Seized guns, drugs go up in smoke

The Vindictor ^ | March 10, 2003 | PATRICIA MEADE

[MissTargets]

Mahoning County needs money so bad. They should be selling these "expensive" guns, instead of burning them up.

[MissTargets]

bang

[George from New England]

American citizens need arming. Someday we may have to protect ourselves from the imbeded enemy amoung us.

The PC crowd will never get it.

[FreeTally]

"It's not cause and effect,....

But what the heck, let's throw out this misnomer anyway

but prison studies show that drugs and alcohol are related to 90 percent of crimes committed," he said.

Related as in the person querried said they had used drugs or alcohol at least one time in their life, or perhaps, just the words of those wishing to remove responsibility for their actions from themself by saying "the devil made me do it".

[Atlas Sneezed]

Don't grieve for the waste of guns. They were all undoubtedly junk, as the cops surely swiped all the ones of value and quality to keep or sell for a little side income.

[Sparta]

The 7,687 items delivered today to a local steel mill to burn included 595 handguns and 158 rifles, shotguns and other firearms. The firearms had been stored at the department's vice squad in 29 plastic containers and three huge plastic recycling bins.

Why? They could have just sold them to me.

[MrLeRoy]

They should be selling these "expensive" guns, instead of burning them up.

Indeed. And did you notice that they stated the value of the drugs but not the guns? What's up with that?

[Lysander]

Indeed. And did you notice that they stated the value of the drugs but not the guns? What's up with that?

It is easier to get away with a lie about the value of the drugs. $2000 a pound? Maybe for premo bud. Not for stems and seeds!

[RonF]

Any of those guns that were legal should have been put up for auction, just like they do with any other legal thing that is seized pursuant to a criminal case (houses, cars, boats, TV's, etc.). Any taxpayer in that county should have standing to file suit demanding that the county maximize their revenue opportunities and minimize county expenditures and taxes.

[FreeTally]

It is easier to get away with a lie about the value of the drugs. $2000 a pound? Maybe for premo bud. Not for stems and seeds!

When they say "street value", they typically mean "as sold in smaller quantites" as opposed to wholesale values. It appears here, they may have simply determined the value based upon a 1/4 bag selling for $30-$35. $30 x 4 quarter bags = 120/oz. $120 x 16 = $1,920 per lb.

They never use wholesale prices because the ignorant public equates higher dollar values with a more devious person who mus be thrown in prison to protect all of society.

[battlegearboat]

Cops get their "throw downs" and the steel mill guys get the primo (they burn the rest).

Everybody's happy.

[Djarum]

The PC crowd will never get it.

That's because they are the enemy.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I feel so much safer now.

[vin-one]

or vice a versa, or however you say it,
cops always have the best stuff....
how much of that dope and drugs actually got burned up. or should I say destroyed.

[FSPress]

This was done and reported to make people equate guns with drugs!

[ActionNewsBill]

"We find guns on nearly every search warrant and during car stops," Powell said.

Does this concern anyone else? I can understand, to an extent, the fact that they can confiscate guns with a warrant, but during traffic stops?

[ActionNewsBill]

This was done and reported to make people equate guns with drugs!

Yep, that's pretty much the whole idea.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[jackbob]

...595 handguns and 158 rifles, shotguns and other firearms....

Why? They could have just sold them to me.

...and the drugs could have been sold the the libertarians. :{

[tacticalogic]

Numbers are like people. Torture them enough and they'll tell you whatever you want to hear.