Posted on 08/20/2008 7:12:04 AM PDT by T-Bird45
They do now.
I don't know of any laws requiring gun dealers to keep your gun purchases confidential. It's usually bad for business to tell people what one of your customers bought without good reason, but I don't think it's illegal.
I wouldn't think the gun dealers would be required to release the information of who bought a particular type of gun without a court order, but I really don't know.
I'm pretty sure that there is no enumerated right to not have another private individual reveal what they sold to you.
If I was the parent of one of those kids, I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if your rights were “violated”.
When it comes to innocent kids, I don’t care if the cops have to fly the black flag.
If my kids were murdered and the police were wasting time harassing innocent law-abiding citizens while the trail of the murderer went cold I'd be FURIOUS.
Profiling.
It is “likely” that is came from a source nearby.
Suuuuuuure you would.
Here is your answer from the article:
Authorities believe the killers are from the Weleetka area, given the remote location of the girls' slayings. They said the killers had to be familiar with the area — N. 3890 Road (County Line Road) north of Coleman Road, about four miles northeast of Weleetka.
Wonderful! I can picture your armband right now!
Improbable, but possible.
I said I was conflicted about how I would act. The devil is in the details. The police have the right to ask; the citizen has the right to refuse. I see nothing wrong with that.
The way crimes usually get solved is the police eliminate one suspect after another until there’s only one left. Makes it kind of hard on him if the guilty party was never a suspect, though
Because the OSBI has to be actively doing something when the reporters write this story, don't they?
It's nice to be able to fall back on the basis that 15 "gun nuts" are posing an obstacle to you solving the murder because they're 'hiding behind silly constitutional protections.'
Wouldn't it be nice if a reporter would actually ask these obvious questions? I mean, if the case has gone cold, and the only way to find the killer is a gun registry, then we need a FEDERAL sweep of all 40 cals, don't we? NOW!
A big problem is, do you trust the ‘ballistic fingerprint’ voodoo enough to risk it? I don’t..
How about if they just force every male in a city to undergo DNA testing after any rape? At least that’s accurate, and about as ‘fair’.
The right thing would be to voluntarily submit to testing. But a person has the right not to, and it may not be because he's guilty. Also, the police have been known to fudge the data, so in any confrontation with the police, I would get some legal advice and weigh my options carefully.
Brilliant. Criminals plan to kill their victims out in remote locations because they're local and planning ahead, but also plan ahead and buy their guns legally and locally, filling out all the forms and eagerly turning in their guns for ballistic testing after the murder.
I am not too sure what your point is... isn't that what the police is doing now? They are trying to find the murder weapon.
.40 cals are very popular with Law Enforcements Agencies.
Do they check their own guns?
Check the story again... so far all requests are voluntary.
But it isn't an all out ballistic testing of every single weapon in the county... it is a specific, narrow range of caliber handguns. Aren't you going a little overboard here?
I would think if the police is taking a drastic step like this... it means there is little or no forensic evidence to go forward with...
The Pennsylvania State Police maintain such a database. The courts ordered them to stop. The PSP simply refused. How they can defy a state court? They did.
Incidentally, the PSP did the same thing. They denied that their ‘database’ was a ‘registry’. Semantic gamesmanship.
I have several new, unfired weapons. I would definitely not volunteer them regardless of the circumstances.
Then there’s the possibility that the murderer:
1. bought the gun prior to arriving in town, bought a gun from a Saturday night special or was merely passing through
2. it’s an illegal alien who bought the gun in Mexico
AND this search makes the idiotic assumption that legal gun purchasers are criminals (most criminals don’t buy guns legally).
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