Reply #98: Actually, it's starting to turn out that Floyd the hero was another nutcase.

[Tesha]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/REPOSITORY/705150420/1043/NEWS01

Floyd had own run-ins

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
Monitor staff
May 15. 2007 8:00AM

The man who jumped to the aid of a shot police officer in Franconia
Friday offered a very different response several years ago to a pair
of New Hampshire troopers investigating him on a criminal charge.
In 1997, Gregory Floyd, 49, told the troopers how he'd kill them
if he wanted them dead.

"I know you wear vests," Floyd told them, according to court records.
"So I would have put it right between the eyes."

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In the past, Floyd has found himself the target of police investigations,
according to court records made available yesterday.

Floyd's arrest record goes back to at least 1981, when he was convicted
in Georgia of selling marijuana and theft by unauthorized taking, the
court records said. Floyd also had a misdemeanor offense of disturbing
the peace in Massachusetts, but the date of that offense was not
available yesterday. It is unclear from court records when Floyd,
his wife Michelle and son Gregory Floyd moved to New Hampshire.

He was in the state by 1997, when he was arrested twice within a month.

In May of that year, the state police charged Floyd with criminal
threatening for allegedly showing a clenched fist to a 24-year-old
meter reader for New Hampshire Co-op. According to court records,
Floyd asked the meter reader, "Do I need to kick your ass?"

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Upon further checking, the police learned that Floyd's 1991 drug arrest
in Georgia was a felony level offense. That, the state police concluded,
meant Floyd could not legally own guns in New Hampshire. In June 1997,
the state police added a second charge against Floyd: being a felon in
possession of firearms.

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Sounds like the ideal NRA poster boy for increased concealed carry,
doesn't he? Drug felonies, theivery, violent past, gun collector,
hunter who shoots near other folks' homes...

Tesha