NBC is dealing with an unexpected legal problem after a segment by David Gregory, who displayed what he said was a high-capacity ammunition clip on “Meet the Press.” D.C. law prohibits the possession of high-capacity ammunition clips. This may have been a case where a picture — or consultation with counsel — might have been in order. There is no exception for the media in such possession cases.
On the show with the National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre, Gregory showed him the clip and said “Here’s a magazine for ammunition that carries 30 bullets. Now, isn’t it possible that if we got rid of these . . . if we replaced them and said, ‘Well, you can only have a magazine that carries five bullets, or 10 bullets,’ isn’t it just possible that we could reduce the carnage in a situation like Newtown?”
The predictable response from LaPierre was “I don’t believe that’s going to make one difference.” The less predictable response came from gun owners and gun control advocates who noted that the possession of such a clip is a crime. The D.C. law states “No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device.” This does not require that the clip be attached to a weapon and does not appear to require that it have rounds in the clip.
The reported investigation could also ensnare those NBC employees who obtained and transported the clip.
I honestly believe that Gregory is not blameful and that the law should have some flexibility for news or artistic speech when the clip is empty of rounds. What do you think?
Source: Washington Post
Fabien Pruitt,
The NRA has more than three billion members?????
Old nurse. The NRA represents me and I’m not a weapons manufacturer or dealer. We are about 3,500,000,000 strong and 10s of millions claim to be members but don’t pay dues.
Yeah we need to ban on anything over 10 rounds because we know the 11th. Round is really the Deadly 1
Really?? Then why don’t you give me a history lesson. Using voice activated texting it screws up a lot sorry. Tens of millions of people were not murdered by the government ????
His interview with LaPierre stunk. He didn’t once ask about who the NRA really represents [weapons manufacturer’s] and that is the crux of the story.
I heard that there were 15 murders in Chicago the weekend of the Sandy Hook shootings.
Banned 15 shot clips in D.C. gee the murder rate must be zero there. What a bunch of idiots
wow, doesn’t know history and can’t form a complete sentence. we need better trolls.
It is the history of mankind. Lets not forget China and Russia and Romania and Cambodia. The slaughter of u unarmed people is the history of the 20th century. You can deny history. Let’s not forget the slaughter of on arm civilians in Rwanda. Again you can make snarky remarks all you want but the historical facts on my side. Only a disarm people can be slaughtered wholesale. To say it can’t happen again or it can’t happen here is ignorant of history. To believe we are somehow better people is elitist best
My my my, we do have some seriously swaggering dicks here.
And using the WWII slaughter of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, the mentally disabled to bolster their swagger. How very brave, and gratuitous.
Fabien,
Speaking to the culturally and mentally handicapped in derisive terms is not civil. The only thing that motivates you here is attention and/or lack of it.
Your claimed knowledge base is very narrow, and certainly does not include the Shoah.
You and others should leave that to the jews to explain. They have spent much time at it. Israel went your way simply because their neighbors forced them to go the everyman and a gun route.
Personally, I don’t want to end on my knees. But I see the whole (practically) of America, on theirs before the corporatocracy which rules there. And they do not know it, it seems to me.
Heated words, screaming debates, but no fights here, and certainly no guns to solve the issue. Only within the family, might the hunting rifle be used.
The rest can roam the streets without fear.
Come some summer and enjoy.
Malisha. The Jews and political prisoners did pretty much what you are endorsing in your post. Except for a few in the ghetto they did nothing. How did that work out for them???? It took other people with guns killing the bad guys and many civilians in the crossfire to stop the I industrialized murder machine. The world is better off for it. Before there were guns the biggest meanest people ruled over the weak. The gun brought equality to mankind and doesn’t allow the brutes in society to rule unless they allow themselves to be disarmed.
Only a dickhead would pick on Dick Gregory and accuse him of being too old or senile.
As to the clip. She me the money cop. Show me the clip. Sorry, it was one of those wallets from Hong Kong that thousands of people own. It holds money not bullets. If it was a clip, was there a spring in it? Was it complete? If it looks like a clip but is not a clip then its not illegal.
Then there is the story of that guy in NYC who put up the posters of the Mayor with his Drone program. The ipPays went to his house, searched it and busted him for having an unloaded 22 cal pistol under his bed. In Missouri he would have been busted for not keeping it loaded. What a nazi town NYC is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/david-gregory-police-investigation_n_2364637.html?ncid=webmail14
Malisha. Your use of the term “machine gun” shows a lack of knowledge of the subject. No one has been talking about machine guns in this discussion that I’m aware of. If so I apologize. We are talking about “look alike” guns. It’s like putting Porsche body kit on a 68 VW Bug. It may look like a Porsche but doesn’t perform like one. Until 1934 machine guns were easily available to the general public. We didn’t have the huge problem we have now. They said they “would make us safer” by not allowing us to have easy access to them. Things are far worse now. The Saint Valentines day massacre killed 7 and was the excuse for the new law. It is far worse now and now t hey want more gun control to “make us safer”
I would have used a steel Airsoft mag. On camera you can’t tell the difference. Even a polymer one looks the same and are even made by the same companies that make the real ones. But I guess they aren’t that smart.
Melissa. Yes! Shoot every one of those damn Gestapo as they came. Exactly. Eventually they WILL stop coming when the people they wanted to murder made them pay a price too high. Would rather of died fighting the Fascist than puking up my lungs in a gas chamber. But off course, they first passed laws disarming their victims, then they murdered them.The history of mankind is dungeons and killing fields. Never give up your right to self defence and self determination. We are NOT superior human beings. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Oops! “press for…”
Did the “no” response get to Gregory or the producer?
With only one round remaining in the 30-round clip, it should still be possible to shoot the messenger. Did LaPierre call any of his Congressional stooges to repress for an investigation, I wonder?