Nov 29th 2008 8:00PM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Giants, NFC East, NFL Police Blotter, NFL Fans, NFL Injuries
Even though Plaxico Burress didn’t suffer a life-threatening injury when he inadvertently shot himself in the leg last night, there’s a chance things get worse for the embattled Giants wide receiver before they get better.
First, the good news: it looks like he’ll only miss two weeks as he recovers from the self-inflicted gunshot wound. The bad news: his latest off-field transgression could cost him an insane amount of money, and there’s even the possibility that he ends up in the clink.
(On the upside, he didn’t murder any puppies, so his return to the NFL won’t be met by protests. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.)
Via the ’s Angela Montefinise, Burress (or as she so alliteratively calls him, “gridiron gunslinger” — yikes) could get slapped with a felony for carrying a loaded gun into a night club. Apparently, there are laws against such things. Records show the Giants’ star receiver does not have a permit to carry a weapon in the city, meaning that he had no legal right to do so in the LQ Club in Manhattan, where he allegedly shot himself in the leg. Burress did have a concealed-weapon permit issued to him in Florida, where he has a home, but records show it expired in May. And even if it was still valid, New York does not recognize out-of-state permits. Police investigators are still gathering information, but criminal possession of a loaded weapon is a felony in New York, and it could land you in prison for up to a year.
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