With a grand jury apparently considering the Gilbert Arenas gun case as soon as Tuesday, the Washington Wizards player and his lawyer Kenneth Wainstein are likely sweating bullets, so to speak, over what comes next. The basketball star has acknowledged bringing four unloaded handguns from his home in Virginia to the team locker room in downtown Washington last month, which under D.C. law could expose him to both felony and misdemeanor charges.
No matter what happens, though, the case already is raising some interesting legal issues. For one thing, as Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, an ardent gun rights advocate, put it today, “Everything Gilbert Arenas did in D.C. would be hunky dory in Virginia. On one side of the bridge over the Potomac, he’s a law abiding citizen, but step into in D.C. and you can be viewed as a dangerous criminal.”
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