NRA Member Has House Raided for Giving His Son a Rifle
A proud little boy posed with his new 22 caliber rifle that he received as a birthday gift. The photo was posted on Facebook and an outraged liberal reported the family to the Child Abuse hotline. As a result, New Jersey Welfare agents and four cops demanded to inspect the family residence and look into the gun safe to check registration of weapons- all without a warrant. The state workers and police were told to leave the property and not come back until they had a warrant.
From CBS here:
The ruddy-cheeked, camouflage-clad boy in the photo smiles out from behind a pair of glasses, proudly holding a gun his father gave him as a present for his upcoming 11th birthday.
The weapon in the photo, posted by his dad on Facebook, resembles a military-style assault rifle but, his father says, is actually just a .22-caliber copy. And that, the family believes, is why child welfare case workers and police officers visited the home in Carneys Point last Friday and asked to see his guns.
The family and an attorney say father Shawn Moore’s Second Amendment rights to bear arms were threatened. In this case, the family believes someone called New Jersey’s anonymous child abuse hotline.
Shawn Moore said he gave his son Josh the gun as a present to use on hunting trips. The elder Moore was at a friend’s house when his wife called, saying state child welfare investigators, along with four local police officers, were at the house, asking to inspect the family’s guns.
Moore said he called his lawyer Evan Nappen, who specializes in Second Amendment cases, and had him on speakerphone as he arrived at his house in Carneys Point, just across the Delaware River from Wilmington, Del. “They said they wanted to see into my safe and see if my guns were registered,” Moore said. “I said no; in New Jersey, your guns don’t have to be registered with the state; it’s voluntary. I knew once I opened that safe, there was no going back.”
With the lawyer listening in on the phone, Moore said he asked the investigators and police officers whether they had a warrant to search his home. When they said no, he asked them to leave. One of the child welfare officials would not identify herself when Moore asked for her name, he said.
The agents and the police officers left, and nothing has happened since, he said.
These are the imperialists and the fascists of the left. If only that dirty Constitution that protects the rights to bear arms and illegal search and seizures didn’t get in the way, we’d be on our way to a perfect Statist Utopia.
