Al Norris
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I must have missed that in the original post. Care to point out where in that or another post that it was said that the authorities RECOVERED any weapon?Rockstar said:
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Cosmoline
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So, no, they did not execute a SW and obtain the weapons in the dorm room. The fool told the cops where the firearms were and admitted they were his. If he'd stayed quiet the cops would have had to try to find the firearms at the "undisclosed location"--probably not the dorm room.
Now the fellow is finished, because he cooperated. NEVER TRUST A COP!
Cosmoline
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Or just say nothing. The cops come and search the dorm room, finding nothing. The photo would never constitute sufficient proof of possession. It's no different from a photo of someone who appears to be smoking pot in a dorm room. The photo can't take the stand and testify.
pcf
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The police do not need a search warrant to enter a dorm room, they only have to have permission from the campus/campus' agent to enter. They may need a search warrant to open closets, containers, etc. It would really depend on the terms and conditions agreed upon to live in the dormitory and state law.
On most college campuses, living in the dorm is the equivalent of signing away all rights.
For we all know a Dorm manager or campus security was there too, waiting to search the room. He still should have kept his mouth shut, but the rifle probably would have been found.
If you live in a college dorm, you are at the mercy of the college's political whims.
On most college campuses, living in the dorm is the equivalent of signing away all rights.
For we all know a Dorm manager or campus security was there too, waiting to search the room. He still should have kept his mouth shut, but the rifle probably would have been found.
If you live in a college dorm, you are at the mercy of the college's political whims.
Uh....
How can they prove that he was in California when he had these pictures taken???
I agree that you shouldn't flaunt breaking the law, but who is to say he did?? Why don't they arrest some drug dealers. Drug dealers stand on street corners with a back pack full of narcotics and a gun in there posession.
How can they prove that he was in California when he had these pictures taken???
I agree that you shouldn't flaunt breaking the law, but who is to say he did?? Why don't they arrest some drug dealers. Drug dealers stand on street corners with a back pack full of narcotics and a gun in there posession.
Vex
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A good kid that just happens to have been on probation.
geekWithA.45
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That varies radically from one jurisdiction to the next.
Even in NJ, we easily held the campus cops at bay on several occassions, with the simple expedient of politely refusing them entry to our apartment, denying them a clear view into the interior, and having a party crowd that knew how to hush up in a hurry.
They might have some words, but they eventually would go away.
I don't recall all the details, but the SC has noted that the Bill of Rights does not end at the schoolyard gates.
A lot of the stuff about highschools searching lockers is less about 4A, and more about in loco parentis.
BostonGeorge
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Yeah, this kid is clearly a 'skell'
Vex
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skell ( P ) Pronunciation Key (skl)
n. Slang
A homeless person who lives as a derelict.
n. Slang
A homeless person who lives as a derelict.
Standing Wolf
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I find myself missing the temperate climate and beaches less and less.
BostonGeorge
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Where'd you find that Vex? I had heard the term in passing but never thought of it as an accepted form of speech. Anyways, I've always heard it used along the same lines as perp and scumbag in police circles.
The more you know.....
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Drizzt
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Police locate missing assault rifle in college campus case
Posted on Tuesday, April 11 @ 16:09:02 GMT
Lassen County News Headline After receiving an anonymous tip in the late afternoon of Monday, April 3, the Susanville Police were able to recover an assault rifle and a portion of a shotgun barrel at a home in Lake Almanor.
By Barbara France
Managing Editor
The rifle is allegedly one of two weapons owned by Lassen Community College wrestler Matthew Louis Maumoynier, 21, who was arrested in Saturday, Feb. 11 in Coos Bay, Ore.
Maumoynier, also a Chester resident, was charged with possessing an assault rifle, possessing firearms on a college campus, furnishing or loaning a high capacity magazine and probation violation. His bail was set at $45,000. He is still awaiting his court date.
During the month of January, the police department began investigating allegations that college students at LCC were in possession of various firearms in the dorm rooms, according to a SPD press release.
Several photos showing both past and present students holding various types of firearms in the dorm rooms were put on the World Wide Web blog site called myspace.com.
College officials brought it to the attention of the police department when college staff discovered the photos.
According to Detective Rodd Joseph, during the lengthy investigation, one of the weapons in the photos was determined to be an assault rifle. These types of rifles are illegal to possess in California unless the owner has a permit.
On April 3, the SPD, taking the tip seriously, headed to the Plumas County residence working on the tip throughout the evening.
The rifle and shotgun barrel were found in the bedroom of an 18-year-old Lake Almanor man. According to Joseph, Maumoynier allegedly gave the rifle and barrel to the 18-year-old to conceal them from law enforcement. The police have custody of both the rifle and shotgun.
http://www.lassennews.com/News_Story.edi?sid=3235&mode=thread&order=0
Posted on Tuesday, April 11 @ 16:09:02 GMT
Lassen County News Headline After receiving an anonymous tip in the late afternoon of Monday, April 3, the Susanville Police were able to recover an assault rifle and a portion of a shotgun barrel at a home in Lake Almanor.
By Barbara France
Managing Editor
The rifle is allegedly one of two weapons owned by Lassen Community College wrestler Matthew Louis Maumoynier, 21, who was arrested in Saturday, Feb. 11 in Coos Bay, Ore.
Maumoynier, also a Chester resident, was charged with possessing an assault rifle, possessing firearms on a college campus, furnishing or loaning a high capacity magazine and probation violation. His bail was set at $45,000. He is still awaiting his court date.
During the month of January, the police department began investigating allegations that college students at LCC were in possession of various firearms in the dorm rooms, according to a SPD press release.
Several photos showing both past and present students holding various types of firearms in the dorm rooms were put on the World Wide Web blog site called myspace.com.
