Posted on 03/14/2010 11:03:14 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Some departments sell or trade weapons seized in criminal cases.
WASHINGTON - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both guns were once seized in criminal cases in Memphis. The officials described how the weapons made their separate ways from an evidence vault to gun dealers and to the shooters.
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I'm not sure what the solution is here. Clearly, you have a right to sell your weapons, privately. OTOH, there are people - like Bedell - who shouldn't have access to firearms.
About the same as if a car sold at a police auction was used in the getaway from a bank robbery. A big “So, what?”
You can never keep the criminal element from obtaining weapons. You can deprive honest citizens of the right to protect themselves.
It really is as simple as that.
the rounds from those guns would have hurt much less if those rounds came from guns that didn’t come from the Memphis PD.
And hind site is 20/20
How do you propose we determine who is and who is not "mentally fit"
Do we start taking away rights because you think some one "may" commit a crime?
I don't thing anyone 2nd Amendment person I know wants to sell to someone who is unstable or shouldn't be buying a gun.
Apparently foresight was 20/20 here as well. California ruled that this guy was too mentally unstable to possess a firearm. It turns out, their ruling was quite prescient.
"Do we start taking away rights because you think some one "may" commit a crime? "
No. But we do take away people's rights because they can't discern fantasy from reality. There's nothing noble about presuming someone's Constitutionally protected right to make their own decisions, if they don't have the mental capacity to make those decisions, to include owning firearms.
"How do you propose we determine who is and who is not "mentally fit"
Many states (to include California) have procedures in place that strip citizens of their rights - (ie institutionalization). These procedures protect, respect and affirm the due process rights of the citizen.
Satellite TV consumers should avoid buying local channels, so that we starve the communist broadcast networks; ABC, NBC, CBS. They must be allowed to fail. Of course, I would have added CNN, but this network has successfully cloaked itself inside the cable, satellite and news format shell.
Please realize that; the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column! These news readers were responsible for promoting the most egfegious POS that ever occupied the White House. They must be made to pay people.
Unless we as a people omit these network outlets, they will continue to destroy us as a free nation! Watch network TV beyond primetime, you shall quickly agree how berift they are of legitimate advertisers these primetime hours. They only persist, because of PSA advertisements placed by the US and other 'friendly' governments. I'm not kidding, we are currently enduring PSA's launched by such wonderful kingdoms like Saudi Arabia. We must collectively halt their pernicious effects upon the national psyche!
Do you understand what I'm saying? If you have the 'stones' pull the plug on the whole damned TV set. You will suddenly discover how much extra time you have to do the much more important things in life. I would suggest that you write letters and e-mail your Congress Critters. Tell them NO on everything they can imagine!
Ah, no. I don't. This, as best I can tell, is a forum dedicated to discussing current events based upon news stories that are written about those events.
If we only posted stories from websites that you approve - although I don't even know where to find those sites, even if I were so inclined - we wouldn't have much to discuss, now would we?
It is not a coincidence that 2 firearms from the Memphis police, ended up in the hands of nut cases in California and Nevada who coincidentally used them to off some cops in high profile shootings. Gang bangers in Memphis maybe,,,,,what happened,,,no.
Buy a Tivo unit and fast forward through the LEFT WING PROPAGANDA and enjoy athletics and documentaries. We are at a war to the finish with the LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE and COMMUNIST AGENDA of our government! It's time to finally defeat our enemy.
The battle for the heart and souls of America needs to be fully joined. Take care Old Deckhand
I get the idea that these were not police issue weapons but street weapons that were taken from criminal suspects and not returned for whatever reason.
"...There's nothing noble about preserving someone's Constitutionally..."
Making arbitrary classes of "have's" and "have nots" is how we got into this screwed up situation to begin with.
and the problem with that is???????
You answered an STD? LOL!!!
Depends on why. If the suspect was found or pled guilty, generally he loses the gun.
Publish a list of people disallowed. When you want to sell a gun, check the guy’s ID and refer to the list. If NICS were done this way, you could even buy a new gun from an FFL and not have the goobermint maintaining a gunowner registration file on you.
so the gun belongs now, to the Memphis PD....who sells it to retailers who sell it to you or me or to a dirtbag.....legally just like any new or used gun...(or perhaps ..to a paper buyer who supplies dirt bags with weapons)...what I am saying is that if a dirtbag is going to commit a crime with a gun, he is going to commit a crime with a gun and where the gun was 2 years before does not matter.
True, we don't. But neither do we want the government to be in possession of a list of everyone who exercises their rights, especially when there is an alternative that addresses they reason they SAY they want the background checks.
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