Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings
Simply holding an air soft pellet gun can lead to a five-year prison sentence in New Jersey. Actor and commedian Carlo Bellario discovered this the hard way when he was arrested for using such a gun as a prop in a movie scene.
“Now because of that I’m looking at five years because it’s a second-degree crime,” Bellario told TV station PIX 11.
Bellario spent four days in the Middlesex County jail after police arrested him at a movie location. His “crime” was pretending to fire a pellet gun and waving it around in a chase scene for a low-budget movie called Vendetta Games. Bystanders mistook the car chase for the real thing and called police, who arrested Bellario.
Under a New Jersey law called the Graves Act, it is a second-degree felony to possess any weapon, even a BB or pellet gun, without a special permit, attorney Tim Farrow told PIX 11.
“The producer didn’t have a permit to film,” Bellario said. “Didn’t have a permit for that gun which turned out to be a [pellet] gun.”
He later wrote, “We filmed the scene in a residential area of Woodbridge, and as soon as we returned from shooting the scene, the set was surrounded by police cars. … When the police arrived we attempted to explain to them that this is a movie shoot, and that the gun was a prop. … I was the only one arrested that day for possession of a handgun, and now face up to 5 years of prison.”
Bellario is hardly the first law-abiding citizen to run afoul of the Garden State’s draconian gun control regime. In November 2014, Gordon van Gilder, a 72-year-old retired school teacher, faced a similar sentence for carrying an unloaded 250-year-old antique pistol in his car. Chargers were later dropped.
In 2013, single mom Shaneen Allen spent 40 days in jail in Atlantic City because she had a pistol in her car. Allen actually had a concealed weapon license for the weapon from neighboring Pennsylvania. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pardoned her.
Why would anyone choose to live under a draconian state like New Jersey? The last time I worked there the eastern side of the state was chock full of minorities, the infrastructure had more than fallen apart, all the houses and homes were in total decay and the people walked around like zombies. God help us if their form of governance spreads to the rest of the country. I’ll take back the first sentence because I met some real nice older folks who told me that they had become so poor as their neighborhoods had been destroyed that they could no longer afford to move out of the state. So they lived boarded up with burglar bars and CCTV cameras, shaking with fear.
sounds like sh#tcago
“I was the only one arrested that day for possession of a handgun, and now face up to 5 years of prison.”
‘Merika!