Posted on 08/03/2012 4:34:00 AM PDT by Ratman83
San Francisco Police displayed an array of high power weapons and ammunition Wednesday that were found in a homeless man’s car last month in Golden Gate Park.
Officers had prior contact with the man, but Chief of Police Greg Suhr ended up defending his department even though the suspect got past them with a large amount of weapons.
KCBS’ Jeffrey Schaub Reports:
SF Police Chief Defends Officers After Homeless Man With Cache Of Weapons Slipped Through The Cracks When police found a huge cache of guns, knives, a shotgun, 5,800 rounds of ammunition and camouflage gear in Robert Johns’ car on July 21st it was thought they may have diverted some kind of planned attack.
Also in that vehicle was a list of names of political leaders, reportedly including President Barack Obama.
It turned out to be Johns’ second arrest. In late June police took him into custody for having weapons in his car, but were more concerned about his mental health. John was evaluated and then later released.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Absolutely frightening.
Charge everyone involved with USC Title 18 Sec 241/242. Deprivation of Civil Rights under Color of Law and Conspiracy to commit same.
Including the author of this screed, Captain Hyperbole.
Not a flare gun. .22 Derringer type pistol. The rifle looks like a .22 as well going from the relative size of the tube magazine.
(gasp!)
And the boxes have targets on them!
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LOL!
I remember sitting over a Coleman stove pouring hot lead into molds for my father while he packed the casings with powder....at six years old.
Now a few common items become a 'weapons cache'? Kids get suspended for drawing pictures of guns? Eesh!
We've become the Paranoid Society.
And that black pistol holster? Chilling...
The guy needs to be locked up for a long, long time for scaring everybody so badly!
My guess, when I first heard of this a few days ago, what that the guy, on his way to down and out homeless, managed to hold on to some personal possessions that were valuable, useful and portable.
I'm seeing a pump shotgun, a .22 rifle, a flare gun and a pistol I can't identify. Also, a case for the rifle, a couple cheap holsters, some unknown accessories and a poseur's bat belt.
"5000 rounds of ammunitions!" is probably 10 bricks of .22LR.
Homeless?? All he had to do was get in his car and drive home. Problem fixed...no longer homeless !!
Must not have been any Chic-fil-a sandwich wrappers laying on the floor of his car. They’d be on display too. Sure signs of a”hater”.
Maybe the SFPD should hold regular ammo box buyback days?
I charge that the federal government, in cooperation with the big cities (which are really just little communist city-states), is really cranking up the fear factor on guns, in an attempt to pass registration/confiscation.
Notice that he had about 6,000 rounds of ammo. Who can carry 6,000 rounds of 12-gauge? The 6,000 number must be focus-group tested for maximum fear factor and simultaneous credence.
The fact that it is a perfectly legal shotgun for hunting is beside the point.
I see he has cleverly disguised his .50 cal Barrett as a knife case and the RPG looks suspiciously like a rifle scope.
Yeah, I can see why he had to be arrested.
I think the pistol is a Tokarev.
His car is his home where is the crime.
In other news, the SFPD has ordered clean shorts for the whole department.
Or be like me. No sir Mr. Homeland Security official I don't have any guns at all nor ammo or stored food but I did hear my neighbor across the way talking about his huge cache of weapons and such. You'll know which house I'm talking about it is the one with the "Prius" in the driveway with the Obama stickers on the bumper. He said he hid his stuff in the walls and under the basement floor!
Oh, he had a "list" of some sort that included POTUS...OMG CIRCLE THE WAGONS!!!
If the guy had a .338 rifle, a wind meter and a detailed itenerary for POTUS, I can see them getting a bit wound up about him. But this is just silly. Gay, even.
But...but...you are ignoring the fact that they actually found “camouflage gear” in the guy’s car. It says so in the artical. Don’t you want us to be safe from people like this?
artical=article
Yipes! My fear of camouflage gear may render me semi-literate.
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