of a store a couple of times. Approximately one-half hour later, the officers walked across the street to the front of the store and noticed the defendant walking toward them. As the defendant approached them, the officers observed that he was carrying a paper bag. While Officer Corbitt testified that he did not observe anything protruding from the bag, Officer Clinton testified that when the defendant was seven or eight feet away from him he observed what at first looked like a pipe sticking out of the bag. Clinton then “observed a hole in it [the object] and a bore.” He stopped the defendant, took the paper bag from him and asked him what was in the bag. When the defendant failed to respond, Clinton opened the bag and found a firearm. The officers arrested the defendant, and in an ) (<HOLDING>). Under these circumstances, we think that the
recognizing innocent possession defense to a charge of criminal weapons possession holding that fair use is an affirmative defense holding that laches is an affirmative defense holding that possession of a license is an affirmative defense to a charge under g l c 269  10a holding that the running of the statute of limitations is an affirmative defense