Posted on 06/23/2016 5:20:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Family members set to inherit a stockpile of guns and ammunition, worth millions of dollars, plan to destroy the weapons "to send a message," their attorney Daniel Brookman told ABC News today.
"They want these instruments of death to be destroyed," Brookman said. "They dont want these weapons out on the street."
Jeffrey A. Lash, of Pacific Palisades, California, died last summer of natural causes, but left behind a stockpile of more than 1,500 guns, 6.5 tons of ammunition and nearly $250,000 in cash, according to local ABC-owned station KABC-TV. All of the purchases were legally made, KABC reported.
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To what imaginary audience are they sending said message?
Folks, be consistent. The potential for misuse of all that cash is worse than the guns. Burn it! Better yet, give it to me. I’ll make sure it gets disposed of properly.
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paraphrase of a wealth idiom: Armed to unarmed in three generations.
I'll buy and flatbed and come and remove those gas guzzlers for free and take them off their hands... ;-)
hehehe....silly heirs could end up owing more than the 250k when all is tabulated.
All it would take to stop the destruction would be one heir getting an injunction against destroying estate assets.
Will they be taxed on the value of the weapons that they destroy? If so, will they proudly pay it with a pious smirk on their faces?
stupid is as stupid does.
shame that stupidity was the genetic winner in this family
Anyone planning to actually witness the destruction of those guns? Might just be a publicity issue anyway, calling their bluff may cause them to change their mind. “Millions of dollars” don’t easily get destroyed unless you have a lot of extra cash on hand.
“.......left behind a stockpile of more than 1,500 guns, 6.5 tons of ammunition and nearly $250,000 in cash,”..........
Personally, I could care less what they do with the guns and ammo but I’d bet the family does NOT BURN the $250,000 in cash.
“He should have left everything he had to the NRA or a worthy charity.”
Best idea, yet.
Will they be incinerating the $250,000.00 to protest our worldly attatchment to wealth and materialism?
Nah, didn’t think so...
DESTROY CUTLERTY!
Man kills himself with kitchen knife in a Fontana Target store Mar 30, 2016
I assume they’re keeping the cash.
One of many axioms:
How to turn a fortune into a pittance.
Give it to relatives.
I'm sure they'll be able to deduct it as a loss...and save on taxes.
So my guess is that these do-gooders...cough, cough...have a BIG DEM connection.
I doubt 1,500 guns and 6.5 tons of ammo would amount to a rounding error in the FReeper universe.
Have you looked at the pile of guns? It looks like what they collect and proudly display after a gun buyback in Newark or Camden New Jersey. (Mostly long guns and a few rusty or broken handguns. Who ever knew that the residents of Newark and Camden were so heavily into deer hunting and target shooting?)
Long guns have practically no value on the street. @ $200 each average (optimistic) per legal long gun sale x 1500 = $300,000. My guess is they have found some way to use this as a strategy to to avoid taxes on the rest of the estate.
I notice they didn’t destroy the cash.
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