College officials brought it to the attention of the police department when college staff discovered the photos.
According to Detective Rodd Joseph, during the lengthy investigation, one of the weapons in the photos was determined to be an assault rifle. These types of rifles are illegal to possess in California unless the owner has a permit.
On April 3, the SPD, taking the tip seriously, headed to the Plumas County residence working on the tip throughout the evening.
The rifle and shotgun barrel were found in the bedroom of an 18-year-old Lake Almanor man. According to Joseph, Maumoynier allegedly gave the rifle and barrel to the 18-year-old to conceal them from law enforcement. The police have custody of both the rifle and shotgun.
http://www.lassennews.com/News_Story.edi?sid=3235&mode=thread&order=0
crazed_ss
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Our Assault Weapons ban is absolutely disgusting. 
American By Blood
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crazed ss said:
I feel your pain. Although not as onerous, MD has an assault weapons ban as well. It's maddening.
One other side note. LCC has a very large gunsmithing program and you can get an AA degree for gun smithing. Sort of seems strange that you can build and work on guns on campus but you will be arrested if you own one. Can't figure that one out.
At one time I was a member of the LCC rifle team which competed in rifle matches all over Northen Cali and Navada. I am not a gun smith. I never lived in a dorm room there.
At one time I was a member of the LCC rifle team which competed in rifle matches all over Northen Cali and Navada. I am not a gun smith. I never lived in a dorm room there.
DontBurnMyFlag
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im waiting for them to knock on my door.
http://www.myspace.com/1858453
haha dont mind the pick with my finger on the trigger and the hammer cocked, it wasnt loaded and it was sadly my first time firing a handgun. Im much better with my trigger finger and everything else
http://www.myspace.com/1858453
haha dont mind the pick with my finger on the trigger and the hammer cocked, it wasnt loaded and it was sadly my first time firing a handgun. Im much better with my trigger finger and everything else
Autolycus
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Dontburnmyflag: Sent you a myspace.com friends request.
I will be posting some pictures of me and my toys daring the police to come raid my house for something that is not illegal.
I will be posting some pictures of me and my toys daring the police to come raid my house for something that is not illegal.
I am a college instructor by profession.
I am very familiar with myspace.com and facebook.com.
If you are going to have guns in a dorm room illegally, and also have guns in violation of your probation, then try to not take photos of yourself with those guns in your dorm room and if you do take those photos, try to keep them from winding up on an internet sight.
Okay, enough sarcasm.
Here's how I really feel.
I have checked out myspace.com and facebook.com.
I have seen the pictures that students at my college have taken of themselves and put on the internet.
Several of my students are, judging from those pictures, pure, simple moronic dolts.
They have posted photographic proof of themselves engaging in underaged drinking inside a dorm they all had to sign a "no alcohol" policy to get into.
They have posted photographic proof of themselves engaging in drunken driving, drinking and playing with guns, engaging in petty theft, and all manner of activities that are illegal, dangerous, and downright friggin' stupid.
If you are so friggin' stupid as to put up photos of yourself engaging in illegal, dangerous, stupid or otherwise negative behavior onto an Internet site, you absolutely deserve it when you get arrested, or kicked out of your dorm room, or denied your scholarship, or denied a job after graduation.
You have proven yourself to be merely too stupid.
hillbilly
I am very familiar with myspace.com and facebook.com.
If you are going to have guns in a dorm room illegally, and also have guns in violation of your probation, then try to not take photos of yourself with those guns in your dorm room and if you do take those photos, try to keep them from winding up on an internet sight.
Okay, enough sarcasm.
Here's how I really feel.
I have checked out myspace.com and facebook.com.
I have seen the pictures that students at my college have taken of themselves and put on the internet.
Several of my students are, judging from those pictures, pure, simple moronic dolts.
They have posted photographic proof of themselves engaging in underaged drinking inside a dorm they all had to sign a "no alcohol" policy to get into.
They have posted photographic proof of themselves engaging in drunken driving, drinking and playing with guns, engaging in petty theft, and all manner of activities that are illegal, dangerous, and downright friggin' stupid.
If you are so friggin' stupid as to put up photos of yourself engaging in illegal, dangerous, stupid or otherwise negative behavior onto an Internet site, you absolutely deserve it when you get arrested, or kicked out of your dorm room, or denied your scholarship, or denied a job after graduation.
You have proven yourself to be merely too stupid.
hillbilly
Erebus
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From the title of the article they found the gun in his dorm room. Which means the day they brought him in for questioning it was probably there then too. Now if he had denied that he had the rifle they would have requested permission to search his dorm. If he said no they would likely assume it was there and delayed him long enough to get a warrent and search it before he could get there and get the gun out. Or tail him so he can't sneak away with it. What he should have done was been very careful how he admitted he had it and never said words that indicated it was a real gun, just generalize. They send him to get the gun and bring it back and he comes back and says, "damn it's missing", but it was just a toy anyway no harm done. The burden of proof is on them to show in court that the gun in a picture is real. And how high a resolution image was used on a website? Most likely not very. I have a plastic toy m16 from when I was a kid that I bet I could spray paint and make it look very convincing.
So why when they let him go to retrieve the gun, when he clearly had no intention of coming back anyway, didn't he deposit the gun in the bottom of a river or something?!?! At least don't leave the most damning piece of evidence in the most damning, not to mention obvious, location possible.
This kid is an idiot on so many levels.
megatronrules
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Hmmmmmm I'am 27 and live in Florida does this mean if I post a pic of my posing with my colt 1911 that I'am gonna go to jail?
mbs357
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Tempted to put pictures of me with an AK or AR-15 on MySpace just to see what happens.
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RealGun
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You watch. Someone will decide that constitutes brandishing. I am not saying it is, but stupid stuff happens.
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