Gun Control Activist Arrested on Felony Gun Charges

tpnn.com - Long time, anti-gun, community activist Dwayne Ferguson was arrested at a Buffalo, NY elementary school for carrying a gun on school premises. While Ferguson does possess a permit to carry a gun, that permit does not extend to carrying on a school campus. He faces felony charges for this incident. The Daily Caller reports on the chaos that ensued as police, SWAT teams, and K9 units descended upon the campus of Harvey Austin Elementary last Thursday at 4:15 pm following two 911 calls.

Gun Control Activist Arrested on Felony Gun Charges

by Jennifer Burke

Long time, anti-gun, community activist Dwayne Ferguson was arrested at a Buffalo, NY elementary school for carrying a gun on school premises. While Ferguson does possess a permit to carry a gun, that permit does not extend to carrying on a school campus. He faces felony charges for this incident. The Daily Caller reports on the chaos that ensued as police, SWAT teams, and K9 units descended upon the campus of Harvey Austin Elementary last Thursday at 4:15 pm following two 911 calls.

The school was immediately placed on lockdown. Parts of two streets were closed.
About 60 students who were still on campus participating in after-school activities were funneled to the cafeteria.
Cops searched the school room by room and would not let parents on campus until they were satisfied that no shooting threat existed.
Ferguson, 52, was at Harvey Elementary because he works as a mentor in an after-school program for disadvantaged students.
He said he frequently carries a pistol. He has a license but the license does not matter under the strict state law Ferguson helped pass.
Among much else, the 2013 law, deemed New York's SAFE Act, made it a felony to carry a gun on school property, according to The Buffalo News.
While it was always illegal to carry a gun on school grounds, the new law bumped the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
The community activist has claimed that he forgot he was carrying his gun in a felony gun-free zone he helped create.

While Ferguson had numerous opportunities to inform police officials about the gun that he was carrying, he failed to do so. He now faces two counts of felony charges for criminal gun possession.

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