(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-cvr-121210-boehner-obama-5a.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)Carolyn Kaster / AP filePresident Barack Obama, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, as he hosted a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) View more videos at: http://nbcmiami.com (http://nbcmiami.com/?__source=embedCode).By NBC News staff and wire servicesThe parents of a former U.S. Marine jailed in a violent corner of northern Mexico said Monday that her son was losing hope after being arrested in August for possessing a shotgun that was a family heirloom.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121210-JonHammar-vsmall.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)Handout / Reuters fileJon Hammar, a former U.S. Marine jailed in northern Mexico is pictured here in an undated photograph provided by his family. Hammar was driving to Costa Rica on a surfing expedition when he was arrested for "possession of a deadly weapon" because of the length of the barrel of his shotgun, his parents say.“I don't know what to do to get him out before he gets killed,” father Jon Hammar Sr. told NBC Miami (http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Palmetto-Bay-Family-Hoping-To-Get-Marine-Veteran-Son-out-of-Mexican-Prison-Home-Safe-182629291.html).
Jon Hammar Jr., 27, was heading to Costa Rica to go surfing when he crossed into Matamoros, Mexico, from Brownsville, Texas, in a beat-up old Winnebago motor home he and a friend bought especially for the trip. With him was a family heirloom -- a shotgun.
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