LA police apparently have lots of extra time on their hands.
Los Angeles police find stash of 1,200 guns in dead man’s home
(FoxNews) -Los Angeles police investigating a man’s death discovered an arsenal of more than 1,200 firearms and approximately two tons of ammunition in his home and garage Monday.
…There were no signs of foul play in the man’s death, nor was there any indication that he had been involved in criminal activity. However, detectives want to investigate why the man had so many guns and whether the weapons had been linked to any crimes.“We have a lot of work to do,” Smith said. “Running the background, history and legality of these weapons is going to require a tremendous amount of time. It’s not a crime to have a large number of weapons so long as they were legal to own and legally obtained. We want to make sure that’s the case.”
“going to require a tremendous amount of time” that should be spent on criminal cases, not looking into a law-abiding (and now dead) gun owner’s collection.
Perhaps they are wanting to “look into it” so they can deny his next of kin the guns that are rightfully his.
Which brings us to the old joke about how different regions of the country look upon people who have more than a gun or three.
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You may have heard on the news about a southern California man put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found he owned 100 guns and allegedly had (by rough estimate) 100,000 rounds of ammunition stored in his home. The house also featured a secret escape tunnel.
My favorite quote from the dimwit television reporter: “Wow! He has about a quarter million machine gun bullets.” The headline referred to it as a “massive weapons cache”.
By southern California standards someone owning 100,000 rounds would be called “mentally unstable”.
Just imagine if he lived elsewhere:
In Arizona, he’d be called “an avid gun collector”.
In Texas, he’d be called “a novice gun collector”.
In Utah, he’d be called “moderately well prepared”, but they’d probably reserve judgment until they made sure that he had a corresponding quantity of stored food.
In Montana, he’d be called “The neighborhood ‘Go-To’ guy”.
In Idaho, he’d be called “a likely gubernatorial candidate”.
In Wyoming, he’d be called “an eligible bachelor”.
In Wisconsin, he’d be called “a deer hunting buddy”.
And, in Alabama, we just call him “Bubba”.
In Alaska he’d be called a little short on ammo.
What is the most they can do?
Send him away for life?
So, the justification for confiscating these firearms and investigating is that they “want to make sure” everything is legal?
How about applying the same standard to Congress, the Bamster and – just for good measure – the ATF.
So we can’t have (potentially) illegal guns, which probably haven’t been used to harm anyone, but it’s OK to have illegal people here, which have killed countless citizens.
Maybe they should just declare LA a sanctuary city for guns, then all will be OK.
In Massachusetts they would shoot his xog and take his guns.
I think he’s got a really good start.
From Illinois leading the nation in the number of X governors in the federal penitentiary.
So, at what point does a collection become an arsenal?
Inquiring minds want to know.
With the amount of liberals and progressives I’d says he’s running short on firepower.
It is shameful the way they piled all the firearms on tarps for publicity pictures. Apparently, LA LEO’s have no respect for the dead owner or his family or those the owner might have left his collection to.
Not only that, but they are stacking them haphazardly on top of one another over concrete pavement. There is clear disregard for protecting the finish of the guns. Worse yet, the police will probably improperly store the collection for an indefinite time while they “investigate.” So this guy’s estate, which included upwards of millions of dollars worth of guns, will now contain a bunch of scratched up and rusted husks that will be utterly worthless. Anything an investigator might like for themselves might be “misplaced” as well.
Could this be theft by law enforcement?
I figure this collection plus ammo is worth a million dollars. It will be total BS if they take this from the family
He bought guns like I buy pants. Six or 7 of the same at a time, one for each day of the week. I hope his family gets what’s rightfully theirs back soon.
This guy is a real gun lover. I wonder if he knew you many he had ??? He may have believed in the saying. ” if you know how many you have , you don’t have enough. “. And just kept buying and counting !!!