Smuggling weapons into other countries is a great way to ruin your own vacation.
But do it in a tropical island and congresspeople will be tripping over each other to take a ‘fact-finding’ trip down there to help you out.
This is the dumbest take. Most crimes require an element of intent. Using the same bag you use to take shooting or hunting is not intent to smuggle weapons. The quantities of the items found demonstrate no ill intent.
Just because you personally disagree with the 100 million gun owners doesn’t make this a moderate take. Imprisoning people for years because of a loose round in luggage is moronic politically and a waste of tax money.
The casual implication here that a round of ammo in your luggage doesn’t imply you are an unsafe gun owner is insane. Lost rounds don’t just happen, they are a sign that the person didn’t account for all their ammo and secure it properly. There’s no reason to give these people a pass.
I didnt say it wasn’t irresponsible and I didnt say give them a pass. I said don’t give them years in prison for an honest harmless mistake. Maybe ban them from returning? Something less extreme…
They didn’t get years in prison, look up “suspended sentence”.
I understand what words mean, thanks. I’m responding to the hordes of teenagers frothing at the mouth for severe punishment in these cases. There are 5 now.
I wouldn’t call 5 teenagers “hordes,” but you do you.
5 legal cases so far. Hordes of people in this and similar threads trying to hang tourists from the nearest tree because they enjoy guns.
Can’t you see? The dude is fighting for their life. He’s literally spearheading the defense of those poor american. He might also be the one who will change the law of another country. 😄🫡
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Do you realize there are 5 cases already like this? Do you know why? Because this mistake is super common.
Do you realize that means this probably happened dozens of times a year before this recent change took effect? And that all those people in the past returned home with their ammo completely undetected by anyone, including themselves?
You know what something’s called when nobody even notices it happened?
Harmless. Absent of harm.
Do you realize there are 5 cases already like this? Do you know why? Because this mistake is super common.
Maybe it’s common for Americans to be this lax with their weaponry?
I don’t see the citizens of other countries making the same “common” mistake.
Smuggling is always the smugglers fault.
That he’s an irresponsible gun owner too is just the cherry on top.
You keep using that word. It isn’t smuggling, it is forgetting a round of ammo in a bag. Your view on this is extreme. There is nuance in the world…
And this is why drug cartels use cute white women as mules - to skate by on “It’s for personal use” excuses if they get caught.
Also a really fucking stupid take? It should always be based on the facts of the case, not the color of skin or gender. If a cute white woman is carrying guns and hundreds of rounds of ammo punish away.
Why are you so certain that the people in this case weren’t intentionally smuggling ammunition?
Because of the quantity and having a brain.
He packed his own contraband in his own bag and brought it to a foreign country.
That’s the definition of smuggling.
No, it isn’t.
The Oxford dictionary definition:
smuggling noun
the illegal movement of goods into or out of a country. “cocaine smuggling has increased alarmingly”
You see how it says “illegal” there? In smuggling cases there has to be this other thing called “intent” for it to have been illegal.
If a Mexican gets some codeine at a Mexican pharmacy, forgets it in their bag, and flies into the USA we don’t pay tax money to imprison them for years. We take it, ban them, and send them back.
Why? Because they are careless, not smugglers.
Try getting busted entering the US with half a gram of weed stuck in some fold of your bag, and see how they treat you.
Try that in Singapore or Iran.
The only thing that would happen is confiscation and denied entry.
And what is your point? That imprisoning those people for 4 years is good and fair policy and other countries should do it too?
If this happened in the States, they would be imprisoned as well. No country is going to let that shit slide, champ.
You are wrong, that is not true at all. We confiscate the items, sometimes deny entry, and sometimes ban future entry. It happens all the time with pharmaceuticals, produce, and any number of other goods that are legal elsewhere but not here. Spending tax money to imprison people for years over minor cultural differences and misunderstandings is absolutely brain dead policy.
There are already 5 cases like this because this is a super common mistake and T+C recently implemented a change in their policy for handling it.
Bring a little cannabis to Texas and see how they feel about your cultural misunderstanding.
If you’re from elsewhere it will go as I said.
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52 months is 4 1/4 years.
Sounds like a lovely place to visit. Unarmed, naturally.
The article has been updated. It wasn’t 52 months, it was 52 weeks. The person quoted misspoke.
Thank you. I’ll correct the title.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An American tourist who was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this year for possessing ammunition was given a suspended sentence of 52 months on Friday and was expected to be released, a spokesperson posted to social media.
Bryan Hagerich of Pennsylvania was one of several Americans facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in prison on ammunition charges in the British territory.
This is a breaking news story.
Check back for updates.
The original article contains 77 words, the summary contains 76 words. Saved 1%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Bot needs a tune-up.
The article is ~730 words not including heads, not 77 like the bot claims.
It’s been updated since the bot saw it.
I just wanted to know what the one removed word was.
