"There it is! I knew I left it around here somewhere!"
Posted on 06/28/2016 12:13:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A San Francisco sheriff's deputy's missing handgun turned up in a homicide investigation in Solano County last year, the latest discovery of what happened to one of hundreds of lost or stolen law enforcement weapons uncovered by a Bay Area News Group investigation published Sunday.
Former Deputy Armando Gonzalez apparently didn't report his duty weapon missing for nearly two years until after Fairfield police detectives called him last year to say his gun had turned up in a search connected to the killing of a local teen. Only then did he report to his superiors that his wife took the gun "a couple of years ago" when the couple broke up.
On Monday officials from the San Francisco Sheriff's department said they were told the gun wasn't used in the killing, but the story of its disappearance and recovery infuriated a state lawmaker who is pushing legislation to force officers to safeguard their weapons.
The news organization's survey of police in the Bay Area and state and federal law enforcement across California found 944 firearms have been lost, stolen or unaccounted for since 2010. The alarming figure comes a year after the high-profile killing of Kate Steinle, who was shot by an illegal immigrant with a gun stolen from the car of a Bureau of Land Management ranger.
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But, by God, you civilians in California better get permits and licenses, and you can’t be trusted with weapons that have certain cosmetic features or hold more than some arbitrary number of rounds and and and and...
Armando Gonzalez
In my agency if I lost a weapon I would be making fries for a living.
CC
Hey look, he’s a Mexican.
If as a private citizen you want to own a firearm in Canada, you have to take a course and pass an exam, after which you buy a 5 year permit to own. A handgun you have to be a member of a gun club and get a transport permit as well for any time the pistol is being moved.
If the firearm is lost or stolen, you are required to inform the provincial firearms officer and the local constabulary IMMEDIATELY you notice the breach of security.
These rules do NOT apply to the armed forces, which is fine with me, but the POLICE do NOT have to go through these same procedures, and they carry constantly, in public.
One rule for the peons, another for the elite and their dedicated minions. Humbug.
Hundreds of lost or stolen weapons makes one think.
Not accidental.
The cops are selling them.
Law enforcement obviously can’t be trusted with firearms.
All of them should turn in their guns that still have them.
Mike Stone would have never let a lost weapon go unreported but sadly that’s TV.
Surprise, surprise. And he’s not on the force any longer. He quit long before the missing gun thing surfaced.
But that’s not what occurred. The cop alleged his own wife took the gun. And this is not the first time that story has been used.
I don’t believe the cop. That was the best he could come up with when the gun turned up in connection with a homicide. “I found out yesterday that she had it”. And the lazy reporter didn’t even track down the wife.
"There it is! I knew I left it around here somewhere!"
They wouldn’t do anything to the wife anyway as she could say anything.
Well then the former officer is full of s**t. I’m breaking up with somebody, they take my duty weapon, I call my agency and have other members of the force get it back from her. If she doesn’t have it, charge her with theft of government property. Bastard sold it.
CC
The wife will never be prosecuted for anything. Once again, she can saying. Btw, what if she simply denied it?
Indeed, one gun missing on a military base and everyone is on lock down until found, and it does not happen often.
Gosh, got to take those weapons from police away. They end up in the wrong hands...
Right, with gun control, only criminals and police have guns
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