Posted on 02/01/2022 5:14:14 AM PST by marktwain
I am reminded of an old Bill Mauldin cartoon from around 1969.
A criminal is walking away from a mob who is lynching a handgun. He says...”They let me go and lynched my gun!”
He was awesome under pressure.
Dominick Black purchased the rifle, and had the strongest claim to it. He signed on to the destruction disposition.
He had a slight legal potential of being charged with a straw purchase if Kyle ended up with the rifle.
I have never had a weapon returned to me by authorities. Once they have it, they keep it.
Yep. He seems to be finally getting sound advice. Behaving like one who might have several multimillion dollar lawsuits in his future. GOOD CALL.
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When his civil cases get to trial, his destruction of the rifle will earn him no favor with a jury. If he is more concerned with his trial recovery than the bad message he’s sending about gun use, he can hide the gun away and then dispose of it in gun-favorable way AFTER the trial.
Strawman and non sequitur.
I was then tasked to sell it.
Stupid move. He should auction it off. He could raise hund reds thousands of dollars for the victims of Kenosha riots.
Strategically speaking, if the rifle is destroyed it can no longer serve as evidence, either in a civil suit or in a malicious federal indictment. In exchange, somebody will be out some ‘C’ notes. No contest.
However, its real value is not in “the” rifle, but in “the make” of the rifle. Since the manufacturer won’t want to be directly involved, a retailer of that make of rifle can raise its price, hold raffles, etc., “with a portion of the proceeds going to (whoever)”.
Not if it killed communists. Anything used to kill a communist is almost a holy relic.
“… if the rifle is destroyed it can no longer serve as evidence…”
While I can understand that, I also know the reputation of crime labs and evidence lockers when it comes to maintaining firearms, and destroying it might not be a bad option.
Keeping the side plate with the make, model and serial number from the lower receiver (machined to be just a simple flat piece of metal) and embedded in a block of Lucite might have been enough of a historical artifact for some type of use afterwards.
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