Last year, nearly 33 million people in the United States rode the rails on Amtrak trains. But not one of those travelers got busted with a zebra-print bag full of guns. That is, until now. New Jersey authorities indicted a Florida man after he tried to board a Virginia-bound train with multiple loaded firearms.
Police in New Jersey busted a Florida man for trying to travel with a bag full of guns and ammunition
34-year-old Jeffrey O. Kennerk bought a ticket on a Virginia-bound Amtrak train . He had multiple suitcases with him, including a black-and-white, zebra-patterned bag. Kennerk set the bag down and left it unattended at New Jersey’s Penn Station. The unattended bag caused alarm among the station’s authorities.
After a K-9 unit cleared the bag of explosives, police inspected its contents. It held a 9mm Girsan Regard MC handgun with a loaded 18-round magazine, a Zastava AK-platform rifle, and ammo for the lot. In another of Kennerk’s bags, the Florida man had an AR-platform rifle and another rifle chambered in .300 AAC Blackout, a common caliber for suppressed rifle applications. At the mention of suppressed weapons, Kennerk’s bags also contained four suppressors and other equipment.
Worse yet, the AG’s office says that a police officer discharged the AR-style rifle while attempting to render it safe. However, the office asserts that the rifle was “allegedly booby-trapped,” and that the shot wasn’t negligence on the officer’s part…