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Family Plans to Destroy Stockpile of Inherited Guns and Ammo Worth Millions, Lawyer Says.
ABC News ^ | Jun 22, 2016 | CATHERINE THORBECKE

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 don’t 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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KEYWORDS: ammo; banglist; firearms; madness
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To: carriage_hill

To what imaginary audience are they sending said message?


21 posted on 06/23/2016 5:30:18 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: carriage_hill

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.

=^)

CC


22 posted on 06/23/2016 5:30:19 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Cboldt

I hate autocorrect


23 posted on 06/23/2016 5:30:36 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: txrefugee

paraphrase of a wealth idiom: Armed to unarmed in three generations.


24 posted on 06/23/2016 5:30:38 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: carriage_hill
Please tell me they don't like Fossil Fuel Vehicles either. And Dad had a Hemi Cuda Convertible and 427 Baldwin & Motion Camaro they want to get rid of.

I'll buy and flatbed and come and remove those gas guzzlers for free and take them off their hands... ;-)

25 posted on 06/23/2016 5:32:00 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: Cboldt

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.


26 posted on 06/23/2016 5:32:10 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Cboldt

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?


27 posted on 06/23/2016 5:33:10 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: carriage_hill

stupid is as stupid does.

shame that stupidity was the genetic winner in this family


28 posted on 06/23/2016 5:33:34 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: P.O.E.

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.


29 posted on 06/23/2016 5:35:29 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Williams

“.......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.


30 posted on 06/23/2016 5:35:48 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: txrefugee

“He should have left everything he had to the NRA or a worthy charity.”

Best idea, yet.


31 posted on 06/23/2016 5:36:15 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: carriage_hill

****ing attention whores.

32 posted on 06/23/2016 5:36:26 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: carriage_hill
It's theirs.
Let them throw the entire collection on a bonfire.
The ammo too.

33 posted on 06/23/2016 5:37:10 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: carriage_hill

Will they be incinerating the $250,000.00 to protest our worldly attatchment to wealth and materialism?

Nah, didn’t think so...


34 posted on 06/23/2016 5:37:29 AM PDT by diplomatic_immunity
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To: carriage_hill
"They want these instruments of death to be destroyed," Brookman said.
"They don’t want these weapons out on the street."

DESTROY CUTLERTY!

Man kills himself with kitchen knife in a Fontana Target store Mar 30, 2016

35 posted on 06/23/2016 5:38:41 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: carriage_hill

I assume they’re keeping the cash.


36 posted on 06/23/2016 5:38:51 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Mouton

One of many axioms:

How to turn a fortune into a pittance.
Give it to relatives.


37 posted on 06/23/2016 5:40:23 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: mkjessup
If the guy has that much just in guns and ammo, guess how much the entire estate is worth.

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.

38 posted on 06/23/2016 5:40:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: carriage_hill
"Easily enough to re-supply all of the FReepers who've lost their in boating accidents. Heh."

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.

39 posted on 06/23/2016 5:41:05 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: carriage_hill

I notice they didn’t destroy the cash.


40 posted on 06/23/2016 5:41:17 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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