Posted on 12/13/2005 6:14:03 AM PST by Abathar
You don't think any of them will show up at auction.......do you? If they do , only the garbage items will survive after the boys sift through them for their own collection.
*snicker* Knowing the reputation of a few of the sheriffs there I think you might be right.
If they're not properly secured, some enterprising fellow may liberate them from those who perpetrated this unconstitutional seizure.
"$1,000,000"
Must have been two hundred Barret .50's :-)
Oh, poor baby. He molested "relatives," meaning kids, for several years. He pled guilty to the charge, and so is a convicted felon.
He loses some of his constitutional rights for being a convicted felon. Tough nuts for him! I have no sympathy for a child molestor.
can't have them at their residence (at least, that's how a friend had to deal with it)
easy way to find out tho, if they're really machine guns they will be registered with atf, or it won't matter whose they were, at the very least he'd get hit with a conspiracy charge.
They showed quite a few of the confiscated firearms on the local Indy news:
A few AK variants.
An AR-15 or two.
Looked like several SMLEs and some other bolt action rifles.
And quite a few P-38s.
All in all, mostly military/curio stuff.
Hopefully these won't be destroyed.
No sympathy for him by me either. One other thing. I wonder if his wife has a tax stamp for those machine guns. If not she is in a whole lot of trouble.
The guns weren't on the street were they? Get the guns off the street has to rank right in with the stupidest statements of all times. I have never actually seen guns on the street unless maybe someone accidentally dropped one. I have never actually seen a gun wandering down the street unattended. I guess I just don't live in the right area. All the guns in my area are inanimate objects and can't move without assistance.
if they are really machine guns that were seized its very possible for it to be a million dollar collection. thompsons or BARs, or maybe an mg34 or mg42 or a maxim that are atf registered can be worth $20,000- $30,000 each easily, if not more.
But I'd say it's unlikely.
Another curious aspect of the story is that it's claimed the house was "unoccupied", but the fire was started by putting hot ashes in a box.
Why would there have been hot ashes in an unoccupied house?
wife doesn't want him smoking at their house?
i know mine makes me go out to the garage.
Guns owned by people who plead guilty to child molestation, should be immediately transferred to their heirs upon incarceration in advance of execution.
That would make the "possession" issue moot.
Some full auto weapons run well into the 10 and 20 thousand dollar each range. If he had a preponderance of these style of weapons it is not that much of a stretch. I have a friend that just paid over $15,000 for a suppressed full auto MP5.
Ya see,,, Adolph Hillary style gun laws really do stop criminals from owning guns in the first place.
/sarcasm ....as if ya really needed it.
The weapons include military rifles from World War I and World War II, handguns and two machine guns, the sheriff's department said.
Even if we value the two machine guns at $50,000 each, that still would require the other weapons to appraise out at $4500 each.
The claim is that most of the rest are WW1 and WW2 weapons. Those in my collection in that category run less than a tenth of that price.
On a different subject, did your friend have to get two permits from ATF - one for "full auto" and another for "suppressed"?
Could be. But that would be another hole in the "unoccupied" theory.
These have to be really some guns to be that valuable. For example, a brand new M1-A runs for about $1,500, depending on the model.
Leaving aside the part about being a felon in possession of one hell of a gun collection, anybody who puts hot ashes in a cardboard box is an idiot.
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