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NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom'
Red State ^ | 4/22/24 | Jeff Charles

Posted on 04/22/2024 4:40:33 PM PDT by CFW

A Brooklyn man has been convicted of 13 weapons charges after having been arrested and charged in 2022 for building his own firearms. Dexter Taylor’s ordeal could become a landmark Second Amendment case in light of the Bruen ruling handed down in the same year.

The jury found Taylor guilty of second-degree criminal possession of a loaded weapon, four counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, five counts of criminal possession of a firearm, second-degree criminal possession of five or more firearms, unlawful possession of pistol ammunition, violation of certificate of registration, prohibition on unfinished frames or receivers. Two lesser charges, including third-degree criminal possession of three or more firearms and third-degree possession of a weapon, were not voted on.

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The judge disrupted Varghese’s opening statement multiple times as he tried to set the stage for Taylor’s defense. Even further, she admonished the defense to refrain from mentioning the Second Amendment during the trial. Varghese told RedState:

She told us, ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.'

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; constitution; hh2; newyork; ny
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The problem is that judges and public officials have sovereign immunity even when found to have violated people's rights. There needs to be personal repercussions for judges who deliberately violate a Defendant's rights. Examples: This case and the cases against DJT.
1 posted on 04/22/2024 4:40:33 PM PDT by CFW
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Overturn and impeach this Affirmative Action judge.


2 posted on 04/22/2024 4:45:23 PM PDT by nwrep
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Wow!

What a power trip.

She needs to be unseated but fast.


3 posted on 04/22/2024 4:45:27 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: CFW

Can something be done about the Young Lady, who, I believe took an oath and now does not honor it?

Just askin’.


4 posted on 04/22/2024 4:46:00 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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Uh, was the person making firearms in the courtroom? Were there armed officers in the courtroom? Hey judge.....🖕


5 posted on 04/22/2024 4:46:52 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

lol — exactly


6 posted on 04/22/2024 4:47:58 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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(She told us, ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.’)

Wrong, Nazi witch

WRONG


7 posted on 04/22/2024 4:51:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Did he also quote from his Democratic forebearers that blacks have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”?


8 posted on 04/22/2024 4:52:00 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin.)
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To: CFW

Short drop, sudden stop.


9 posted on 04/22/2024 4:52:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: CFW

In a more civilized age… there were personal repercussions.


10 posted on 04/22/2024 4:54:09 PM PDT by Skywise
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The Second Amendment is alive and well in every U. S. courtroom
your dishonor.


11 posted on 04/22/2024 4:55:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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Where in the hell does an African bimbo get off saying there is no American Bill of Rights in HER sh*thouse “court”. It should be unconstitutional for foreign refugee freeloaders sitting on OUR courts. America isn’t Africa!


12 posted on 04/22/2024 4:56:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Guns don't commit "gun violence." They don't even know what the hell "gun violence" is.)
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To: kiryandil

This is the way.


13 posted on 04/22/2024 4:57:06 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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This biatch has a problem with the way we do things out of the jungle. She has no business on a court set up for Americans. If the Second Amendment to the Bill of Right doesn’t ‘exists” in her sheddy court, it’s not an American court.


14 posted on 04/22/2024 4:59:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Guns don't commit "gun violence." They don't even know what the hell "gun violence" is.)
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John Adams, Founding Father, second president of the United States and a leader of the American Revolution:

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

And therein lies the problem.

In general, most of our federal government and much of our 50 state governments are no longer composed of moral and religious people.


15 posted on 04/22/2024 5:00:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro (When Islam dominates democracy, freedom and non-Islamic people die)
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I say we declare that the 8th Amendment doesn’t exist in this judge’s home.

L


16 posted on 04/22/2024 5:01:04 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Wow!

"Proof of your innocence shall not be allowed, here!"

17 posted on 04/22/2024 5:06:26 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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At the company where I worked, I was having a conversation at lunch with an amateur gun smith who worked in our shop. He did his gunsmithing at home. The HR manager was sitting behind us. When I got back from lunch I was called into the VP’s office and told she wanted to write us both up for a violation in the companies “do not talk policy.” The policy, which was a contract because it wasn’t legal, specified things like not telling jokes, not discussing religion, or sex or politics, etc. I pointed out that gunsmithing wasn’t on the list. He said, “You’re an intelligent guy. You should be able to read between the lines.” Turns out they couldn’t write me up as I dealt directly with the Navy, and it might have been bad politics to write me up. Especially for that. Since they couldn’t write me up, they couldn’t write up the amateur gun smith. I went down to talk to him. He looked around to be certain we were alone and said, “Yeah, they talked to me too. God, this place sucks.” I mention this because the liberalism anti-gun stuff is widespread and omnipresent.


18 posted on 04/22/2024 5:07:15 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Where in the hell does an African bimbo get off saying there is no American Bill of Rights in HER sh*thouse “court”.

\/

do these judges carry a bond ?

are any in that court bonded ?

if so...

www.bondsforthewin.com


19 posted on 04/22/2024 5:07:52 PM PDT by cuz1961
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Black women are going to kill us all.

20 posted on 04/22/2024 5:08:39 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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