Examiner – by David CodreaWashington State liberty activist Anthony Bosworth was arrested Wednesday outside a federal building for openly carrying a firearm, an announcement on Bosworth’s Facebook page reports. Within hours, he had been released with no criminal charges, his wife informed supporters.
Liberty advocate Kit Lange has fleshed out further details of the arrest on the website for The Patrick Henry Society. The “co-organizer of Arms Expo 2015 was arrested this morning outside the federal courthouse in Spokane as he attended a states’ rights rally with his family,” Lange reports.
Bosworth was arrested in front of his wife and children by agents for the Department of Homeland Security, who “claimed that Bosworth was in violation of federal law by open carrying a firearm on federal property.” That’s in spite of the reported fact that “The sign on the building states that firearms are not allowed inside the building, but makes no mention of the outside grounds, where Bosworth was standing.”
A video of the incident in front of the Thomas S. Foley United States Courthouse, embedded above, shows a rifle-carrying Bosworth being approached and then surrounded by at least six DHS officers, one of whom tells him his actions are ‘against federal law,” citing “18 U.S. C. 930” and further informing him “it’s illegal… on federal property.” That does not appear to be the case, as a review ofthat code section specifies it applies to “whoever knowingly possesses or causes to be present a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a Federal facility…” and “in a Federal court facility…”
With the potential punishment for a court violation being up to two years imprisonment and a lifetime firearms disability, the difference between “in” and “on” is important. That’s why the further code definition, “The term ‘Federal court facility’ means the courtroom, judges’ chambers, witness rooms, jury deliberation rooms, attorney conference rooms, prisoner holding cells, offices of the court clerks, the United States attorney, and the United States marshal, probation and parole offices, and adjoining corridors of any court of the United States,” becomes critical to Bosworth’s defense.
“If you want to leave, step onto public property,” one of the agents told Bosworth’s wife Maria as she video recorded the arrest. Evidently the understanding of the term “public property” is as murky as the grasp of U.S. Code.
This story will be updated if further relevant information becomes available. As it was being written, no charges had been reported filed and the Spokane County Sheriff was in contact with federal authorities. As it was being prepared for publication, word was posted by Maria Boswell on Facebook that “Spokane sheriff supported us…no charges made….only citation!!” Per a phone call from Sam Wilson, the media contact for the Washington activists, the citation charges Bosworth with “Failure to comply.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/federal-agents-catch-and-release-open-carry-activist-washington
“Bosworth was arrested in front of his wife and children by agents for the Department of Homeland Security, who “claimed that Bosworth was in violation of federal law by open carrying a firearm on federal property.”
INFRINGEMENT!
That federal ‘law’ is in DIRECT VIOLATION of the 2nd amendment.
The fed courthouse, the dhs and that fukkin jew Bloomberg are all INFRINGMENTS. And yes, I think a human can embody an infringement. But then calling Bloomberg a human is seriously stretching the definition.
You keep using the fukk in your comments. Are you trying to spit in my face? You scramble the word or get off this site.
No Failure to Comply
Where did he fail to comply , he was stationary and was held against his will that is kidnapping
Mark