Bethel man sentenced in firearms case
by The Associated Press
Jan 24, 2012 | 1801 views | 5 5 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend | print
BETHEL, Alaska - A 43-year-old Bethel man has been sentenced to four years in prison for being a felon illegally possessing firearms.

KYUK (http://bit.ly/xzpzDH ) says John Robert Weber has felony convictions in Alaska, Oregon, and Nevada, which means he should not have been in possession of firearms.

Weber was sentenced Friday in federal court in Anchorage. He was convicted in August.

Authorities say Weber was found to have two shotguns and one rifle at his tattoo shop in Bethel in August 2010 after Alaska State Troopers found 11 ounces of marijuana in his luggage, which he had brought with him from Anchorage.

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teapartypatriot_2
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January 24, 2012
The federal and state constitutions were violated with this case. We are not stupid. The right to bear arms shall not be infringed upon per the second amendment.

Furthermore, the FBI looks the other way when about 300 felons at Ft. Wainwright carry their arms to the shooting range. The federal LEO's selectively infringe on people's rights and that is also another violation of equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Constitution.

Our federal LEO's step over the line again and again including the Cox case where they did not obtain a search warrant.

I am more afraid of the government now than the criminals.

nickeli
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January 25, 2012
TPP wrote:

"We are not stupid."

His post proves just how stupid tpp2 is.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the 2d Amendment, right to bear arms.

teapartypatriot_2
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January 25, 2012
nickeli, This case has everything to do with the 2nd amendment that says:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed

Felons are allowed to bear arms to protect our country while serving in the military. Any rule that says felons cannot bear arms is in violation of the 2nd amendment.
40wintersN64
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January 25, 2012
tpp2 - This supposed violation of the 2nd Amendment is in your mind only. It's been a long time cornerstone of enforcement that felons cannot possess firearms as a result of their sentence. In fact, the past 4 years or so, the feds have had agents actively seeking people with 10-15 yr old felony convictions to see if they have weapons in their possession. Guess what? A significant number of them did/do, and they are being prosecuted for it.
teapartypatriot_2
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January 25, 2012
The 2nd amendment is easy to read and easy to interpret. No one is going to change that. The courts and LEO's are not complying with the Constitution when they infringe on people's right to bear arms.

This is one reason their is a movement toward citizen militias. Too many of us beleive that the federal government has strayed from the rights that are protected by our Constitution.

If the feds want to change the Constitution then they should seek Constitutional amendments to modify the Constitution. Until then I know in my heart and mind that the right to bear arms is fundamental right guranteed by the US Constitution and anyone proscecuted for owning a firearm is being done so unjustly.
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