Owner of gun and knife show pleads guilty to illegal possession of guns and ammunition

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No more S&D gun show?

"NEW BERN, Craven County — The owner of the S & D Gun and Knife Show has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing firearms and ammunition while being a felon.

United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. says Sherwood Caraway, 62,of Merritt was convicted in federal court in 2005 of selling firearms without a license, but despite the felony conviction he continued to possess guns and ammunition at his home.

In September of 2017, the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant for his home and found nine firearms and dozens of boxes of ammunition. Higdon adds that another 33 firearms were seized from Caraway’s daughter’s house nearby."

https://wcti12.com/news/local/owner...-to-illegal-possession-of-guns-and-ammunition
 
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This case is part of the Take Back North Carolina Initiative of The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, which Higdon says assigns federal prosecutors to work with local police and prosecutors in several regions to reduce the violent crime rate, drug trafficking, and crimes against law enforcement.
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Wonder if being a felon was the only crime that put him on the radar here. And wonder what the felony was.
 
fieldgrade said:
Wonder if being a felon was the only crime that put him on the radar here. And wonder what the felony was.
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Ummm, selling firearms without a license.:p:):):):)


“convicted in federal court in 2005 of selling firearms without a license”
 
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And seized firearms from his daughter's house?
 
fieldgrade said:
Wonder if being a felon was the only crime that put him on the radar here. And wonder what the felony was.
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Sherwood Caraway, 62,of Merritt was convicted in federal court in 2005 of selling firearms without a license, but despite the felony conviction he continued to possess guns and ammunition at his home.

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He lost his own personal guns (ands his daughter's) because he failed to pay the king’s ransom in order to have a license to sell guns. Yea, I know, not a good idea, but this is the “initiative" he was busted under, "This case is part of the Take Back North Carolina Initiative of The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, which Higdon says assigns federal prosecutors to work with local police and prosecutors in several regions to reduce the violent crime rate, drug trafficking, and crimes against law enforcement.”

Was he contributing to that? I dunno.
 
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Diablos said:
A license to sell what we are rightfully entitled to via the laws of nature. Piss up a rope with your made up bs government, id vote not guilty
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And forfieture of rights for having the audacity to exercise those rights without first asking for and obtaining permission?

In my view, there is indistinguishable evidence of the law being broken here.
 
The people will have the rights that they’re willing to claim and fight for. The illegitimate state has declared that it has the right to deny you those rights and does so under the threat of violence, up to including deadly force. Think about it. Of course fighting for those rights doesn’t necessarily include physical violence and can mean through legal process and other means, but the option can’t be taken off the table for reasons that should be obvious.
 
Would someone who sold guns without a license, and then possessed guns as a convicted felon, follow the laws currently about selling only to folks who should legally own guns? I'm not sure.
 
"In September of 2017, the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant for his home and found nine firearms and dozens of boxes of ammunition."

Probably a silly question as the "logical" leap would be if there is ammunition there are firearms (as there was in this case), but is this just sensationally reporting the of "dozens of boxes of ammunition" or ammo being found in a felons house a crime also?
 
Convicted felons can't own ammunition under USC or NC (which mirrors most of the US code). Doesn't include black powder or percussion caps, but DOES include 209 primers as components of smokeless ammo.

In other words, he should've had a Ruger Old Army with a stout 40gr load of powder behind a nice lead ball ..........that's what Ollie North suggested when asked about how his felony affected his ownership of firearms many years ago ;)

Or like was mentioned, once a criminal in the eyes of the state, why bother with obeying any firearms regulatory statutes. Hell he should have had a claymore security system with ALL sides toward enemies.

My guess about the daughter was she was perhaps doing some straw buying, etc.
That should be a warning to all who would 'stash a firearm or 2 at a relatives for safe keeping' etc.
 
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Torn about this.....selling one's personal property should be sacred. The rules he broke for his Felony are wrong in my sight. Still he knew the "rules" and made a decision. We will all face this in the future, this "new rules" thing. I knew folks in post '68 who didn't keep any more records than they did prior to the then "new rules". I guess grown folks make a decision as to what they will or will not tolerate and go on. Sometime they get swept up in the Enforcement end....I'm torn about this.
 
I don't understand? I thought that the police and deputies took an oath to defend the Constitution? :p
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Torn about this.....selling one's personal property should be sacred. The rules he broke for his Felony are wrong in my sight. Still he knew the "rules" and made a decision. We will all face this in the future, this "new rules" thing. I knew folks in post '68 who didn't keep any more records than they did prior to the then "new rules". I guess grown folks make a decision as to what they will or will not tolerate and go on. Sometime they get swept up in the Enforcement end....I'm torn about this.
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Nothing to be torn about, the constitution is a simple document.

Shall not be infringed
 
United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. says Sherwood Caraway, 62,of Merritt was convicted in federal court in 2005 of selling firearms without a license, but despite the felony conviction he continued to possess guns and ammunition at his home.

Geez...

It’s not like he was supplying arms to Mexican drug cartels.
 
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