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Jon Hammar has been jailed since August after crossing into Mexico with a shotgun.
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"The mother of a former U.S. Marine jailed in a notoriously violent corner of northern Mexico said Monday that her son was losing hope after being arrested in August for possessing a shotgun that was a family heirloom."
"Jon Hammar, 27, was heading to Costa Rica to go surfing when he crossed into Matamoros, Mexico ..."
"He had registered the shotgun with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on the U.S. side of the border, declaring he planned to take it with him into Mexico."
"Despite being told that the shotgun — ... that once belonged to his great-grandfather — posed no problem, Hammar was arrested as soon as he crossed into Mexico. The arrest came when he tried to register the gun with Mexican customs officials ..." ... |
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Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people. — Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788. |
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