[marktwain]

No charges yet. The police are unsure if a crime has actually been committed.

"The fact that the guns were not locked up and that one of the hand guns was loaded is a major concern, Fossum said, because of the risk they could be stolen if the home was broken into."

This is what the left considers "reasonable" gun control

[caver]

Katie was shaking in her panties when she wrote this article.

[coloradan]

While the eight rifles and four hand guns were registered, some were modified with accessories such as scopes, lights and a tripod which might make them restricted or prohibited weapons, Fossum said.

"... after all, we can't have just anybody being able to see their target, positively identify it, especially under conditions of darkness or at a distance, and/or be able to hold the gun steady enough to be able to hit that target."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“We’re asking the question, why so many guns?” he said.

I know this story is from Canada but here in America, I respond to that question with, "I don't need a reason."

[coloradan]

“We’re asking the question, why so many guns?” he said.

Just wait until you find out how many books the guy had!! I mean, sure, there might be some limited freedom of the press (although, not much in Canada), but, this is going waaaay too far. Nobody needs that many books. That's why there are libraries. Ideas kill, you know.

[apillar]

When police first entered the house, they also found grenades, which almost sparked a call to the RCMP explosives unit, but the grenades had been rendered safe.

Translation: They were those dummy, hollow training grenades you can buy at most flea markets and novelty stores.

So basically the police raided this guys house because somebody reported he had live grenades, which turned out to be dummy grenades. So to keep from being embarrassed and looking stupid the police find some minor technical violation about the way he stored his guns and ammo.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Oh hell.
“Improperly stored” guns...

[Dead Corpse]

All of my firearms have been modified. This serves to personalize each one for the job for which I use it for. Some have bi-pods. Some have modified stocks. Some have optics/lights/lasers.

If you put a bumper sticker on a car, you have modified it from stock.

Capt. Hyperbole needs to find that large bottle of chill pills she lost...

[DBrow]

You can’t have a scoped rifle in Canada? I though I’ve seen pix of people hunting there with scopes.

[DBrow]

Hmm, the guy was apparently home, the safe was unlocked, and guns (scary looking ones) were out of the safe.

Does not look like improper storage to me, if he was home. Now if he was not there and left dangerous scopes and dummy grenades out, then indeed send him to the Canadian version of gitmo./s

[Navy Patriot]

Certainly a good thing those Mounties were able to find all those assault weapon, people have no reason to have an assault weapon.

Just think how bad it would have been if those assault weapons could have gotten back in to their disguises as regular guns.

[Robert357]

“...some of the guns were modified to look “more menacing” and he doubts any of them were used for hunting purposes...”

Well even though it is Canada, here is the real evil of what this guy did.

I mean firearms, in a polite society must not look menacing. After all isn't that what the assault weapon legislation was all about.

[cuban leaf]

some were modified with accessories such as scopes, lights and a tripod

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The horror!

[TigersEye]

Const. Olen Bernardo, one of the investigators, said some of the guns were modified to look “more menacing” and he doubts any of them were used for hunting purposes.

Because a gun that looks "more menacing" can't kill a deer.
It's a law of nature. Or something.

“We’re asking the question, why so many guns?” he said.

Twelve? My first thought was "why so few?"

[Still Thinking]

"The fact that the guns were not locked up and that one of the hand guns was loaded is a major concern, Fossum said, because of the risk they could be stolen if the home was broken into."

Uh, if the house was "broken into" that implies that the weapons were already in a locked enclosure (the house). If being in one locked enclosure isn't enough to reassure the hoplophobes, what evidence is there that being in a locked enclosure inside a locked enclosure would do so? If they go into someone's house and find all the guns inside a closed and locked safe, will they be allowed to claim they were stored unsafely because someone could "break into" the safe? That to be safe they should have been inside A THIRD locked enclosure inside the locked enclosure inside the locked enclosure?

[Still Thinking]

“We’re asking the question, why so many guns?” he said.

There must have been 20 cops on the scene....why so many cops? Katie writes at least two articles a week...why so MUCH freedom of speech? Wouldn't one article a month be more reasonable?

[W.Lee]

Bipods and scopes and lights, oh my! Bipods and scopes and lights, oh my!

[TigersEye]

...some were modified with accessories such as scopes, lights and a tripod which might make them restricted or prohibited weapons, Fossum said.

Good God Almighty!!! Was he in possession of shooting gloves and hearing protection too???????

[G Larry]

“some were modified with accessories such as scopes, lights and a tripod which might make them restricted or prohibited weapons,....
...some of the guns were modified to look “more menacing”...”

Nice to know that “looks more menacing”, and scopes, lights, and tripods, are legal considerations for weapons in Canada....
Warning! These laws are Coming to a State near you!

[TangoLimaSierra]

they also found grenades, which almost sparked a call to the RCMP explosives unit, but the grenades had been rendered safe.

In other words, dummy grenades. Wussies.

[jboot]

On what pretext did the raid occur? The article says nothing about probabale cause (possibly because it isn't operative in Canukistan).

Maybe the gun owner didn't smile when a policeman went by?