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Getting your gun back will cost you
(Sheriff charging for guns' return)
The Daily Bulletin ^
| 12/7/2005
| Ben Baeder
Posted on 12/08/2005 7:45:48 AM PST by Smogger
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"I would say it's communism," said Gene Fister, 70. "But taking something that belongs to someone else and charging them to get it back -- it's worse. It's stealing."
No kidding Gene. Stealing under color of authoriy. But hey. What else is new?
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:45:49 AM PST
by
Smogger
To: Smogger
I think extortion would be a better analogy than stealing, since the item is eventually returned.
To: Smogger
I do not understand why posessing a firearm that was once used in a crime is so bad.
If the PD confiscates a gun and finds that it had once been held by a criminal when robbing a convenience store, that means that you cannot own the gun- which is why they do background checks on the firearm.
This is New Age hoodoo or Middle Ages fears of witchcraft.
But think if this idea of charging people to get backk what was theirs all along catches on, then they can take your car for a stopsign violation and charge you a few thousand, or turn you out of your home and charge you tens of thousands to get it back. The LA revenue shortfall will be a thing of the past!
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:50:53 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: Smogger
To the dismay of gun owners, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is now charging $54 to return firearms seized during arrests or searches - even if the gun was legally owned and not used in a crime.This is total bulls***.
Someone needs to not pay and SUE the bastards for the gun back.
Creepy a-hole futhermuckers.
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:52:27 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Lying About My Sign-Up Date Since 1998)
To: Smogger
Fine, I say take the tires off of their patrol cars and for a mere $54.00 a piece they can have them back.
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:54:31 AM PST
by
unixfox
(AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
To: Smogger
Government thievery at its best.
Imagine your car was towed from your drive way to a government holding facility, and when they were done with it, and they found nothing, they presented you a bill for $800 for the storage and towing fees incurred because of their investigation.
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:54:36 AM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Smogger
The "impounding a car" analogy is crap because cars don't get impounded unless there's a reason for it: DUI, illegally parked, etc. This is referring to guns that were not used in any illegal manner.
Only in CA...
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:56:24 AM PST
by
GoleeMD
To: Smogger
Wow. And I live in MA.
Where can a free man live now, where he doesn't have to be a lawyer to own a gun?
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:57:30 AM PST
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: Gefreiter
Where can a free man live now, where he doesn't have to be a lawyer to own a gun? Where can a free man live now, where he doesn't have to be a lawyer (or, a TV personality, newspaper columnist, entertainer, ect.) to own a gun?
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:08:47 AM PST
by
LRS
To: Smogger
$27,000 the county spends each year storing guns. Where do they "store" them? Each gun has a room at Holiday Inn?
FreeePeee!
To: Lazamataz
Yep....
But did we expect anything else?
Too bad we are STILL too civilized to do what we SHOULD be doing to rectify things.
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:16:16 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: Smogger
How about who-ever has to pay this fee makes a private persons arrest on the property deputy for GRAND THEFT GUN which is a felony in California. Then files a report with the D.A.'s office. When no satisfaction is received from the D.A.'s Deputy, then a FEDERAL lawsuit with the F.B.I. involved.
But the fools of L.A. County elected this clown Lee Baca. He was a jerk when I went through the L.A. Co. Sheriff's academy in 1969 and he was an instructor then. I did not vote for him.
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:21:37 AM PST
by
stumpy
To: LRS
Colorado, for one. Private sales are still legal, though the two largest newspapers forbid advertising of same, no registration of anything, open carry is theoretically legal and you can have loaded handguns in your car without a permit (except in Denver), it's a Shall-Issue state, there are no storage laws, no purchase limits, no bans on specific types of ammo (AP, tracer, etc)... although we're being overrun by Kali commies, and so the laws are slowly changing against us. But this is the present state of affairs here.
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:23:32 AM PST
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: SoCal Pubbie
"I think extortion would be a better analogy than stealing, since the item is eventually returned."
Not if you don't have the money. It's theft and should be treated as theft. The sheriff should be indited and tried.
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:23:48 AM PST
by
monday
To: coloradan
A dash of sarcasm on my part in adding to Gefreiter's post. As you probably know, some of the loudest lefty gun grabbers have no qualm on having arms to protect their over inflated self importance (Rosie O'D popped in my head initially - the only time I ever even think about her miserable existence), while opposing us "little" people's 2nd Amendment rights...
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:34:30 AM PST
by
LRS
To: LRS
"Where can a free man live now, where he doesn't have to be a lawyer (or, a TV personality, newspaper columnist, entertainer, ect.) to own a gun?"
Vermont. But who the hell wants to live in that place?
To: Smogger
Paredes was referring to Assembly Bill 2431, passed in September 2004, which requires police to catalog guns and store them for at least one year before the agency is allowed to destroy them. It also allows agencies to charge a storage fee.
there's the problem right there. don't destroy guns, auction them off. destroying costs money, selling makes it. if LEAs used simple capitalism to fund themselves rather than marxist taxation they would be much better funded and people would be much happier about it (a lot less stupid money maker tickets).
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:44:10 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: Gefreiter
Where can a free man live now, where he doesn't have to be a lawyer to own a gun? Alaska, but don't bring a little gun, you'll just make that bear mad.
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:45:02 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Leo Carpathian
$27,000 the county spends each year storing guns. Where do they "store" them? Each gun has a room at Holiday Inn?Hey, they just pull a number out of the air and you're supposed to believe it. Just another way to get money out of the taxpayer.....it's all really theirs, ya know.
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:45:11 AM PST
by
sangoo
To: sangoo
$27,000 the county spends each year storing guns. Where do they "store" them? Each gun has a room at Holiday Inn?
Actually, it's probably the salary of the county clerk who minds the gun vault...gotta take away all these bad guns, oops now we gotta hire someone to babysit them...
R3
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posted on
12/08/2005 8:50:17 AM PST
by
RedRightReturn
(Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
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