Those who don’t report weapons stolen from their homes will be hit with a $10,000 penalty.
What if you have 50 or 100 guns and do not even know one is missing until weeks or months later?
Clearly Unconstitutional.
Those who don’t report weapons stolen from their homes will be hit with a $10,000 penalty
Weasel bastards! That’s for when they come to confiscate guns and you tell them it was stolen or lost it!
How will they know that you have had a gun stolen and not reported it if not for a national database of guns and owners and periodic inspections?
I am just wondering how all these fines and penalties do not constitute a bill of attainder?
“What if you have 50 or 100 guns and do not even know one is missing until weeks or months later?”
I recently went looking for a particular gun and panicked. It wasn’t with the others. It wasn’t with my shooting stuff. I couldn’t find it anywhere and suspected it had been taken. But, then would they leave several antique but serviceable guns? Perhaps they simply looked too unusual? Perhaps it was taken by a workman who searched my stuff while I was elsewhere on the property and he just took that one?
Then, I was getting ready to travel and had to hide the house gun...I selected the place where I’d previously hidden the missing gun...because I was about to travel.
So, should I have reported it missing? Then, unreported it?
Or longer. I have discovered some I forgot I even owned, years after last time I remembered seeing them. Moreover, you only report something "stolen" if you believe it was "stolen" otherwise you are committing the crime of filing a false report. If I didn't witness the crime, how in the h3ll would I know it was stolen and not merely misplaced or loaned out to a buddy or family member?
These laws generally state that you have to report it within a period from when they were stolen, and you knew they were stolen, or reasonably should have known they were stolen. Several cities in CA have them, none has been declared unconstitutional. Since it doesn’t affect your ability to keep and bear arms, I don’t know what the grounds for a challenge would be.