![]() ![]() To add insult to injury, they got charged with Criminal Possession of a Weapon in Second Degree, a class C violent felony that has a 3.5 year jail minimum and a 15 year maximum! Even those who placed the gun in a “lock box,” put the ammunition in a separate “lock box” and placed both on the ticket counter got arrested. As a result thereof, they brought their guns into New York City, but got arrested at the airport while attempting to fly home. I’ve represented numerous people with gun licenses from other states that spoke to airline representatives and/or police officers and received incorrect advice. Possessing a license to carry a gun in another state does not give you permission to bring that gun into the State of New York.ĭo not rely on the airlines or the NYPD for accurate translations of New York’s weapon statutes (codified in Penal Law section 265). Every single day, gun owners that live in other states get arrested at JFK or LaGuardia when they try to fly home with their weapon of choice. Since the two major New York City airports are in Queens County, all of the “airport gun cases” come through the Queens County Criminal Court on Queens Blvd. ![]()
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