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I remember when Katrina rolled over NOLA and cops were imported from all over the country to "maintain the peace."
Which they did by confiscating guns from law abiding people who'd survived the storm and were prepared to sit tight until services were restored.
Many people never saw their guns again because the burden of proof was put on the owner to show they owned it, rather than on the police to keep track of where the gun had come from and return it.
Most states subject to hurricanes now have laws forbidding such confiscations, now.
But this shit comes up again with red flag laws.
You've got to prove it's your gun, despite the cops taking it straight from you.
This is on top of being required to come to where they have your gun stored, rather than them bringing it back.
I think it's high time that the burden be put where it belongs: On government.
If they seize something that needs to be returned, it should be returned to the owner.
Ownership should not be in question. The police know where the item came from and whom they took it from. All you should need show is that you're the person in question.
Not provide a receipt or bill of sale.
I think I will suggest this to my normally useless state legislators on Monday.
Hey Angus,
ReplyDeleteTo the "Cloud People", This is a feature, not a bug. The more guns they can remove off the street and away from the "Dirt people", no matter the pretense is the end game....you can't have the proles complaining and fighting back you know.....They gotta know their place.
Yes. Libtards are all for the government not following the law if it works in their advantage, but are super big crybabies when things don't go their way. Wealthy liberals are mostly all elitist scum. They claim to be for the "little guy" while shitting on the less fortunate every time they get a chance and throwing them out feces and scraps to keep them in line.
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If they can't be trusted to manage to figure out and keep track of who owns something they confiscated, how in the world can they ever be trusted not to MISHANDLE or OUTRIGHT LIE about chains of evidence? Any LE agency who can't handle this properly should have ALL of the cases they've EVER had go to trial based on firearms evidence THROWN OUT. Seriously, it's the same thing. It means they're either LIARS and THIEVES or they are INCOMPETENT. My opinion is they know but are DISHONEST and CORRUPT. Just saying they were STUPID would be giving them too much of a break.
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