New Jersey gun 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 dropped against Pennsylvania guard

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ― A 検察官,検事 in New Jersey has dropped a 重罪 gun 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 against a Pennsylvania 是正s officer, 公式文書,認めるing that officers only learned that the guard had a gun in his car because he was the 犠牲者 of a 酔っ払い運転 衝突,墜落.

Gloucester 郡 検察官,検事 Sean Dalton said Monday that the 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 against Raymond Hughes of carrying a 武器 without a 明言する/公表する 許す was 不適切な.

Hughes had a Pennsylvania carry 許す, but it wasn't 認めるd by New Jersey's strict gun 法律s. He 直面するd a 最小限 of 3 ? years in 刑務所,拘置所 if he was 設立する 有罪の.

Police in Glassboro とじ込み/提出するd the 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s last month. Dalton said the 検察官,検事's office had been reviewing the 事例/患者 but decided to 解任する the 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s instead of 許すing the 事例/患者 to move 今後.

"In this particular 事例/患者, Mr. Hughes was the 犠牲者 of a 罪,犯罪 事前の to any 違反 of New Jersey gun 法律," Dalton said.

Hughes said he and his wife were on their way home from a concert and dinner in 大西洋 City last month when a drunken driver 攻撃する,衝突する their 乗り物. He told police he had a handgun under his seat, and officers 安全な・保証するd his personal 9mm Glock handgun while he went to the hospital, he said. He was 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d days later.

Hughes, 46, was the 最新の to be 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with carrying a 合法的に owned gun into New Jersey, which doesn't 認める carry 許すs from other 明言する/公表するs. Last y ear, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie 容赦d at least six people who 直面するd 類似の 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s.

"I am very happy and very thankful to the 検察官,検事's office," Hughes told The Associated 圧力(をかける) on Monday.

His 弁護士/代理人/検事, Evan Nappen, said the dropped 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s are yet more 証拠 of the need to 改革(する) gun 法律s on the 明言する/公表する and 連邦の levels. He called New Jersey's 法律s "inflexible and draconian."

But Bryan Miller, (n)役員/(a)執行力のある director of 注意するing God's Call, a 約束-based group working to 妨げる gun 暴力/激しさ, said he 疑問s most New Jersey 居住(者)s agree.

He 追加するd: "People should learn from this example to not bring their guns into New Jersey."

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