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  • rambone

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    A man who hurt nobody, and technically broke no laws, was turned into a convicted felon and has had his life ruined thanks to New Jersey’s tyrannical gun control laws. Almost 5 years later, and still fighting to clear his name, Brian Aitken makes a desperate attempt to get his son returned to him, whom he hasn’t seen in years. And he needs our help.

    On January 2, 2009, Brian complied with New Jerey police in their request to search his car, filled with his belongings as he was in the middle of moving to a new home. Deep inside his trunk they found Brian’s handguns, buried beneath his clothes and nicknacks. In a duffel bag, police found three handguns; “unloaded, disassembled, cleaned and wrapped in a cloth.” Aitken had abided by everything the gun controllers in New Jersey had demanded. The police arrested Aitken anyway, charging him with unlawful possession of a weapon.

    Facing serious charges, Aitken’s life went downhill fast. “All of a sudden I couldn’t even be a parent anymore. I wasn’t allowed to see my son. I lost my house. I spent every penny that I had trying to get custody back of my son, and trying to fight these charges from the state, even though I had never hurt anyone,” said Aitken.

    Aitken was later CONVICTED and sentenced to 7 YEARS IN PRISON. By the activism of gun owners and freedom activists, he received a commuted sentence after several months in prison. But it wasn't a pardon. He is still a convicted felon and hasn't seen his little boy in 4 years.

    Brian Aitken’s story puts a human face on the arbitrary gun laws that so many people seem to support in the name of “safety” and “common sense.” The reality is that gun control destroys lives, it destroys families, it destroys freedom, and it keeps no one safer. There are people just like Brian in prison all over the country, locked up for hurting nobody.


    He's petitioning to get his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. His life has been ruined by the last 5 years of legal bull****. He has under 4 days to meet his funding goals.

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    beararms1776

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    Doesn't sound like a case of the bad dad syndrome to me. Sounds more like someone using the kid for their political whipping post.
     

    88GT

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    Yeah, I'm thinking the mother might have something to do with that.
    Might be, but he was erroneously convicted, and if that conviction is being used to influence custodial decisions in family court......not too much of a stretch to say NJ holds a fair bit of the blame.

    EDIT: it's the state thinking it has the power to control us. N.J. high court tosses gun charges The search of his car was questionable in the first place.
     

    KG1

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    Yup. This is the kinda guy that NJ needed those stringent gun laws to protect the general public from.

    Let's make him a convicted felon for the "unlawful possession of a weapon". That should improve his chances in a custodial battle. Unintentional consequences? Maybe not. Punish the well intentioned gun owners.
     
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    KG1

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    Correction based upon further review of the case.
     
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    Destro

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    You must have it mixed up with another case. I believe he was convicted of "felony possession of a firearm"

    hmm, maybe the media is mistaken, in 88GT's linked article it says

    "the court upheld Aitken's conviction for illegally carrying hollow-nosed bullets.
    State law allows for hollow-nosed bullets to be stored in people's homes, but they can only be transported by someone traveling directly to an authorized location for hunting, target practice or shooting exhibitions, according to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety."
     

    KG1

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    hmm, maybe the media is mistaken, in 88GT's linked article it says

    "the court upheld Aitken's conviction for illegally carrying hollow-nosed bullets.
    State law allows for hollow-nosed bullets to be stored in people's homes, but they can only be transported by someone traveling directly to an authorized location for hunting, target practice or shooting exhibitions, according to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety."
    Just read that. All the previous stories made no mention of the HP ammunition charge.
     

    dirtfarmerz

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    On January 2, 2009, Brian complied with New Jerey police in their request to search his car, filled with his belongings as he was in the middle of moving to a new home. Deep inside his trunk they found Brian’s handguns, buried beneath his clothes and nicknacks. In a duffel bag, police found three handguns; “unloaded, disassembled, cleaned and wrapped in a cloth.” Aitken had abided by everything the gun controllers in New Jersey had demanded. The police arrested Aitken anyway, charging him with unlawful possession of a weapon.

    Brian was moving to a new residence in New Jersey. Brian did call the police ahead of time because he wanted to be sure that he was transporting his guns correctly. The judge in that case would not allow consideration of that information. The judge was a radical "gun hater" and he wanted to punish Brian Aitken. They may have gotten him on a charge of possessing JHP ammo, but he was transporting it to his new residence.

