Former candidate who ran on a platform to repeal some gun laws, arrested with assault rifle, handgun, knife, ski mask and black guy in car
http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-senate-candidate-arrested-assault-weapon-article-1.2530381
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A former New York State Senate candidate has been arrested for illegally possessing an assault weapon.
Twenty-six--year-old Gia Arnold and her boyfriend Halim Johnson, 18, were taken into custody on Wednesday night in Niagara Falls after police found an AR-15 rifle in her car along with a handgun, knife and ski mask.
She was originally pulled over around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday for failing to use her turn signal, but weapons were discovered when an officer saw a magazine clip in her passenger’s seat, according to the Buffalo News.
The front of her Pontiac Vibe was actually locked and loaded with deadly weapons, according to police, who said that she was keeping the AR-15 between her seat and the driver’s door, and the handgun was in a cupholder.
The Tea Party-approved mother of three had previously run for the upper house of New York’s legislature in 2014 in a district along Lake Ontario between Rochester and the Canadian border.
Part of the then-24-year-old’s platform included repealing the assault weapons measure under which she is now being prosecuted, the SAFE Act.