John Morales, the actor who played the crime-fighting cartoon character McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a 2011 arrest in which police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher – and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.

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    3 days ago

    Hol’ up, it says a grenade launcher, which is actually legal to own, it doesn’t say he had illegal HE grenades. Important distinction.

    The problem is “weed” and even if legal “weed+guns” wasn’t until 2023 (and even still kinda a grey area but basically illegal).

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        3 days ago

        Yes, but unless I missed it, not for having “grenades.”

        It also just so happens that at the time of his conviction (well kinda sorta still, actually) it was illegal to have weed and guns at the same time. That and anywhere weed is legal even now, 1,000 plants is well above the commonly single digit limit on plants unless he has a commercial growers permit of some sort (but then, he could probably still have the guns/launcher actually).

        police seized:

        1,000 marijuana plants,

        The illegal part

        27 weapons – including a grenade launcher –

        All legal if no weed

        and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home

        Also legal, and no grenades mentioned.

        Free my man he didn’t do shit.

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          Yes, but unless I missed it

          You almost certainly did.

          It also just so happens that at the time of his conviction (well kinda sorta still, actually) it was illegal to have weed and guns at the same time.

          That too, certainly. Probably could have been convicted of more if the DA and the Judge had been extra sadistic.

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            3 days ago

            Check again. Find me anything anywhere that says he has high explosive rounds for the launcher. I’ll wait, because you can’t, because he didn’t.