Looks like another massive governmental over-reach. Par for the course these days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2881687/posts
I want my neighbors to be prepared. This guy’s crime is jealousy from scum sucking leaches it seems.
Pays to keep your mouth SHUT!
Security is all about what your enemy doesn’t know.
Superficially, I want to see what pretrial discovery turns up.
“...collection of about a dozen firearms...”
At least they called it a collection and not an arsenal.
Looks like another massive governmental over-reach. Par for the course these days.
Spunds like most husbands...I can do it myself.
Yep looking for reasons because they didn't really have one to start with.
Here’s the problem with building a shelter with a bunch of neighbors around.
The Twilight Zone - The Shelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSwrIy4IwoU
OMG - He had firearms, car batteries, propane tanks, inert grenades and a hole!
What horrors lurk in the garages of Americans everywhere?
Loose lips sink ships.
Del Rio inherits the house, with a 50s or 60s era "bomb shelter." He expands on it some (before the age of required permits for storage sheds, doghouses, birdfeeders and rain gauges, and restrictions even on using collected rainwater for your plants), puts in air conditioning, and buys some legal firearms during that time. Hey, it's not that great a neighborhood...
Someone tells the Po-leece that he's got "a bunker, and guns, and suspicious barrels" and APD calls out the SWAT team, and the Bomb Squad, and a Central Command Post, and the Fire Department, and, finally, the code-enforcers (got to have some probably cause, ya know). "Hey, this could be bigger than Waco!"
One dynamic entry later, they realize that they've got a 72-year-old law abiding citizen, retired Air Force Reservist and former City of Austin employee, a harmless hole in the ground, legal guns, empty barrels, and lots of egg on their collective face.
From there on out, it's pure police-state CYA.
"The building's going to cave in tomorrow! Fill his basement with four or five truckloads of concrete!" (Er, 'scuse me, uh, it hasn't fallen in yet, after all these years -- what's the rush?)
"Old car batteries present a hazard! Build a $10,000 double chain-link fence and put scary signs on it!"
"Don't forget to cut off the electricity and water and evict him, then send the guy a bill for the whole screw-up and dare him to sue us."
I'm an ex-cop, and generally "pro-police," but you only have to be on-scene at an everyday automobile accident investigation here to see that APD is "us versus them" on way too many steroids. We're all guilty until proven innocent, and then just suspicious...