Big Utah Gun Rights Advocate Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

PERRY STEIN 11:56 AM EDT, THURSDAY MAY 30, 2013

One of the faces of Utah's gun lobby was arrested on domestic violent charges earlier this week.

If Clark Aposhian, chair of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, is convicted, he would be forced to relinquish his arsenal of firearms, his concealed weapons permits and his concealed-carry instructor's license. He may also, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, have to step down from his chairman position.

Aposhian and his attorney say the domestic violence charges are baseless.

The gun rights advocate has been making headlines since the Sandy Hook shooting for leading concealed-weapons permit classes to help arm Utah teachers.

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[onehandle]

1. He drove a 2-ton truck onto his ex-wife's property threatening to kill her husband.

Yeah. This is a guy who should have guns.
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...driving a 2-ton army surplus truck onto his ex-wife’s property, threatening to "run over their cars" and "bury" her husband

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56381575-78/aposhian-arrest-attorney-concealed.html.csp

[freshwest]

25. Another liberty loving freedom fighter who only abides by his own made up laws. Yup, yup.

Adam Kokesh would interview this yahoo on his radio show to demonstrate:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Oh, noes!!?! Don't take my precious guns. Anything but that!

Dipshit.

[Flashmann]

3. forced to relinquish his arsenal of firearms, his concealed weapons permits and his concealed-carry

Aw...I feel so sorry for the poor dumb shit-heel...Wait...No I don't.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Yes, he'll be standing alone and naked, his security blanket gone.

Why am I laughing? This is SERIES!?!?!?!!!!!

[L0oniX]

20. They were supposed to be confiscated when he was arrested.

[billh58]

4. Yep, just the kind

of person that really, really needs to have a gun in every room, and another one in his pants.

[Sheepshank]

5. Self important ass....

....and then has an aggression surge. Guns, the possession of, the use of, the waving of, the wearing of, the exhibition of, the self made authority of.... enable such mental issues for sure.

[Hoyt]

6. Guess he is not like gun cultists claim they behave when armed -- I'm a much nicer person. LMAO

Gun cultists are often attracted to lethal weapons because they are violent people.

Hope he gets what he deserves.

[billh58]

9. Well said!

The means to commit violence increases the potential to commit violence -- especially when the excuse for walking around armed is an unidentified, nebulous, imaginary bogeyman.

[fitman]

7. Love it..karma is a bitch

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

8. Is he a tall man, or just portly?

[The Magistrate]

10. Scratch A Gun Fetishist, Sir, Find A Crimninal

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy lives as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even believe that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

[geek tragedy]

11. Just another law-abiding gun humper. nt

[navarth]

12. In the immortal words of Jim Nabors,,,

[Auntie Bush]

13. His wife is probably lucky to be alive. nt

I'd fear for my life living with a angry, violent man with a temper and a gun.

[siligut]

14. His Facebook post sounds like something Glenn Beck would say

Aposhian declined comment Wednesday but on his Facebook page thanked friends for messages of support. "Under advice of counsel, I cannot say much," he posted, "but if you know me, you know that it would be highly unlikely for me to do anything even remotely akin to what I am being charged with. When this is done and over with I will explain in detail."

Yes, he will explain it all in detail, after his attorney determines the spin.

[frylock]

16. law abiding citizen blah blah blah

[L0oniX]

17. WOW ...in Florida you must relinquish all firearms if you are arrested for domestic violence.

WTF Utah? Get with it!

[AtheistCrusader]

18. That's a federal requirement.

Shitty reporting in action. (Lautenberg Amendment.)

[greiner3]

22. "17. WOW ...in Florida you must relinquish all firearms if you are arrested for domestic violence."

Isn't Utah one of the states that recently passed a law stating that 'anyone upholding a federal law with regards to taking away any second amendment rights can be arrested'?

Anyway, it isn't as though the local FBI office is going to send an agent out to check if this Yahoo still has his guns.

[Swede Atlanta]

19. I believe in "innocent until proven guilty" but......

I suspect this is another small docked mental midget that goes about his business thinking he can mask his smallness under his gun bravado and still beat up women (or whomever he thinks).......I hope UT gives him the limit of the law and he has a chance to think about his crimes.

[Zoeisright]

21. Gee, WHAT a surprise!

NOT.

[adieu]

23. Oops.

There goes your gun rights.

[jwirr]

24. The problem with many of these types is not so much their love of guns but the fact that they

believe violence is and can be the solution to most problem they face.

[freshwest]

26. They are the worst example of life imitating art. In this case, bad movies.