House arrest for ‘stupid mistake’ with unlicensed handgun in the bush – Vernon News

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A Lumby man will provide a conditional sentence of property arrest for a “stupid oversight” in the bush.

Brydon Cole Grace was located guilty of managing a firearm in a careless manner and possessing a restricted firearm without having a licence following staying caught by a conservation officer with a loaded handgun at Bardolph Lake, close to Vernon, in December 2019.

In a BC Supreme Court docket judgment issued March 10 in Vernon by Madam Justice Jasmin Ahmad, Grace was sentenced to 90 times on all those counts and two yrs significantly less a day for possessing a loaded restricted firearm opposite to the Legal Code.

The sentences are to be served concurrently.

On Dec. 5, 2019, Conservation Officer Tanner Beck witnessed Grace beside a parked all terrain vehicle and after mountaineering all over the lake to get to him noticed an open up backpack with the butt-stop of a .40 calibre semi-automated pistol sticking out.

The magazine was inserted in the gun and contained 9 rounds.

In addition, the officer identified a box of undischarged ammunition in the backpack and two spent shell casings on the floor.

The judge noted Grace was co-operative throughout his arrest and had no prior criminal record.

He explained that he experienced the gun for protection in the backcountry.

Ahmad stated she is contented “there is no evidence that Mr. Grace was involved in a criminal way of living of any mother nature.

“I accept that his perform in acquiring the gun was out of character and represented a single incident of quite poor judgment. As Mr. Grace described to the officer, it was a ‘stupid slip-up.'”

The judge identified Grace did not pose the identical threat to the community as a person with a loaded gun in an urban spot, and that although he did just take the subject to demo, Grace under no circumstances denied his conduct.

“He was co-operative and forthcoming with the officer on the day of the arrest, conveniently admitted that he did not have a licence to individual the firearm, and candidly answered the officer’s issues.”

He has also been nicely behaved although on bail.

“I am pleased that there is nominal chance that Mr. Grace will reoffend,” Ahmad wrote.

Grace, 26, can only depart the Lumby household he shares with his mom, two siblings, and grandmother, for function, clinical or grocery shopping purposes.

He ought to also abide by a curfew, entire 100 hours of group operate, and is prohibited from proudly owning any weapons.

“Mr. Grace, it is clear to me that these offences are out of character for you. I hope that you will use the time you have to full your higher faculty education as you have indicated is your intention. I desire you the ideal,” the decide mentioned.