Posted on 04/10/2013 8:38:33 AM PDT by Rusty0604
A person who has their firearms stolen is the victim of a crime. To impose upon them the affirmative duty to report same to the Attorney General is an outrage. These people are not criminals, they are victims in that their property has been taken unlawfully.
This will lead to thousands of annual prosecutions of people who are claimed not have not reported "within 24 hours" their "alleged knowledge" of the theft. While there are certainly times that knowledge is obvious, such as when someone tears your gun safe off the concrete floor and rips a hole in the room in which it was formerly present to do so, a huge number of firearms are stolen without the person who has them taken being immediately aware of it.
This law explicitly authorizes and promotes political prosecutions where the exact time of the offense cannot be ascertained but the person has "allegedly" failed to so-report.
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It was about 10 years before I discovered my idiot brother had stolen my shotgun
I stopped hunting when the kids and job started elimintating spare time, and when I went to go teach them about hunting, it was gone. Idiot sold it on me too.
Feinstein, Boxer, Reid, Obama ~ that whole crowd are in this together. I won't be happy until they're on a state penal farm pulling weeds.
Oh, and his logic was “well you weren’t using it” (and apparently “I needed to spend the money”)
This is so typical of the libtard mentality: focus on stuff, not on criminals. The poster child for this sh*t is the TSA which confiscates knitting needles from grandmothers but ushers Muzzie terrorists to the head of the line.
This one is pretty concerning. What if you have a lake house or hunting lodge you keep some at and don’t visit it for months at a time?
I won't be happy until they are dead. Preferably from a slow degenerative disease. Tyrants deserve nothing less.
Lots of weed pulling first.
You pay a fine and/or go to jail.
Years ago we were hectic getti9ng ready for a 1 1/2 wk vacation trip. Hubby was at work about 3 days prior to leaving and had an accident. Couldn’t drive so I had to go pick him up. He got better and we left on our vacation.
2 wks later we came home and I couldn’t find my 38 s&w which I always kept in a drawer by the bed. Looked everywhere. House had not been broken into and no one had been there that we could tell but couldn’t find my pistol for the life of us.
Reported it as stolen, collected insurance money and everything and ordered me a Beretta. Hubby was a licensed FFL at the time.
About 6 mnths later I was going through a dresser drawer looking for something and voila.....there between a bunch of layers of clothes was the S&W. Guess between the rush of hubby’s accident and leaving I had stuck it in there to hide it, knowing we were leaving, and simply walked away and forgot what I did with it. jeez
We had to reverse everything we did before, insurance, police, etc. What a headache.
Just a way to criminalize honest, law-abiding non-violent people. And they know it.
I already had an unfortunate canoeing accident, on a very deep lake.
Typical lefty mindset: they know we ‘bitter clingers’ are law abiding, so they expect us to bow under their yoke while their criminal base continues to ignore gun laws.
What is it about ‘Molon labe’ that they don’t understand? I’m going to have to say ‘everything.’ One more time, with feeling for the transgressors: we won’t bring them to you. Come and take them.
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