Now it is to oppress and intimidate, huh?
"Writer on Cape slaying indicted on gun charges" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | August 23, 2008
Peter Manso, the Cape Cod writer who is finishing a book on the 2002 slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington, was indicted yesterday on a dozen firearms charges and promptly said it was an attempt to silence him by the same law enforcement officials he criticizes in his book.
Truro police officers responding to a burglar alarm at Manso's unoccupied house in December seized three firearms, including an assault rifle. The weapons lacked trigger locks and Manso did not have a valid firearms license, police said.
So WHAT COP SET IT OFF?
Manso attributed the alleged violations largely to a change in state gun laws in 1998 that requires that firearm identification cards be renewed every four years, instead of being valid for life.
What?
He said he never received a renewal notice from the state. The real reason for the prosecution, he said, is because of his work. "I am charged with a technical violation of gun possession with an out-of-date permit by the very D.A. who is the focus of my book," Manso said in the statement.
Manso's lawyer, Joseph J. Balliro, of Boston, said that "perhaps half a million" other Massachusetts gun owners were probably equally unaware that they need to renew their licenses. He also said that Truro police searched Manso's house illegally while responding to the alarm. In July 2002, a State House committee found that thousands of Massachusetts residents were probably unaware that they needed to renew fire identification cards.
No, I was not aware of that fact.
WTF is with this god-damned shit state?
First the health care cut-offs and now this!!!!
Sig Heil, you bastards!
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