Sure Glad I don't live in NY... don't plan to visit anytime soon either!

[TNMP40]

Ryan Jerome was enjoying his first trip to New York City on business when the former Marine Corps gunner walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he should check his gun.

That was when Jerome’s nightmare began. The security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail.

The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.

Jerome has a valid concealed carry permit in Indiana and visited New York believing that it was legal to bring his firearm. He was traveling with $15,000 worth of jewelry that he planned to sell.

The online gun-law information Jerome read was inaccurate, however, and his late September arrest initiated what may become a protracted criminal saga. He hasn’t yet been indicted by a grand jury, but there may be little legal wiggle-room if he is.

“If he does get indicted, and they want to give him something less, then the legal minimum would be two years,†noted Mark Bederow, Jerome’s attorney. “They couldn’t even offer less if they wanted to.†(RELATED: The Daily Caller’s Guns and Gear section)

Jerome isn’t the first out-of-state visitor to volunteer that they had a gun, only to be put through the wringer. In December, Tennessee nurse Meredith Graves noticed a “no guns†sign at the World Trade Center site and asked where she could leave her weapon, only to face similar charges.

[Guest TresOsos]

My wife gets mad at me when I say things like this but, there is no way in H, E, double L that I would go to NY or New York City.

I would not spend one dime of my hard earned money in that god foresaken place.

[sigmtnman]

Hank said it best. "Just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.."