Liberal Forum

How does it benefit society to prosecute this man? http://www.washingto.../#ixzz2K81v5Iw3 Former Army Staff Sgt. Nathan Haddad was arrested in LeRay, Ny. earlier this year for possessing five 30-round magazines, which are perfectly legal nearly everywhere else in the country. New York passed a law in 1994 prohibiting magazines over 10 rounds. For this, the veteran of the war in Iraq, who devotes his free timeto supporting other veterans, was thrown in jail and charged with five felonies and faces a maximum of seven years in state prison. If he is convicted of even one felony, he will lose his Second Amendment right for life. “He’s not proclaiming innocence,” Sgt. Haddad’s brother Michael said in a phone interview. “He thought he had something that was legal and it turned out that they weren’t.” On Jan. 6, the Jefferson County police coincidentally turned up at the same place and time as a meeting between Sgt. Haddad, now a civilian employee at Fort Drum, to sell the AR-15 type rifle magazines. He did not have the AR15 rifle with him, so there was no threat of violence. The soldier was asked what he was doing. Believing he was not committing a crime, Sgt. Haddad told the police officer what he was selling. The police looked at the bottom of the magazines to see if date stamp, and then arrested Sgt. Haddad because the items were made after 1994.