Posted on 04/17/2018 10:48:38 AM PDT by PROCON
Yep perfectly legal and may I say a small collection if he lived in say ....Texas.
All those polidiot popo POS desk jockeys getting they’re picture taken as if they had just captured a terrorist ....... doom on em.
In Texas or Arizona we would call that an okay gun collection.
I believe Mr. Heston’s collection
was auctioned and offered to other
collectors. SNOPES has claimed
this vault as not belonging to
Carlton, but to an attorney named
Bruce E Stern. I remember seeing
a documentary where Charlton
invited the film crew to see his
collection in his basement.
You are correct in that the seized
weapons will not be destroyed.
The following are simply opinions (I am NOT a lawyer). First, I'm not sure if anyone can tell (based only on these photos) if anything pictured is "illegal" - for instance, any of the firearms depicted might actually be a non-firing replica. Second, the short barreled AR you mention has a buttstock, which I beleve makes it a rifle under federal laws/regs, rather than a pistol. Finally, state laws vary immensely, and other factors (the owner's legal status as a convicted felon or LEO, for example) might determine the legality of possessing anything shown in the photos...
bgill wrote:
What was illegal about it?
My thoughts, as well.
In NYC all semiauto rifles are illegal - They have been so since the reign of king Dinkins. And yes the NYPD confiscated a number that were legally registered (in 1976 with the promise that the registration lists would never be used for confiscation)
Thanks for the update.
"...In NYC all semiauto rifles are illegal..."
That's all they got?
http://www.queensda.org/newpressreleases/2018/APR_2018/draman_04_16_2018_cmp.pdf
Rifles aren’t guns gangs buy. They like pistols that can be concealed easily, especially high cap semiautomatic pistols.
That's all they got?
No sh*t, from the document:
The defendant now faces a lengthy term of incarceration for this obsession with weapons.
So his 'obsession' with weapons was criminal too?
Paper crime.
I notice none of the school board, or law enforcement personnel in Broward County, Florida have been arrested for violating federal gun laws resulting in 17 student deaths.
Gangs often use rifles for drive-bys.
We shall see.
This is what $40-50,000 or more worth of weapons which only the rich have lying around to invest in guns.
A freeper posted a month or more ago and explained how one thought on the 2nd Amendment was that the purpose of a “well-regulated Milita” was to provide a check against a large federal army. Prior to Lexington/Concord the British had taken powder from a town. That town and county quickly dissolved their British militia and replaced it with a state militia (with all of the former members just reinstated!) But - they trained weekly, men too poor to have weapons or munitions were provided it, and they were ORGANIZED. (The minutemen were created at this time - just 6 months or so before Lexington/Concord).
Below is a wiki excerpt that corresponds to that freeper’s thoughts on it. Of course without a local, well organized militia, we are all just separate citizens. And when our guns and ammo are taken away, we become nutcases with an “arsenal”. Or we are a felon that broke some arbitrary law with a shotgun barrel an inch too short. (Or in some states, did not have a gun registered, or not in a safe, or with a bipod, or....) And no - I don’t believe that the state’s National Guard come close to being a militia.
Wiki Excerpt:
While both James Monroe and John Adams supported the Constitution being ratified, its most influential framer was James Madison. In Federalist No. 46, Madison wrote how a federal army could be kept in check by state militias, “a standing army ... would be opposed [by] a militia.” He argued that state militias “would be able to repel the danger” of a federal army, “It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops.” He confidently contrasted the federal government of the United States to the European kingdoms, which he contemptuously described as “afraid to trust the people with arms.” He assured his fellow citizens that they need never fear their government because “besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition”.
Good for you Richard! Those guns might have risen up, marched up the basement stars, through the house, out into the street and started shooting innocent, unarmed civilians.
Thank you so much for neutralizing this vicious threat to the neighborhood.
By the way, is owning ammo illegal in NYC? If not, why was it seized?
Exactly. As a homeowner, family man, wage-earner, etc., you have something to lose. Any who dare shows resistance, will be arrested, sued, fired, etc., one at at time, and alone.
That’s a day at the range around here.
Cold dead hands comes to mind.
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