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Convicted Felon Admits To Hidden Sawed Off Shotgun Behind TV
August 5, 2010
A convicted felon is behind bars after admitting to deputies responding to a disturbance at his Cottage Hill home that he had a sawed off shotgun hidden behind a bedroom TV.
Brian Gray Faulkenberry, 39, is being held in the Escambia County Jail on $60,000 bond on three felony counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one felony count of possession of a short barreled shotgun.
Deputies were called to a disturbance between Faulkenberry and a 40-year old female in the 1400 block of Williams Ditch Road early Wednesday morning. When they arrived, Faulkenberry was moving his belongings out of the house and into the driveway.
While moving items of the house, Faulkenberry told deputies that he needed to go back to the master bedroom to retrieve the last of his items. He was escorted to the bedroom by a deputy. Behind the bedroom TV, deputies found a sawed off .20 gauge shotgun, bird shot, a Smith and Wesson .38 special and 17 live rounds of ammunition.
According to Faulkenberry’s arrest report, he has at least five felony convictions on his record, including one for cocaine trafficking.
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11 Responses to “Convicted Felon Admits To Hidden Sawed Off Shotgun Behind TV”
REGARDING:
“But why is it a felony to have a sawed off shotgun in your home—even if you are not a convicted felon.”
Short answer: Congress outlawed them and no court has overturned Congress on the matter.
Longer answer:
The National Firearms Act of 1934 regulated what were considered “gangster weapons including sawed off shotguns. The U.S. Attorney General knew firearms couldn’t be banned outright under the Second Amendment, so he got restrictive regulation in the form of an expensive tax and Federal registration.
Government figures they can do anything under tax powers.
On May 15, 1939 the Supreme Court, declared no conflict between the NFA and the Second Amendment had been established, writing:
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a ’shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length’ at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.
[No evidence had been presented in part because nobody showed up in court for the defendant; Miller had been gunned down.]
Our Supreme Court upheld the earlier rulings in Printz v. United States (1997) “In Miller, we determined that the Second Amendment did not guarantee a citizen’s right to possess a sawed off shotgun because that weapon had not been shown to be “ordinary military equipment” that could “contribute to the common defense.” “
Which was ridiculous since they WERE used by the military and the Second Amendment does not require people join a militia to be armed.
Thus, they ARE illegal because all three Branches of government say so–no matter what the Constitution says.
This comment really has nothing to do with the story…But why is it a felony to have a sawed off shotgun in your home—even if you are not a convicted felon. I mean I can own an AR-15 assault rifle, but not a sawed off shotgun.
Sounds to me like he is wanting to go to prison so Judge let’s accomodate him before he hurts someone.
How many different ways can you say PRISON? That is where Faulkenberry should be. Wake up Judge! Grant his wish to be sent to the big house for a long time.
maybe for people like this we need the three strikes your out, or should I say in law.
Just think, we are actually paying these judges who keep turning guys like this loose
to strike again. WOW!
REGARDING:
“Get some sleep David”
Was I sleep-typing again??? That’s even worse than sleep-walking.
David awake
LOL
Funny Cynical
Maybe he needed the weapons to protect his house from the bad guys.
You k now this is a BAD DUDE!
I don’t understand why he got bail or why for that matter he was out in
the first place.
They should have locked him up and threw away the key on the upteenth
charge they had against him.
He can’t get along with his woman and he can’t stay out of trouble and
he uses guns….. a known felon…..for crying out loud…….what does this
guy have to do….MURDER SOMEONE
HE WANTS TO GO PRISON.
SEND HIM JUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People who continue with the inability to follow the rules after so many convictions to me says I don’t want my freedom. So I say lock them up and put them in a work program.
Get some sleep David
“Do you, a convicted felon, illegally have any weapons?”
“Yep, sure do, even got a sawed off shotgun; that’s another felony all by itself.”
“Thank you for your cooperation, sir.”