Posted on 03/02/2012 5:09:12 PM PST by Altariel
Well, 9/10 times that someone has a machine gun in their home, they are a gang banger or a drug dealer. Does that mean the feds can seize any machine gun they find, without bothering to establish that the person is unlawfully in possession of it?
I doubt you’ll carry your logic to the point of saying “Viva la war on guns!”.
“If you’ve got $200,000 in paper money stashed away, you’re either an idiot or a criminal.”
Maybe, but being an idiot is not illegal.
Yes, 2000 hundred-dollar bills would weigh 2000 grams, or roughly 4.4 pounds. A stack of 50 bills is 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches high, and I figure no more than 0.43 inches tall, if you double the actual height of the individual bills to account for lack of compression. A men’s shoebox is 10.125 inches wide, 14.75 inches long, and 5.625 inches tall, so you could fit 4 x 2 x 13 stacks in a shoebox, or 5200 bills in it.
So, if the bills were all hundreds, it wouldn’t even fill half a shoebox. You could fit $200k in fifties in a shoebox easily as well.
Well, then - I guess it's OK in your Fascist little mind for the security forces to steal it...
Change the subject when you're looking like an idiot. Thumbs up!
“$200,000 in cash, in your house? Who does that?”
I personally know 2 people that probably have at least that much cash on hand!
Show me where I said that. Throw up a straw man to distract from your idiocy. Thumbs up!
I wouldn't be surprised. Most drug war advocates have no problem with the BATFags taking away scary guns, justified or not.
Well, on FR, especially considering his handle, I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt.
People who don’t trust banks. People who have memories of or are familiar with financial controls during the depression. People who have studied what went on during the collapse in Argentina. People who want to live under the radar for whatever reason. I can think of many types of people who do this as well.
Correct. The only question I have is why the couple didn’t have it in a concealed safe, and of course I am assuming they did not. There are many companies now that specialize in the installation of small safes for just this purpose; they are very good at what they do and the likelihood is that the safes will never be found.
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