General Rittenhouse trial

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Filthy

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I haven't looked into the specifics, but in some states a minor can possess a firearm as long as they a valid hunting license. Wisconsin, being the whitetail deer Mecca, probably has some such exemption.
there's another section of law which says that the "under 18 dangerous weapon forbidden" statute only applies to shotguns and SBRs.

the "clear and plain" reading of the law and the legislative notes from from when the law was passed in 1991 make it clear that kids walking around with semi-auto rifles are not illegally carrying.

The law was written to target black poor kids, but it affected rich white kids, so they adjusted it.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Remember when @Cody kept telling us this case would be thrown out before it even made it to the jury?

… Now here we are on day two.
 

Filthy

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my grandpa and this guy taught me how to hunt whitetails

 
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Filthy

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Remember when @Cody kept telling us this case would be thrown out before it even made it to the jury?

… Now here we are on day two.
the DA tried to get it thrown out, and there's no way any conviction stands up on appeal. Binger withheld evidence and tainted the jury. The judge didn't grant him the easy out of a mistrial, but the case is sunk.
 

sparkuri

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Woah.

Did I just read that the judge dismissed the firearm possession due to some hunting exemption?

Wtf

It would seem like you couldn't use that unless you were hunting.

So unless the kid was hunting I would have told the defense to fuck off on that one.

FFS
No.

It was because the law applied to short guns not long guns.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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there's another section of law which says that the "under 18 dangerous weapon forbidden" statute only applies to shotguns and SBRs.

the "clear and plain" reading of the law and the legislative notes from from when the law was passed in 1991 make it clear that kids walking around with semi-auto rifles are not illegally carrying.

The law was written to target black poor kids, but it affected rich white kids, so they adjusted it.
Poor people hunt in Wisconsin too. It's the Whitetail capital of the world.
 

Filthy

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Poor people hunt in Wisconsin too. It's the Whitetail capital of the world.
Iowa is the whitetail capital of the world.

it was written to target poor black kids with open-carry weapons, but it ran afoul of affluent white kids in town who hunt.
so they amended the statute to say that it only applied to SBR and SBS/AOW.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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by volume, not by record or quality. They have more that qualify, which tells you how much WI hunters suck that so many deer live long enough to make B&C.
Conservation is the cornerstone of being a good hunter.
 

Filthy

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no, it can fund conservation.

but the presence of trophy animals in abundance is an indicator of failed herd management. Genetic Diversity is the most important trait, and if you have one animal fathering dozens of generations, you lose genetic diversity.

There's a reason "legendary" animals are "legendary". They're not good for Natural Selection.