Police spokesman Joe Pentangelo said. He also found 175 rounds of ammunition.

Murphy, who could produce no documentation for the shotgun, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon. He was being held in lieu of $30,000 bail and his truck was impounded.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Shotgun-in-Plastic-Drum-Leads-to-Holland-Tunnel-Arrest-375188921.html

[Blue Jays]

That is the serious side of the situation...aside from all the kidding happening in this thread.

The poor guy may have never so much as gotten a parking ticket in his life, and now he is in JAIL, his clean truck is probably in a shambles already at impound, he is likely facing a NJ felony, and he is on the hook for $30,000 bail. That is the kind of insanity that could drive a normal person to swing from the ceiling by his belt or shoestrings.

I will wager since he is likely one of the "good guys" he had no idea of the full-weight of predatory law enforcement that was about to drop on his head. This is very grave and very unfortunate news for this man. Such a tragic thing to hear from what was almost certainly an honest mistake. :-(

[smokingfrog]

No documentation?
I guess you need to carry a pocket constitution with you at all times if you live in NJ.

[Does so]

During the stop, the driver, Marlon Murphy, 45, of Easton, Pennsylvania, said the drum contained a shotgun and ammunition "Who put that blue drum in my truck?"

[21twelve]

“...who could produce no documentation for the shotgun...”

Um, no officer. I do not have the receipt for this firearm on me at the moment. It was my dad’s gun, which was passed down to him by his dad.

I suppose in NJ that you have to register every gun?

“But I don’t live in New Jersey! And I wasn’t going to shoot it in New Jersey. I didn’t even STOP in New Jersey!!! And what part about ‘shall not infringe’ don’t you understand!!!???”

I’m guessing this guy can’t afford the lawyers the gay people hired to push for a national marriage law, but I would imagine that the same argument could be made for a national right-to-carry law.

BTW - years ago I lived in NJ. Some 18-year old helped his girlfriend’s family move and put the bb-gun behind his truck bench seat. He found it a few days later and he shot at street signs. One richocetted and hit a woman in the leg and she called the police.

He was given a mandatory sentence of something like 5 to 10 years. After spending almost a year in prison the governor pardoned him. (This would have been in the early 90’s).