Police: Elderly N.J. Couple Had Hundreds Of Guns

WNBC Television ^ | 6/2/2005

[Puppage]

She suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

So? Maybe she's incontinent, too.

[SouthernFreebird]

What the heck are they guilty of?

[Route101]

I don't blame them...they probably looked around and saw how the government was running the country.......

[caver]

What's a "hazardous situation" and how can you be charged?

[Vaquero]

He should have not lived in NJ if he wanted that kind of collection. Of course that does not let NJ off the hook for being a state that thumbs its nose at the constitution.

[xcamel]

Were the guns locked up? Who "ratted them out"??

So far, they're guilty of nothing.

[cripplecreek]

I don't know that a crime was committed but I'm not sure I would want an Alzheimer's victim having easy access to weapons.

My grandmother had a neighbor who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He tried to kill his wife when he didn't recognize her.

[basil]

I'm curious as to why the cops were searching their house in the first place. Does any one know?

[Puppage]

I'm not sure I would want an Alzheimer's victim having easy access to weapons

Where in this article does it mention easy access??

[Graybeard58]

My aunt had Alzheimer's disease and when she reached a certain point in her psychosis I wouldn't have wanted her to have access to any guns.

It would have been worse than leaving them for a child to get at.

[SW6906]

"The weapons range from pistols to machine guns."

Really now? I doubt it. Typical ignorant media.

"He's now charged with creating a hazardous situation."

What hazardous situation? Did he booby-trap his collection? Were the guns stored loaded, cocked and UNlocked? Don't the police know how to handle weapons and ammunition?

[FreedomPoster]

FReepers, if you have this sort of a collection, it is your civic duty to start passing it on to Constitutionally-minded youngsters when you get up in years, so this fate does not come to it.

[mbynack]

He's now charged with creating a hazardous situation and could face other charges.

I guess the police armory is a "hazardous situation," too. At what point does gun ownership transition from collecting to a "hazardous situation"? Can I own 99 guns and be a collector, but buy one more and be charged with a crime? How did the police ever get a warrant to search if there was no evidence of a crime?

[FreedomPoster]

A real shame ping.

[cripplecreek]

They were in the home. that's easy access in my book.

[chapin2500]

All I see in this article are more guns seized by the government from private citizens.

[Smokin' Joe]

He was a physician and gun enthusiast who was arrested in 1974 and charged with selling submachine guns, grenades and other weapons to two undercover federal agents.

Notice it does not say "convicted". If he had been, then imho, they would have said so. At that point, absent any felony convictions or misdemeanor acts of domestic violence, I can't think of a Federal crime here. Unless the Class 3 stuff does not have the paperwork.

It sounds to me as if someone is looting the gentle folks' gun collection.

[ctlpdad]

What the heck are they guilty of?

Being targeted & set up by JBT's. I am very surprised the feds ddin't track down their kids & shoot them ala Randy Weaver's wife.

[PGalt]

Wise advice.

[Judge Roy]

Yep the police have found a very valuble life time collection and will find a way to keep it and profit themselves, just because they can.