    He was let out of prison because his case was all over the news and people were paying attention for a few minutes. The "good guys" released him, but did only enough to get passed the fact that they were "getting heat" from the public. This is similar to a lot of things they do; they push until they feel the heat and then back off for awhile. It's like when Van Jones was all over the news; they had him resign quickly because they didn't want people to debate his radical views publicly. A lot of people would have questioned why a radical communist was our nation's Green Czar. Brian Aitken was released to show how much the "good guys" support our gun rights, but they actually only met the minimum requirements to avoid this being in the public view for too long.

    The "bad guys" count on us giving up after 15 minutes. This guy was a normal dad trying to keep out of trouble. Try to imagine yourself in his position. They are passing so many laws that it will be easy for them to bust anyone they want. They are passing laws without clear definition. They are searching us whenever they want. All it will take is for one of you to not submit to a search and you could find yourself in court. Even though you may be in the "right", you could pull your arm away if one of them put a hand on you, then you're in trouble. Just trying to explain that Brian Aitken tried to do it right, but his life is a mess because some liberals hate gun owners.
     

    mrjarrell

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    We discussed Brian at some length during his travails and more than a few of us got involved (as best we could) in helping Brian get his sentence commuted (it should have been a full pardon, but Christie is a ****head). I'm really rooting for him in his latest effort. Hope he gets all he's looking for, he's a great guy.

    https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...-nj-imprisons-gunowner-who-broke-no-laws.html

    https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/legislation-2nd-amendment/125679-thank-you-brian-aitken.html

    https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...n-convicted-lawfully-possessing-firearms.html
     

    MisterChester

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    As a former resident of NJ, this is sadly an accurate representation of how the state feels about guns. If they could ban guns legally, they would. It is harder to be able to handle an unloaded gun in a store than it is to get a LTCH here in Indiana.
     

    JettaKnight

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    This sort is all sorts of drama.
    1. The child custody battle occurred (started) before the arrest.
    2. He RETURNED to his parent's house where the Gestapo was waiting for him.
    3. I don't think he could have hid under interstate laws because his destination was in NJ.
    4. Hollow point bullets are illegal, so technically, yes, he did break the law.
    5. What were the cops fishing for and why?
    6. The Judge was completely unreasonable.
    6. Did unreasonable laws damage his life? YES!!!!

    Lesson? AVOID NEW JERSEY AT ALL COST!
     

    mrjarrell

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    Brian has a bit of commentary about the judge in his case, on Facebook.
    [h=5]Brian Aitken
    [/h][h=5]The same judge that refused to allow the jury to consider the exemptions in Brian's case (even though they asked three times to be permitted to consider them) also decided it was ok for a police officer to force cows to give him oral sex because there was no way to know that the cows didn't enjoy the assault.

    “They [children] enjoy the act of suckling, cows may be of a different disposition.” - Judge Morley

    By Morley's logic it's ok to molest children and cows... because they both enjoy the act of suckling and it's impossible to know if they don't enjoy the assault.

    Officer Robert Melia also molested three underage girls and was later convicted on 22 charges, including sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct.

    Three weeks after Brian was convicted James Morley was kicked off the bench by Governor Christie.

    SOURCES:
    Former N.J. judge not reappointed by Gov. Christie says he was kicked off bench unfairly: Former N.J. judge not reappointed by Gov. Christie says he was kicked off bench unfairly | NJ.com

    Judge of the Day: James Morley: http://abovethelaw.com/2009/09/judge-of-the-day-james-morley/

    Robert Melia, Moorestown Cop, Guilty of Sex Crimes: Robert Melia, Moorestown Cop, Guilty of Sex Crimes - Police & Fire - Moorestown, NJ Patch


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    KLB

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    hmm, maybe the media is mistaken, in 88GT's linked article it says

    "the court upheld Aitken's conviction for illegally carrying hollow-nosed bullets.
    State law allows for hollow-nosed bullets to be stored in people's homes, but they can only be transported by someone traveling directly to an authorized location for hunting, target practice or shooting exhibitions, according to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety."
    So, if someone is moving they must throw all of their ammunition away?

    I do not see how it can be legal to have them in your home, but not legal to transport them when you are moving to a new home.
     
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