Posted on 08/24/2009 4:55:59 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The City Council is considering a program to let the Police Department sell confiscated guns to licensed dealers. Sales could net $10,000 a year.
Reporting from Colorado Springs, Colo. - This conservative city is taking an unusual, some might say extreme, step to try to stem its fiscal woes: It's entering the gun business.
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confiscate? From who? Gang members, violent criminals, drug dealers?
And what are the odds that these guns were used in a Previous, yet unsolved crime. I would not take a chance...I would rather pay a little extra than have to lawyer my way out of a later ‘arrest” cause the weapon was used somehwere 5 yrs ago!
Weapons SEIZED during an arrest and not connected to a crime are kept.
THESE are the ones going up for sale.
Pay attention to the difference there.
Example. Your girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever, files a Domestic Violence charge against you and it sticks. GUESS WHAT...your weapons are confiscated, since you can't have them by law.
Guess where those are going? Up for sale.
And where was the gun used BEFORE they were confiscated?
My sense is that if a gun is confiscated, they are usually confiscated from people already somehow more likely to be involved in, and get guns from people who are involved in criminal activities. Ergo, the chances of that weapon having a “history “ is more likely.
I am very dubious of police record keeping...perhaps I am wrong here...and that adds to the “odds’ that while the police may ‘check’ the gun to see if it has a history, mistakes are more likely to happen.
BTW, you don’t have to be partonizing...I could have as easily said ‘see the difference’... but i was trying to just have an opinion on the odds.
Thanks for your opinion...I got flamed cause of just such a scenario I was concerned about...see my response in post 43...
What’s wrong with an open discussion to present possibillities...? I spent 3 hours in jail because of a ‘computer “ error...it all worked out, but I had to get an attorney to straighten out the mess. When we got it straight and I walked out of the courtroom to the DMV records clerk to check...Sure enough! It hadn’t been changed and my attorney dealt with it right then.
Sheeet happens and I am more cautious now.
I am not a legal authority. I understand the concept of just compensation.
The issue of how the weapons were seized would determine if it were an issue or not. I am sure there are circumstances where the law has been abused, but if the weapons were taken from someone committing burglary or drug trafficking it would seem reasonable.
Knowing Colorado Springs, I doubt the abuse would be an issue. In Chicago, then that is another matter.
I admit I do not have an informed opinion on the issue you cited.
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