Felony charges against a 72-year-old retired schoolteacher in New Jersey arrested by police in November 2014 for possessing an unloaded antique flintlock pistol in his car have been dismissed by the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, according to a press release issued this week. Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said the state will exercise “prosecutorial discretion to dismiss” the second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon charge against Gordon N. Van Gilder, a resident of Millville.
The press release came in reaction to intense public reaction as Van Gilder’s story went viral on gun blogs and other pro-Second Amendment news services in recent weeks, including NRA …read more
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