JAY, Maine — A Look Brook Circle resident was arrested Friday on a charge of possession of firearms by a felon after police searched his home.
Jay Police Department received information that Scott McAlpine, 48, of Jay, who is prohibited from having firearms, might have them at his residence, said Det. Richard Caton IV.
Armed with a search warrant, police checked his home Friday and found three firearms.
McAlpine was arrested and taken to Franklin County Jail late Friday afternoon.
Jay police and officers from the Maine Warden Service helped with the search, Caton said.
If these darn criminals would just obey gun laws! Oh yeah, criminals don’t obey the law.
Can not wait to see the comments from liberals on this article, see this is not a law abiding gun owner.
Well numb numb…having a building full of trained armed men doesn’t seem to work very well either:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8934293&hpt=hp_t2
Guy manages to get an entire magazine off and injure 3 cops before someone finally puts him down. So much for the good guys guns taking down the bad guy before he can hurt people.
The only reason one of them survived was because he was wearing a vest. Maybe everyone should wear bullet proof vests instead.
You sure did pick the right username for yourself. You exaggerate more than they do.
Pretty weak comment, but, what do you really expect from people like that…? You gotta give him credit for the exaggeration, it aint everyone that can pull that off….
numb numb……??? Wow….
Obviously one of the officers did not follow training protocol as the bad guy somehow got his hands on the officer’s service weapon. Complacency?
There isn’t some Magic Pipeline where “criminals” can get their hands on an endless supply of guns but “law abiding citizens” can’t. Almost all illegally-owned and criminally-used firearms entered society as legal, dealer-purchased firearms. They end up in illegal hands via “secondary markets” (legal and grey-legal private sales), aided by incredibly lax requirements for documentation, storage, transfer, and theft/loss-reporting in most states.
Yet they still seem to get them, so what’s your point?
Not all guns get there by a legal dealer, they are also imported across our borders ever day, not sold by a gun dealer or a legal gun owner.
How’s a poor fella going to protect his home and hearth if he cain’t have a gun? Where does the Second Amendment say a man has to be a good citizen to keep and bear arms? By gorry it just ain’t fair!
And so it begins
Say it ain’t so! A criminal NOT obeying a gun law? Proof just one more law would make all the difference!
Best way to deal with this is to take them away from those that DO obey the law!
Liberal logic at it’s finest!
Actually, this is an example of a gun law working (being able to
“pick up” and “put away” violators before they have a chance to do actual harm), but OK.
Laws only work if they are obeyed. If the law worked he would not have had the firearms in the first place. In this case the law did not work. If it weren’t for someone turning him in he would still be a felon in possession of firearms. I’m willing to bet that this information did not come from a concerned citizen, but rather from someone with a personal problem with Mr. McAlpine, or someone trying to get out of their own leagal troubles.
By that logic, the laws against (for example) murder and theft don’t work, because on any given day some people obviously commit those crimes anyway.
So you figured out that murder is illegal and yet it still happens. So how did the fact that a law preventing felons from possessing firearms keep this guy from possessing a firearm? Excuse me , three firearms?
That is right! Criminals do NOT obey laws thus prisons full of them are everywhere. Those of us who obey the law do not need more of them to tell us what we already know is WRONG!!
It’s not the law(s) that is the problem, it’s the punishment given that is the problem, it’s a slap on the wrist ect… it’s the club med that go to, it’s all the right they have in prison when they took away the person’s rights they murdered, if you take away someone else’s right then you do not deserve all these right either. You have the right to a fair trail, then the right to sit in a cell and die.
Working? A felon in this case had a firearm. If a FELON can get a firearm in direct violation of the law that ALREADY exists then what will more laws do?
What law worked here? someone turned him in for breaking the law, if they would of just looked the other way, this person would still have his guns, and no law would of stopped him from getting them.
Very high five Jay P.D. and the Maine Warden Service! Proof positive that smaller P.D.’s have the clear ability to enforce firearms laws ethically and responsibly. Sadly, that is the opposite of what occurred on the part of the Piscataquis S.O. when they did nothing to execute Judge Kevin Stipham’s Firearms Relinquishment Order to collect all of Steven Lake’s firearms in July, 2010. The result: Amy, Coty and Monica Lake all died on June 13, 2011 directly and solely due to that law enforcement failure.
What about the recent confrontation where the Grand Wizard of the Maine Militia had to call the county sheriff when the local PD had his house surrounded and told him to come out? Certainly that was a close call too and the guy was lucky to survive the incident. Who was to blame? A PD who got the address wrong or a right-wing political extremist with a house full of weapons?
Who’s on first?
I believe itt was the State Police who surrounded the wrong house.
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2012/12/14/news/police-doing-a-late-night-probation-check-get-wrong-address-go-to-home-of-maine-militia-head-instead/
Not a cop groupie, sorry, I best not comment here.
A warrant? What? I thought we quit using those!
Sounds like a criminal, ratted a citizen out to save his own butt..
Sounds like a citizen ratted a criminal out, to save whoever the CRIMINAL was thinking of shooting.
Well now, sounds like a case of justice, always gotta wonder about that ‘received information’ part, tho. “Received information” as in ‘please don’t tell my PO about the bag of weed’ or maybe ‘I’ll tell if you don’t bust me.’ Just this heartfelt inkling that these are not random tips or information from local good citizens… Just saying…
Does it really matter how or from whom they received the tip, considering that they were able to take three guns off the street from someone prohibited from having them? Do you have any sound, intelligent advice for the man that you have previously given to others that own guns legally?
Oh, you again. No pompous speech this week? Ran out of coffee or what? Not going to try to wow everybody with rambling half-pages of the world according to you, and then have some stooge follow that up? Dude, I’m disappointed. “If ya own a gun legally it’s the right way, if not best of luck.
I have plenty of coffee and my opinions are the same. I can tell that you still have the self rightous attitude that leads you to make disgusting comments, you remember the one you made wishing someone would take their life because their opinion differs from yours.
No doubt you’re sure you’re right when you think you’re right.
Being the empty soul that you are, I did not think that you would address your previous comments that I mentioned above.
Let you tell it, pally.
I did not figure you would be man enough to own up to it there chummy.
I’m sure you’re right when you think you’re right. Mmm, hmm, you’re SURE you’re right.
Oh, I am sure that I am right there buddy. Your comments from the previous thread where we traded jabs was definitely a tell tale sign of who and what you are.
That’s what your neck says.
From your last four comments it sounds like you have started your New Year’s celebration early or maybe you have had a little too much coffee.
Let you tell it…
Probably common knowledge in town, but you have to say an “informant” to make it legal…
Could be he got the guns at a gun show, I’m glad we don’t need any laws to have these
convicted felons pass a check. Hell lets get rid of all checks it takes to much time.
Sarcasm intended.
Good point. I’m not against gun ownership (for people who are mentally stable and of good standing) but I cannot understand why a thinking person would be opposed to waiting periods and vetting of the purchaser.
“Scott McAlpine, 48, of Jay, who is prohibited from having firearms,”… What makes ANY lawmaker think words spoken or paper will keep someone from getting access to guns?
All liberal lawmakers think that, remember when n. korea, sent off that rocket, obama sent the leader a stern letter. Oh I bet that scared n korea to death,