Posted on 04/01/2014 2:03:40 PM PDT by marktwain
yes, in fact my son had a rifle taken by the police
No
Three times. TSA each time. Knives, and flasks.
They should have to do what customs at the Canada border does.
They mail it back to your house and you have to pay postage and handling.
Yep a very nice folding fillet knife by the police in NYC. Back in 1973 it was. Still ticks me off to this day.
One of the Swiss Army knives in that picture belongs-(ed) to me.
TSA took my can opener (P-38)
Oh and a little Swiss Army knife.
Any details that you can provide might be instructive to the rest of us. I am not talking serial numbers, but an understanding of how it happened, was a receipt given, was any overt threat made, things such as that.
The gun was originally stolen from my home in 1989. The suburban philly township had bad apples who would steal anything not nailed down and fence it at a salvage yard in Abington Township. The owner of that salvage yard was also part of the FBI investigation and ended up doing his time in the Graterford Maximum security prison in Skippack Pa.
Those are different times where the police state was in check. Wouldn't happen today.
(The bad apples were the cops)
Yes, a very small swiss army knife that had zero potential to harm anyone but it had sentimental value to me and was a handy knife to keep in my purse as it has scissors and other tools.
I was trying to visit city official and they took it from me. They wouldn’t hold it for me until I left the building and I had nowhere to put it (was dropped off and didn’t have my car). I should have skipped the meeting and told them why.
> (The bad apples were the cops)
Rotten to the core?...: )
He and his buds were shooting at some place they thought was “the country” and got stopped by the police on their way back. All the rifles were confiscated.
When he went to court (surreptitiously, he wanted to handle it himself even though both parents are lawyers), the prosecutor “cut him a deal” part of which was he couldn’t have his property returned.
And to make matters worse, now he is on some database having to do with gun offenses, so it takes extra time any time he wants to buy a firearm.
He was about 19 or 20 when this happened.
Yes, in car when pulled over for traffic stop, found out then I had a warrant for a 2 year old NSF check in another County.
Car towed/searched/car impounded/single shot shotgun and hunting knife seized.
5 days in that County jail waiting to be transfered to NSF check County, 12 hours in that County holding cell, ROR due to 1st and only NSF check.
$800 to get car back.
Just at a year to get shotgun back w/help of local Lawyer sending Formal Request to cops threatening legal action if My Property was not returned.
Got shotgun back about a month later, they said “we can’t find the knife”.
I’m sure it just walked out of evidence locker ALL by itself.
They took your P-38 can opener? Seriously?
That’s insane!
Well, they knew that your plan was to cut your way out of the plane with it at 35,000’.
Right?
Nail clippers. TSA.
I’ve had the local courthouse confiscate my pocketknife and “Leatherman,” but they had a place to store them so I could retrieve them with my receipt.
Even though the cops were doing the breaking and entering, theft, fencing, and conspiracy............ But hey that's just good police work these days, shy some dog shooting.
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