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Home Searched After Father Posts Picture of Son Holding Assault-Style Rifle

By KSEE News

Credit: Facebook via DAILY MAIL

Ruddy-cheeked Josh Moore smiles out from behind a pair of glasses, proudly holding the gun his father gave him as a present for his upcoming 11th birthday.

March 20, 2013 Updated Mar 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM PDT

Child welfare workers and cops stormed a New Jersey gun advocate's home after an anonymous tipster reported a Facebook photo of the man's smiling, 10-year-old son holding an assault style rifle.

Now Shawn Moore, the dad, is claiming the authorities violated his rights when they threatened to take away his children as they searched his home last Friday night with no warrant.

Moore, 31, said the confrontation stemmed from an anonymous tipster who saw the photo and phoned a New Jersey Department of Youth and Family Services hotline to report the image of the boy holding the gun.

“They had no warrant, no charges, nothing,” the Penns Grove, N.J. tradesman wrote Sunday on the Delaware Open Carry online forum.
Cops demanded the open his gun safe, but he refused.

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