if they themselves are not a violent criminal, yes.
I would think that the crime with the gun is a felony. How can a felon make a claim for a gun?
This is a silly idea Physical taking, merely by itself, is no basis for ownership.
The problem is that crooks usually don’t maintain their weapons well, so there’s a potential for the would-be victim to end up with a low quality, or unsafe weapon. If this proposal were pursued, what I’d prefer to do is that the weapon gets confiscated and destroyed, and the crook is ordered to make restitution to the victim in an amount that includes the full purchase price of a new weapon of similar make. That way, if he grabs it, instead of getting somebody’s old piece of junk, he gets a brand new gun. We’d also be injecting a little extra money into the economy that way.
I think the victim should keep the attacker’s wallet.
If the victim so desires and is not otherwise legally barred from possession plus the weapon is not reported stolen, sure. Just spoils of combat.
Many street guns have been used in violent crimes including murder and have a legacy ballistic evidence trail that could get any owner in a lot of trouble.
Any gun obtained from a criminal should be sent to the police for forensic evaluation to determine it's criminal history.
On the topic of returning guns to violent criminals who hold others at gunpoint and threaten to murder innocent people in unprovoked assaults, lets just say I'm not in favor of leaving the offender in any position or condition to have a weapon of any sort returned to them.
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A high percentage of street guns are very high quality because they were stolen from honest homeowners who were burgled.
The guns should be used for ballistic matching and evidence at trial and then immediately returned to the rightful owner with the rightful owner’s homeowner’s insurance policy paying a standard 10% finder’s fee to the individual who recovered the stolen property.
If by some stretch, an individual used a lawfully purchased weapon in a home invasion, the weapon should be returned by police (after trial) to the homeowner who recovered the gun or disposed of at that new owner’s discretion.
It is the homeowner’s home and bringing the weapon onto his property equates to a gift. The government has no more right to private property than their employers: the public.
A gun is not illegal. The original owner relinquished his/her right to own a gun (by committing a felony) and the gun now belongs to the last legally entitled possessor.
To the victor goes the spoil.
Give them a choice - keep the weapon or an ear...
Spot on. Did the perp show up for treatment? Was the gun stolen? If yes, it should be returned to its rightful owner.
If the weapon is a Taurus, make sure it works properly before your life depends on it.
Because so many guns used in crime are either defective, or “tainted”, by being associated with other crimes, in most cases it would be more appropriate to provide the citizen with a new, replacement gun. Assuming of course, that they and their family are legally allowed to be armed, and that they want it.
This being said, I am all for charity that would purchase and provide both guns and ammunition to some of the people who live in high crime areas.
1) Solely because of cost, inexpensive .22 pistols, about $125 each, and a small box of ammo, say $10.
2) Each gun would be engraved, about $15 a gun, that the gun is the property of the charity, is not for resale, nor can it be legally transferred to another person or outside of the state without permission of the charity.
3) Each gun would be ballistic tested, and those rounds preserved by the charity in case they were needed for a criminal investigation.
4) Distribution of the guns would only be to households where no one living there was legally forbidden to own a gun, and who wanted a gun. Perhaps one in four would fit those limits.
5) For just $10000, the charity could purchase 65 guns and ammo, and have them engraved. This would cover an area in the high crime neighborhood of about 260 homes, with random distribution. At half the cost of one full time rookie police officer for just one year.
Works under Klingon law. I believe you also get to keep his wife.
I wouldn’t want to keep a criminal’s gun. No telling what other crimes it is linked to and it may be listed as a stolen weapon. I’d dump it it deep water or a trash bin ASAP.