Creeping Lenin, this is getting ridiculous...
Outright theft of estates by police, robbing private citizens who may be heirs to valuable property.
Just like the old Third Reich. America should be proud. We’re all Nazis now.
Or to munch on the leftover coldcut trays...
"Collect"? Or take an item that someone paid for without due process of the law. This is disgusting. It is Fascism.
My cousin was a retired Buffalo PD detective. My aunt was going to give me his firearms because I am still in law enforcement in Arizona.
I was astonished to hear they actually took his firearms from her, even though she was going to give them to me. No idea what they did with them.
Normally I’m concerned about burglars coming to the home. I don’t see the police worried about protecting the jewelry and silverware.
It's patently obvious that what they mean by "the wrong hands" is PRIVATE hands.
If you know someone is about to die, take the firearms and move them. This confiscation of someone’s estate without recompense will escalate until someone enforces the 5th Amendment.
I’d think a lawsuit or ten might slow this down.
I have plans to pass my arsenal on before I go, assuming I’m not killed by falling junk from a Russian satellite.
Registration always leads to confiscation!
Once again, trapped in a bizarre schism of simultaneously supporting the police and needing to ventilate them if they even attempt such a thing near me.
The NRA warned that gun registration would lead to confiscation. Gun control means the state controls the guns and the Second Amendment is dead.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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“...pistol permit holders...”
This is why they are pushing the gun transfer laws, like the one just passed in Washington state, and what they passed in Colorado. Did your loved one complete the proper paperwork authorizing gun inheritance before he passed on? Nope? Then they will confiscate.
Till death do us part........................
And with that we now have the Government in charge of YOUR personal property.
But hey, No one’s talking Gun Confiscation….. /Sarc.
It’s not quite as bleak a picture as you paint here in the Empire State. We are “may issue” and thus if a gun owner dies and no one has a permit, the police may take such weapons.
There are 2 solutions. First, delay the obituary, the police read them, too. Second,have an estate plan and register your guns on someone else’s permit.
For example, I have my brother’s guns on mine and he has mine on his. Our wills reflect this, problem solved.
If you plan poorly be it in you possessions or finances, the state makes the decisions. The New York State police are not the gestapo, they are following the law.
dentalque on November 13, 2014 at 9:21 AM
The Gestapo was just following the law, too.
Sadly, I suspect the thinking of this commenter is typical for New Yorkers.
I keep wondering why grieving families would go for a boat ride so soon after burying a loved one ..... or before while they’re dying ....