It's becoming harder and harder to be a good guy with a gun.
A Marine vet named Lloyd Muldrow stopped a madman with a gun in Baltimore who was threatening to kill everyone at a July 4th event. Muldrow didn't even draw his weapon, but as a self-defense instructor, managed to take the man down without it.
Unfortunately, since Baltimore is a Democrat-run city with insane gun laws, the heroic vet was arrested for carrying a gun.
From Western Journal:
"Mr. Muldrow, 57, had just arrived at a July 4 gathering of family and friends at Tequila Sunset in Baltimore when another patron, Wesley Henderson, became upset after seeing his ex-girlfriend dancing with Marshall Cullens, according to the Baltimore state's attorney charging document," the Times reported.
"Mr. Henderson allegedly shoved Mr. Cullens and then brandished a handgun, striking him in the head. He also shouted threats like ‘I'll kill everyone,' Mr. Muldrow said."
"When I got there, I saw him [Cullens] bleeding profusely from his head. It looked like he had a gunshot wound to his forehead," Muldrow told the paper.
"He was bleeding so badly that I couldn't do anything but react. I saw the guy with the pistol in his hand, and I hit the guy and knocked him down. We went to the ground, and I secured the pistol from him."
"I mean, I reacted based on my training," he added. "I spent years training Marines to defuse situations."
The 57-year-old man tackled a crazy guy with a gun who had already pistol whipped someone.
Muldrow should have gotten a medal from the city for his heroic actions. Instead, he was arrested.
However, the problem began when an officer asked where the gun was.
While the gun Henderson allegedly used to attack Cullens had disappeared — Muldrow's attorney said that in the body cam footage, "you hear police say it's a pretty common occurrence in Baltimore that, by the time they get there, the gun has disappeared" — Muldrow told the officer that his firearm, a .22 caliber Beretta M9, was holstered on his hip.
An officer then pulled back his jacket and found the firearm — which Muldrow didn't even have to draw. Under Baltimore's law, it doesn't matter.
This military veteran had a gun on him, which he didn't use, and the police went after HIM even after he stopped a potential massacre.
Here's where it gets muddy, though: Muldrow has a concealed carry permit, but that permit was issued in Virginia. Maryland has no concealed-carry reciprocity, meaning it recognizes no other state's permits. Eleven states recognize Maryland's permits, including Virginia.
However, Maryland's concealed carry laws were likely among those rendered unconstitutional by a landmark Supreme Court decision this summer, New York State Rifle v. Bruen. In that case, the court struck down a New York law that required applicants to show a special need to carry a gun outside the home by a 6-3 margin, finding it violated the Second Amendment.
Maryland is yet another show-cause state, although GOP Gov. Larry Hogan responded to the court's decision by suspending the state's "good and substantial reason" standard for issuing permits.
The law is probably unconstitutional.
And police have discretion on whether or not they bother people with unnecessary gun charges.
But the officers in this case "followed orders" and ended up putting a hero behind bars for no good reason.
"Lloyd gets up and walks out and he's walking around a free man for a while, and you hear a bunch of cops lamenting the fact that their lieutenant has said, ‘find out if that gun is legal,'" Michael Stark, Muldrow's attorney, told the Times.
"And it sucks because the police do have discretion. They don't have to make arrests in every single case."
Indeed, one of the first responders says, on the body cam footage, that "this guy probably saved somebody's life, and he got arrested."
"The [police] reaction was, ‘thank you, because we didn't have to kill nobody and we didn't have to shoot nobody,'" Muldrow told the Times. "The officers, even when they took me to the jailhouse, it was like, ‘please look out for this guy. This guy took care of us.'"
Not only could this end with a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, Muldrow would also lose his concealed-carry permit if he's convicted. That's could put his job at risk; Muldrow is a safety and training manager.
I hope this guy gets to clean out Baltimore authorities in court, even if it has to go all the way to SCOTUS.
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