Teens with AK-47 arrested after entering Mar-a-Lago

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters


“They didn’t try to get into any buildings, they just jumped over the wall and tried to hide”

By REUTERS |
August 5, 2020 at 4:10 p.m.
By Brad Brooks | Reuters

Police in Florida said three teenage boys were arrested after they entered U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with an AK-47 in a backpack.

Palm Beach Police Spokesman Michael Ogrodnick said the three 15-year-old boys jumped a wall at Mar-a-Lago while fleeing a police officer late last Friday.

The officer had approached the boys as they sat in a car a few miles north of the resort. The boys sped off in the car, trying to escape. They abandoned the car near Mar-a-Lago when they saw another police cruiser and escaped onto the grounds of the resort, Ogrodnick said.

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The teens, who were not identified, are being held in a juvenile facility while prosecutors decide if they should be charged as adults. The teens have denied they owned the AK-47, saying they had found it.

Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/05/teens-with-ak-47-arrested-after-entering-mar-a-lago/

[underpants]

1. For that kind of membership fee I'd expect better security

but then Trump is cheap.

[Blue Owl]

2. Were there bullets in the Mag-a-Zino?

n/t

[raccoon]

3. Maybe one of them will be President some day. :sarcasm: nt

[Vinca]

4. I don't see a problem with this. If they can carry an AK-47 at the grocery store, why can't

they visit their lord and savior Donald J. Trump with them slung over their shoulders?

[dware]

7. They are too young to be in possession of a firearm without adult supervision.

They can't legally carry a firearm period.

[Vinca]

13. In gun humper world, that's a mere technicality. After all, they need "their freedoms."

[Nexus2]

5. They should have tried a state legislature...

I hear folks are more accepting of people roaming around those heavily armed.

[dware]

8. They're juveniles,

they can't legally carry any firearm.

[lagomorph777]

11. the exception is that a minor may do so only with the permission of the parent or legal guardian.

https://gun.laws.com/state-gun-laws/florida-gun-laws

"But Daddy said I could!"

[dware]

12. Absolutely correct,

however, I think it's safe to say that these teens didn't have permission from their parent or legal guardian, and, I don't think for one second that these teens "found" an AK-47 just lying on the ground, I think they either stole it from one of their parents, or just plain stole it.

[Chakaconcarne]

6. They'll be offered positions on the cabinet soon..

[BlueIdaho]

10. Open Carry...

What’s the problem? 😉