PA Bill Number: HB1472
Title: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contributions ...
Description: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contrib ...
Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Interview: 52 Days in Honduran jail for Americans on bogus gun charges :: 08/16/2014
Guns.com first reported on the plight of six American salvage workers in June who were arrested on gun charges following a boarding of their U.S.-flagged vessel by the Honduran Navy. The men, who had gone to a remote part of the country on a prearranged project to improve the plight of Miskito Indian fisherman and divers, found themselves mired in a legal standoff with a local judge and prosecutor over the guns that wound up with them. They were imprisoned and their boat seized.
We remained with the story of these men, the "Aqua Quest Six" after the name of their ship, as it evolved and they continued to maintain their innocence through nearly two months in prison.
Now freed from jail after a unanimous decision by a Honduran appeals court, the men are back in the states and their captain, Robert Mayne, Jr, talked to us Friday about their Central American odyssey.
QandA
Chris Eger: Welcome back from your extended stay in Honduras. First off, let's talk about carrying guns on the high seas.
Robert H. Mayne Jr: Five guns for the six crew members on board. I've done this many times in many countries. In Mexico, in the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas. The protocol set up under the United National Convention on the Law of the Sea is always the same. The Port Captain is the only one authorized to come on board the vessel until you are cleared into the country.
We are like a small piece of America, not much different legally from that of a U.S. embassy if you will. When the Port Captain arrives aboard, one of the questions they always ask is if there are guns and they either seal them in our gun locker or collects them and gives us a receipt.
Chris Eger: Have you had any run-ins in the past with modern day pirates or hijackers that let you to carry guns on the boat?
