College Student Arrested, Expelled For Legal Rifle Purchase

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Posted May 3, 2018 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

One of many things that separates the United States from other countries is the right to keep and bear arms. For foreigners who reside here, it’s an opportunity to check out things like guns for the first time. After all, they actually can.

In Virginia, a Chinese student attending class at Virginia Tech was one of those. He began looking into what was required for him to own a gun in the United States.

Unfortunately, authorities there in Virginia weren’t impressed. This past February, the student was arrested.

A former Virginia Tech student charged with possessing an assault weapon may have been improperly questioned in jail, his attorney said in a court filing this week.

Yunsong Zhao, a 19-year-old from China who was a freshman at Virginia Tech until his arrest last month, has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday in Montgomery County General District Court on a charge of being a foreign national illegally in possession of an assault weapon. The class 6 felony carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.

Zhao was the focus of a wave of media reports and online commentary after his Jan. 29 arrest, with reports that he’d tried to buy thousands of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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