West Palm Beach police return rare rifle (Buy back Program Ooops)

Palm Beach Post ^ | 7-15-2005 | Dan Jordan

[Cagey]

Arisaka Type 99 pressure test rifle

[stevio]

No fool like an old fool.

[mnehring]

$5,000 sounds like a low estimate for a Arisaka Type 99, especially if it still has the right markings (most were defaced after the war.)

[RadioAstronomer]

adding that returning it would defeat the purpose of the program, which was to get guns off the street.

Idiots.

[liberty2004]

Either way, police will not return the gun to Filippelli, said Reed, adding that returning it would defeat the purpose of the program, which was to get guns off the street.

It is unbelievable how utterly arrogant and closed minded these stupid cops are. They have the exact mindset of the NAZIs that sent people off to the gas chambers and then sit down to dinner with their family. This stupid cop is incapable of seeing the folly of his actions. This stupid cop is a total robot. He would follow rules no matter what. It is actions like these that rightfully give cops a bad reputation. It borders on insane. This poor guy deserves his rifle back. It is because of this seemingly prevalent mindset among LAE that I have very little respect for them. Cops like this are the enemy of true Liberty.

[Cagey]

I took a look over at Gunbroker.com and found a standard Ariska, but the markings have been defaced.


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=34663805

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Lucky man. Where I live, the police would have reported that it was "lost" and then some years later, it would turn up in some retired cop's private collection.

[DManA]

What a crazy article. In the first sentence they say it was returned, then the rest of the story is about how the refuse to return it. Which is it?

[DManA]

Never mind. I see it's two articles.

[Cagey]

Correction. That rifle still has it's markings.

[stinkerpot65]

Police are thugs.

[Bringbackthedraft]

A buddy of mine "turned in" a pearl handled, engraved, silverplated (or nickle silver)A1 condition Luger that he picked up on the battle field at Chosin. You should have seen the excitement at the Precinct. (As he related to me.) Some people........... I wonder where it is now? Melted? Yeah right.

[elli1]

...now lies alongside 450 other submitted shotguns, handguns and assault rifles...

I guess all rifles are now assault rifles.

That aside, I wonder how many rusted-up, obsolete pieces of junk got turned in for the $75 gift card from Target?

[pabianice]

Police still need to determine if it is authentic and then donate it to an interested museum or destroy it with the others in the near future, said West Palm Beach police Lt. Chuck Reed, adding that a museum has contacted the department in reference to the gun. Either way, police will not return the gun to Filippelli, said Reed, adding that returning it would defeat the purpose of the program, which was to get guns off the street.

Absolutely. Can't have a 79-year-old WWII vet suddenly going crazy and murdering 20 people with this valuable antique.

I am compiling a list of stupid and evil police chiefs. Please contribute other examples. Thanks.

[hinckley buzzard]

Either way, police will not return the gun to Filippelli, said Reed, adding that returning it would defeat the purpose of the program, which was to get guns off the street

Glad someone with an adult IQ intervened, but I would still worry a lot about a force where a braindead vegetable can become a "Lt.," like "Lt. Jack Reed," who apparently is still allowed out by himself, not to mention actually carrying dangerous weapons.

[Ditto]

Where I live, the police would have reported that it was "lost" and then some years later, it would turn up in some retired cop's private collection.

Would have happend there too if the photo of it and the guy had not been in the paper. Most of the guns turned in at thses things are inoperable junk. The few that are actually worth something never head the the melting pot, they go to the cops who sell them.

[Ditto]

Check out this article

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Former police sergeant to plead guilty

By Karen Zapf TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, July 8, 2005

A former Plum police sergeant is expected to plead guilty today to reduced federal charges in connection with the theft of a handgun from the department's evidence room.

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It was a high end .45 that the cops siezed for no reason. The owner forced them to return it and when he went to pick it up --- guess what? It was "missing".

[boris]

I ask again: if a transfer of firearms is occurring without the requisite paperwork (as it seems it must in 'no questions asked' "buy backs"), is not federal and state law being violated (multiple counts)?

Why does not some concerned citizen alert the BATF that the mayor, chief of police, et al are carrying on illegal trafficking in firearms right now at the corner of 4th and Main?...

--Boris

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

…destroying the gun "would be a crime."

Why is “would be a crime” emphasized in quotes? I can guess, and I am a little annoyed.