Does this count as gun confiscation? Is this how it begins? Or was there some crime involved beyond the simple possession of these inanimate objects?Cops arrested a Brooklyn father, mother, son and family friend for keeping a huge arsenal of guns and knives inside their home across the street from an elementary school, officials said.
Officers seized 10 handguns, two assault rifles, nine regular rifles and nine shotguns yesterday from a house on West Street in Gravesend, where they arrested Thomas Siano, 57, his wife, Kathleen, 57, their son, Vincent, 30, and tenant Michael Poole, 27, on weapons charges.
Cops also grabbed a pile of pills, a large quantity of ammo, some homemade, and enough bladed weapons to make a pirate movie, including two daggers, a machete, a sword, a hunting knife, and an umbrella with a dagger hidden in the handle.
Where are all the 3%ers when we need them? Are there none in Brooklyn who can help protect the god-given rights of citizens?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
" Does this count as gun confiscation? Is this how it begins? Or was there some crime involved beyond the simple possession of these inanimate objects?"
ReplyDeleteIt depends on what the pills were.
And it's amazing how the anti-gun NYPD can take the time to separate "assault" rifles from "regular" rifles, but can't tell us what kind of pills they found.
"Where are all the 3%ers when we need them? Are there none in Brooklyn who can help protect the god-given rights of citizens?"
No 3%er would be caught dead in the fiefdom of Bloomberg.
Gotta love NY, where a handful of antique rifles are considered an "arsenal."
ReplyDeleteYep, this is exactly what happens when gun controllers have their way, and exactly why gun owner’s rights are worth fighting for. What is your opinion, MikeB (other than the 3% should have started a war against the NYPD)? Is this cool in your book?
ReplyDeleteNY Post: “including two daggers, a machete, a sword, a hunting knife, and an umbrella with a dagger hidden in the handle. “
Are knives illegal in NY too? Did they check the kitchen?
What is a “regular” rifle? Oh yeah, If they swapped out the folding stock on their mini-14 (pictured) with a solid wooden stock.
NY Post: “I was scared, but definitely glad the problem was solved," said another neighbor, "because I definitely don't want to bring up a family with those kind of people next door."
What do they mean by “those people”? I guess we know who called the cops now.
NY Post: “Their home sits across the street from PS 216, which has classes from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade.”
I take it NY has a gun-free radius around schools, because that’s the thing to do for the controllers, but I have never seen it applied within your own home.
This whole thing looks like an example of the other kind of “registration leads to confiscation”. Set up a registration scheme so that you can confiscate those who do not. One of the tell tale signs of this are registration renewals. Why the need for renewal if the point is a database for crime tracing? One more car analogy for you: you don’t get you door beaten down and your whole family arrested for not having proper tags on your car.
-TS
Scenes from an NRA wedding:
ReplyDeletehttp://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/for_hutaree_militia_ethos_extended_to_family_life.php
Remember how the gun fetishists got all in a tizzy when President Obama talked about those who "cling to guns and religion?"
--JadeGold
I see Jade is on his conflation horse again.
ReplyDeleteJadeGold, Thanks. A picture is worth a thousand words.
ReplyDeleteTS, Although I'm generally opposed to the gun obsession which unlike other hobbies, does result in problems, this case sounds like over-zealous cops harassing people. But, what are they to do? If there was some probable cause to enter the home, the excess of weapons has to be confiscated until the situation is assessed properly.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that if it were an "NRA Wedding" there would be an NRA flag or maybe some NRA posters or stickers and maybe even an NRA member present.
ReplyDeleteMikeB: “But, what are they to do? If there was some probable cause to enter the home, the excess of weapons has to be confiscated until the situation is assessed properly.”
ReplyDeleteDefine “excess”? And I really don’t like the fact that “probable cause” can be a neighbor claiming someone owns guns in their home, but that’s NYC for you. I am sure Bloomberg is happy to sic the SWAT team on them. Maybe there was some other probable cause here, but the article makes no mention of it.
-TS
Did you guys see what the NRA did recently?
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100331/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_bombings
Despicable, those NRA loons.
-TS
TS said, "Did you guys see what the NRA did recently?"
ReplyDeleteThanks for a good laugh.