Man Given Half Million Dollar Bail For Owning Too Much Ammo

Police: Man said 30,000 bullets were for target practice

"HAVERHILL — Keni Garcia told police he intended to use the 30,000 bullets they found in his car and home for target practice.
That is hard to believe, the prosecutor at Garcia's arraignment said, because if he were to fire a gun for eight hours a day, it would take weeks for him to use all of it.
Garcia, who allegedly bought thousands of rounds of ammunition and had 10,000 bullets in his car when he was stopped by police Thursday, was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail yesterday.
Attorney Socrates de la Cruz of Lawrence, who represented Garcia, 32, of 12 Freeman St., at his arraignment in Haverhill District Court, said he will appeal the high bail in Superior Court.
Garcia is charged with three counts of possession of a high-capacity firearm, illegal possession of ammunition and illegal storage of a firearm. His case was continued until June 12."

""Where is the crime?" de la Cruz asked. The lawyer said Garcia had lived in New Hampshire for three years before recently moving to Haverhill.
"He bought the guns legally," de la Cruz said. "He never hid the fact that he had them."
Furthermore, de la Cruz said that when Garcia moved to Haverhill, he had a 60-day grace period to obtain a Massachusetts firearms card."

Massachusetts has the strictest unconstitutional gun laws in the country. There used to be (and maybe still are) signs on the highways leading into the state that warn of a mandatory one year prison stretch for unlicensed ownership.

But this outrageous crap is even loopy for the state with such draconian restrictions. .22 caliber ammunition is sold in 500 round boxes and so tens of thousands in posession is quite commonplace, especially now that ammo is in short supply and people are buying as much as they can afford when they find it. There seems to be no reason to lean on this guy because no laws were broken. It appears that they're trying to make some sort of point with this and to leave some sort of impression.