Posted on 06/16/2018 4:16:21 PM PDT by ak267
Omaha City Council approves a new "second hand dealer" ordinance.
If you sell precious metals to "2nd hand dealers" (pawn, coin shop, recylers or any other type of business):
---14 day hold time.
---Digital photograph of items bought.
---Signature, photograph’s and fingerprints of sellers.
---ID’s will be collected as well.
---Sellers are entered into a third party Leads Online program that puts all liability on business owners.
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This just begs potential problems.
---One good hack and criminals will discover who's dealing/owning precious metals (PM).
---The city could use this as a backdoor way to institute a municipal tax on all PM sales.
---In case of a global financial meltdown, the Federal gov't will have the personal info (database plus credit card records) on who potentially owns PMs which could make confiscation and/or enforcing a potential federal windfall profits tax on PMs, easier.
(Excerpt) Read more at coinhuskers.com ...
Out of control government.
Coinhuskers owner explains why he’s leaving Omaha
Crap, I hope the CA Democrats don’t hear about this. I’m surprised they haven’t done this already.
I’ve done business with this gentleman in the past. Rock-ribbed conservative.
He helped me years ago pick out a pair of silver coins (which were converted into medallions) for a couple’s 25th wedding anniversary.
These types of laws are enhancing my beliefs that the globalists ARE waging a war on private ownership of PMs.
I hope this idea won’t spread....
... But I bet it will.
Coin registry. Gun registry.
Control the serfs.
Our house was burglarized of jewelry (in Virginia) and the many of items were picked up from a pawn shop that was required to hold them for 30 days. The thief had to show id and there is video of him selling it.
This may be a law enforcement system to track stolen items.
Many states have gone to a similar requirement for selling scrap metal.
Because criminals steal a lot of stuff and sell it for scrap.
People will try to take anything they can possibly can.
I use the NextDoor app to keep track of local crime and lost pets.
Some are getting more brazen all the time.
Yes, the metal recycling places in East Tennessee have a 5 day waiting period on copper. There was a problem with stolen copper there for a while.
They take a picture of your vehicle when it’s coming in, they take your picture and your fingerprints.
Chase doesn’t allow you to keep precious metals in their SDBs.
“Chase doesn’t allow you to keep precious metals in their SDBs.”
How do they know?
Doubt they would ever know. I’m guessing Chase had to write that rule comply with some federal regulation.
“to comply”
To my former Omaha bretheron:
If you just so happen to be trolling the local pawnshops in search of a good deal, and come upon a chainsaw and host of expensive electric wood working tools, they belong to my Father. Stolen and pawned by my worthless, meth addicted brother.
Unfortunately nobody employed by these pawnshops noticed the nasty teeth and skin of my meth addicted brother. Nor did they question where a scumbag like him could have acquired such an expensive collection.
I’ve done business with SOL’s (Omaha’s biggest pawn dealer) and if he sold it there it would of been documented on their own records. Reputable pawn shops have a working relationship with the police. They have to, less their reputation get damaged.
As an Omaha officer told me years ago; due to the working relationship cops have with pawn shops, scrappers and coin sellers, junkies often use alternate means such as Craig’s List, private sales, dealers or fences.
The problem are those pawn shops who are either have “fly by night operations”, poor training or just don’t give a damn. They’re the ones who give the pawn shop business a bad name.
Sorry for your loss. Have you filed charges on your brother? Have you filed a police report? The officers in Omaha have good working relationships with the pawn owners.
If it wasn’t sold at a pawn shop, then the case gets cold pretty quick....sorry.
My Dad is gone now. Hoping the same for my scum brother, although I havent seen him since the day we buried my Dad in Council Bluffs.
The police picked my brother up on warrants that day. He was caught in my Dads garage while the rest of the family was at the funeral. My sister had the forethought to call in some favors and have the house watched, knowing he would come around.
There have been problems for years in Omaha with thieves steeling valuables then pawning them. IF the victim finds the pawned item before it is sold, the pawn shop does not need to give it back to the true owner. The victim is forced to buy it from the pawn shop or lose it. Double victimized.
There have been several attempts by the City Council to stop this problem. They have been blocked for some reason.
I once witnessed a transaction that looked VERY suspicious. The pawn shop worker had no problems at all with it. I wonder if any of my guns I have bought from pawn shops were stolen.
We just may be related.....although it was my tools stolen by the idiot brother.
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