Showing posts with label Shaneen Allen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shaneen Allen. Show all posts

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Gun worse than beating fiancé in NJ?

September 25, 2014 Concealed Carry Permit , Gun Ownership 0 Comments
Single Mom Faces No Jail Time For Mistakenly Bringing Gun To NJ

Shaneen Allen / www.townhall.com
By Matt Vespa, Sept. 24, 2014, Townhall.com

It appears that Shaneen Allen will be avoiding prison time after she was charged with bringing her legal firearm into New Jersey. Allen, a Pennsylvania resident and mother of two, bought a handgun and obtained a concealed carry permit after being robbed twice; she doesn’t have a criminal record. The problem is that New Jersey does not have a reciprocity agreement with Pennsylvania regarding concealed carry permits.

As Katie wrote in a previous post, she accidentally brought her firearm into New Jersey, where she willingly informed a police officer, who had pulled her over for a traffic violation, that she was carrying her handgun. As a result, she faced up to ten-years in prison.

Well, not anymore (via Press Of Atlantic City):
A Philadelphia mother facing prison time for bringing her legally registered gun into New Jersey will be allowed into a diversion program, after the attorney general clarified a directive that had expanded New Jersey's gun law. 
Shaneen Allen was arrested last year after a motor vehicle stop on the Atlantic City Expressway in Hamilton Township. She told the state trooper that she had her loaded gun and a concealed carry permit with her.
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Piers Morgan would be delighted

August 02, 2014 2nd Amendment , Bruce Shipkowsky 0 Comments
Philly Mom Faces Jail Due To New Jersey's Strict Gun Laws

Shaneen Allen, 27, was pulled over in Atlantic County
 on traffic charges, but ended up arrested on weapons 
charges that could send her to prison for three years. 
Courtesy: Evan Nappen

By Bruce Shipkowsky, Aug. 2, 2014, Philly.com

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- When Shaneen Allen was pulled over in New Jersey last year, the Philadelphia woman assumed it would be a routine traffic stop.

But instead of getting a traffic ticket, the single mother of two young children was arrested on weapons charges that could send her to prison for three years.

The charges came after Allen told the officer she had a handgun in her vehicle and has a concealed carry permit issued by Pennsylvania. But that license carries no legal weight in New Jersey, which has some of the nation's strictest gun control laws.

Allen's case and others like it have highlighted the legal problems often faced by out-of-state residents who bring weapons to New Jersey, unaware of the rules that govern how guns can be brought into and transported throughout the state.

New Jersey requires that guns be carried unloaded and contained in a closed and fastened case, gun box or securely tied package or locked in the trunk. The state also imposes strict limits on how and where weapons can be transported, and it doesn't recognize carry permits issued by other states.

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