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MILLER: D.C. police damage soldier’s guns
The Washington Times ^ | 17 June, 2012 | Emily Miller

Posted on 06/18/2012 4:14:21 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: bjorn14
This is what I found concerning administration.

Article One, Section Eight of the United States Constitution grants the U.S. Congress "exclusive jurisdiction" over the city. The District did not have an elected municipal government until the passage of the 1973 Home Rule Act. The Act devolved certain Congressional powers to a local government administered by an elected mayor and a thirteen-member Council of the District of Columbia. However, Congress retains the right to review and overturn laws created by the council and intervene in local affairs.

Thus, unless the Constitution is amended, Congress has ultimate say. Of course we need a Congress with the stones to do it.

21 posted on 06/18/2012 8:13:17 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Wurlitzer

should come out of their union funds, not taxpayers.


22 posted on 06/18/2012 8:13:17 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Wurlitzer

It was not the taxpayers who damaged the gun but some government thug. . . . . .
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Only partially right, the taxpayers, the citizens of DC elected the Mayor who hired the police chief who hired the cop and did nothing about the delay of 2 years to give the guns back. The tax payers of DC need to pay higher taxes because of the mistakes of their employees. Perhaps then they might hire a better mayor, police chief, etc.


23 posted on 06/18/2012 8:22:01 AM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig

Disagree completely! When we elect people we elect them to do a job and do it properly. We expect them to take an oath to do that job and support the constitution.

Unless you can prove the people of DC deliberately elected an official who would work against the constitution and other local laws the responsibility resides exclusively with the government scum who did this.

If we continue to allow anyone to hide behind someone or some government entity these situations will continue forever. Taxpayers did not take or deface his property but some government slug sure did. Fine the slug then fire them.


24 posted on 06/18/2012 9:00:59 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: marktwain

The DC gun laws are, of course, unconstitutional and reflect a tyrannical spirit.

It’s important for patriots to recognize, however, that there is only one legitimate authority in the District of Columbia, defined clearly in Article I§8: “[Congress shall have the power] To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States”.

EXCLUSIVE legislation. IN ALL CASES WHATSOEVER.

So, seeking redress from the DC government is pissing up a rope. Those clowns haven’t a shred of authority. Go to the source.


25 posted on 06/18/2012 4:04:09 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Anna Wintour makes Teresa Heinz Kerry look like Dolly Parton.)
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To: marktwain

Wow. DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s salary is reportedly 250K a year.


26 posted on 06/18/2012 4:25:54 PM PDT by Cap'n Crunch (Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time)
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To: Cap'n Crunch
RE: your tagline

Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time

Wow! Seriously?

27 posted on 06/18/2012 5:00:42 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Iron Munro
[They never expected anyone outside the PD to ever see the guns again so they didn’t care if their markings violated policy or not.]

Right. They planned to stall until Lt. Kim gave up and went away. Then the collection would have been distributed like spoils of war. Some weapons would probably end up on the street.

28 posted on 06/18/2012 6:02:09 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: marktwain
These are the same police and gubment officials who loudly complain that they don't get no respect.

Why should the average citizen have respect for the law, when the average gubment lackey has none?

29 posted on 06/18/2012 8:33:34 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day. Another small provocation. Another step closer.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It’s disgraceful what the faux-soldiers did to the Real McCoy.


30 posted on 06/18/2012 9:34:11 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: COBOL2Java
A plastic tie strap, plastic tag, and a Sharpie is all that's needed to properly label a gun. Of course that would make borrowing it slightly inconvenient.

If you are ever offered the choice of keeping your gun in an armory, don't. They get used, lost, or damaged worse than those.

31 posted on 06/18/2012 11:34:44 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: marktwain
Similar scenario happened to my mother in Florida. My sister, an adult (and a 1st class idiot), caused a bit of a domestic scene that neighbors reported to the cops. The cops confiscated my mother's 1950's Browning 2 shot semi auto 12 GA trap / skeet gun for no lawful reason.

My mother being in her late 60's tried to get it back numerous times. There was always someone else in another department and another location with another form to fill out (like find a receipt to prove you purchased the gun 50 years ago in another state).

She finally gave up trying to get it back. I suspect some clepto cop eyed a rare Browning and took it for his own collection - bastards. We didn't have a senator step up to make the cops give our heirloom back. I learned how to shoot on the gun and it was supposed to stay in the family, passed from one crack shot to the next.

32 posted on 06/19/2012 12:49:30 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Iron Munro

“They never expected anyone outside the PD to ever see the guns again so they didn’t care if their markings violated policy or not.”

Somebody was marking dibs on their future drop gun.


33 posted on 06/19/2012 2:16:27 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: BuffaloJack; All

Damn canoes!!! ;-)


34 posted on 06/19/2012 4:31:05 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: uncommonsense; All
The cops confiscated my mother's 1950's Browning 2 shot semi auto 12 GA trap / skeet gun for no lawful reason.

I have ceased being surprised at how common this sort of legalized theft has become. I first learned of it about 15 years ago when I was teaching Arizona CCW classes. Los Angeles police had an "informal" policy that any gun they came across, no matter what, was confiscated, and only returned if the owner got a court order for them to do so.

As the liberal judges in Los Angeles had a policy of not giving court orders for the return of firearms, and the attempt would cost hiring a lawyer for a couple of thousand dollars, it became legalized theft on a large scale.

Over the years, I have found that it happens all over the country on a fairly regular basis, though in most places a court order to return the firearm can be obtained with far less problems than in LA.

35 posted on 06/19/2012 4:35:22 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: BuffaloJack

I think I’d be suing the DC police department.


That should be the PIG department.


36 posted on 06/19/2012 10:35:06 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: houeto

Rush Limbaugh frequently ends his sentences with prepositions, just like Winston Churchill used to. Aside from that they’ve got NOTHING in common. I like Rush but to compare him to Churchill gravely diminshes the accomplishments of the once Prime Minister.


37 posted on 06/19/2012 10:46:54 AM PDT by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: MeganC

“This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”

Or words to that effect.


38 posted on 06/19/2012 11:01:53 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: BuffaloJack

“It’s too bad I lost it last summer in a canoe accident.”
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It is amazing how many of us gun owners are simply unable to use a small boat or canoe without turning it over and dumping everything. I’ll bet it happened in very deep water with a soft mud bottom too.


39 posted on 06/19/2012 2:25:11 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: marktwain

The victim

40 posted on 06/19/2012 2:51:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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