Reply #140: Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad

[one-eyed fat man]

Abdulhakim Muhammad was arrested in Knoxville on Feb. 21, 2004 with a sawed-off shotgun. Had the US Attorney there done his damn job Carlos Bledsoe would still be not quite a fifth of the way through his sentence for violating the National Firearms Act of 1934.

The police report indicates Muhammad was charged with both weapon and drug offenses but the weapon's charge was dismissed June 21, 2004, court records show.

John Gill, special counsel to Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols, said Wednesday he couldn't make any public statements about Bledsoe's case or explain why the charge was dismissed.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/04/ark-suspect-ar...

Another example of "catch and release" enforcement. Don't you think you deserve better from your elected officials than to let them deflect questions about their malfeasance by calling for even more laws crooks won't obey and, more pointedly, prosecutors won't prosecute?

Second point, no matter how many times you say it or some body puts it in the paper, an SKS was not and never was an "assault weapon" as defined by the expired Federal Ban. And since he was running around Yemen on a fake Somali passport, already had a documented history of possessing illegal weapons, it is not much of a stretch to figure he had contacts who could fix him up with all manner of illegal weaponry. The only law that might have prevented him from getting his hands on a gun is the Law of Gravity! And only then if the rope was short enough to keep his feet from touching the ground.