So, the actual negligent party gets off?
So, a man finds a gun in a bathroom. It was left there by a negligent police officer who follows bad advice you read on the internet. Anyway, the man took it home and intended to call the police but didn’t, fearing repercussions of some sort.
The man is facing 10 years for a game of finders keepers.
October 7th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
There is a crime of “theft of lost or misplaced property”. And why should the cop get “anything” other than internal discipline? If I leave my cellphone unattended and some slime “keeps it safe” for six weeks until his family reports it to the police, should I get more than a nagging from my wife?
October 7th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Find an abandoned firearm, unload it and inert it. Remove the firing pin, super glue the firing pin, then throw it in the trash. If need be, disassemble the gun and disperse the parts among several spread out trash bins to inert it.
Really, it is the only decent thing to do. Left on its own, you never know when the gun could go on a spree.
October 7th, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Should have sold it at the police “gun buy back” program.
October 7th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Good point Bob, as we all know the *safest* place to fence a hot gun is the police.
October 7th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
How in the fuck is finding a lost gun larceny? An abandoned gun isn’t property of anyone. The cops act of leaving it in a public bathroom is what deprived him of it, not any action of the defendant.
October 8th, 2013 at 8:46 am
There is a difference between abandoned and lost or misplaced, in the law, and generally in most of society outside the ghetto (where it’s abandoned if it’s not nailed down and it’s not nailed down if you can pry it loose with a crowbar ;)).
But that’s not what singes my turnips. It’s that because it’s a gun every motherf***er thinks he can just take it from you. For the children!
October 8th, 2013 at 9:25 am
“Internal discipline” sounds intensely personal. Is an incision made, or is it orificial discipline?