Did armed Ohioan near Obama's plane really break law?

[The Straight Story]

Did armed Ohioan near Obama's plane really break law?
Man at N.C. airport had permit to carry gun, advocates note

Many gun-rights advocates will concede that telling security officials you want to see the president while wearing a sidearm in the parking lot of an airport recently used by Air Force One is, well, not very smart.

But is it criminal?

Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Athens, Ohio, was arrested in Asheville, N.C., on Sunday for doing that.

Some proponents of the right to carry guns wonder whether the incident wasn't an overreaction by law enforcement. They point to McVey's valid - at the time - concealed-carry permit and North Carolina's open-carry laws and ask what, exactly, he did wrong.

Jeff Garvas, founder and president of Ohioans for Concealed Carry, said the first thing he noticed about the story was how easily he could have been in McVey's shoes.

"I'm a ham-radio operator; the day this story broke, I had a camera in my car," Garvas said. "Looking at everything this guy did, none of it seems illegal."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/29/did-armed-ohioan-really-break-law.html?sid=101

[Deep13]

1. "... parking lot of an airport ..."

Doesn't that make it illegal?

[HereSince1628]

2. Don't police detain people on suspicion all the time?

If he was arrested there would have to be a charge relative to the law, but a detention on suspicioin can last as long as the rules of the jurisdiction allow. Ainit? I think we've got some detainees in Guantanamo who've been their nearing a decade.

[CTyankee]

3. Who knows what this guy was really up to? Maybe he needed his 15 minutes of fame real bad.

I don't want to see anybody's rights unconstitutionally violated but I think some common sense must come into play here. At the very least the guy should be escorted away from Air Force One. Even the merest thought of an outburst of gunfire, and what that could entail, that close to the President or his plane would make me lean towards getting guy off the property pronto...