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Not even up on the specifics of Hayes record but that gun charge looks like some normal round the way shyt to me.
Hayes' prior gun charge was detailed in the GQ article. It was a technicality. He got pulled over for a minor traffic violation. He had his legally attained and properly registered gun on him. So he told the officer this, cuz that's what they advise you to do. But his aunt had left some prescription strength Tylenol in the glove compartment. Since it wasn't his prescription it counts as transporting drugs, and its illegal to transport drugs with a firearm even if the gun was legal and he had a license to carry it.
It is a textbook example of how Black and Brown folks get the book thrown at them in instances where, more than likely, a cracker would have been given the benefit of the doubt. So anyone in here propping that incident up as a knock on Hayes' character deserves to be called a Cac00n.