So? Maybe she's incontinent, too.
What the heck are they guilty of?
I don't blame them...they probably looked around and saw how the government was running the country.......
He should have not lived in NJ if he wanted that kind of collection. Of course that does not let NJ off the hook for being a state that thumbs its nose at the constitution.
I don't know that a crime was committed but I'm not sure I would want an Alzheimer's victim having easy access to weapons.
My grandmother had a neighbor who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He tried to kill his wife when he didn't recognize her.
I'm curious as to why the cops were searching their house in the first place. Does any one know?
My aunt had Alzheimer's disease and when she reached a certain point in her psychosis I wouldn't have wanted her to have access to any guns.
It would have been worse than leaving them for a child to get at.
Really now? I doubt it. Typical ignorant media.
"He's now charged with creating a hazardous situation."
What hazardous situation? Did he booby-trap his collection? Were the guns stored loaded, cocked and UNlocked? Don't the police know how to handle weapons and ammunition?
FReepers, if you have this sort of a collection, it is your civic duty to start passing it on to Constitutionally-minded youngsters when you get up in years, so this fate does not come to it.
I guess the police armory is a "hazardous situation," too. At what point does gun ownership transition from collecting to a "hazardous situation"? Can I own 99 guns and be a collector, but buy one more and be charged with a crime? How did the police ever get a warrant to search if there was no evidence of a crime?
Yep the police have found a very valuble life time collection and will find a way to keep it and profit themselves, just because they can.
"He was a physician and gun enthusiast who was arrested in 1974 and charged with selling submachine guns, grenades and other weapons to two undercover federal agents."
We'll either the laws he broke were minor, or he wasn't convicted, because they aren't charging him with being a felon in posession of firearms.
This article reaks of biased reporting.
"Federal officials plan to begin tracing the weapons to determine whether they were legally obtained and ever used in a crime."
If the Federal Government doesn't have evidence that the guns were obtained illegally or used in a crime, they should never have been allowed to take the guns in the first place.
If this is all the gun hating AP can come up with to make this guy sound bad, it seems that this guy has very good cause for a civil rights lawsuit against the government.
"Both are 82 years old. "
Proof that firearms are essential for longevity!
Remember everyone: The plural of "gun" is "arsenal" when dealing with the media. [/sarcasm]
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Geez, I hope that by the time I'm 82 years old I'll be fortunate enough to have accumulated an assortment of 500 firearms and 100k rds of ammo.
He will save a lot of money by going to a free prison that takes good care of the elderly, instead of a private nursing home which would cost him $5000 a month. If you have alzheimers, or are dibilitated and cant get out anyway, why not go to a place that will take care of you in your old age for free?
Were they holding up liquor stores? Why were they arrested?