msinc
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quote: Originally posted by ringtail
I think you meant state law. LLEOs don't enforce CFRs. They can enforce state law on federal property if it is concurrent jurisdiction. If is exclusive jurisdiction they can't.
Never say "never"...our local game wardens, the "Natural Resources Police" are state employees. They write federal citations for migratory bird violations all the time. I have lived on the Chesapeake bay all my life except two years of it and have yet to see a "federal game warden". I know they are out there and exist somewhere, but I haven't had the pleasure of meeting any so far.
Those tickets that the state guys write are definitely federal. I know this for two reasons...one was that if I had ever got one and was found guilty the first thing they do is revoke any federal security clearance you have. There was a time when I couldn't afford to loose my top secret clearance. The other thing about it that is strange is that the cases are federal, but they are tried in a local court by a local judge. I am friends with one of the judges that hears the cases all the time. Not sure why it is done this way, but if you get a federal ticket for a game law violation you don't go to the federal court house. The one thing I don't know is where the fine money goes.
Get caught by a local deputy with a full auto weapon and see if you don't get locked up...you will end up in the federal court house, but that deputy is not going to let you go, he will "enforce" the "CFR", even if it's just long enough to turn you over to the feds.
Edit: On another note...I don't know what they do where the rest of you guys live, but at least twice a year some idiot here decides that the way to handle trespassers is to take an automatic 22 and empty the magazine over their head. Just happened a few weeks back...it always ends the same way. The police show up in force, body slam the moron with the 22 and he gets a backseat ride to the local jail. I don't know what the law is called that they are breaking, but I know it always ends the same way. It must be some kind of felony to do that. It ends better for the trespasser than the landowner. Apparently "I just wanted to scare 'em" is not a good defense in this case.
Last edited by msinc on 01-11-2017 at 12:18 PM
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