Government drops effort to prosecute ABQ gun collector

Curly1 · 07-20-2015, 11:48 PM

http://www.abqjournal.com/612698/new...collector.html

Edward Tinker · 07-21-2015, 12:28 AM

Well, I hope Bob got everything back, I'd heard he got some, but all and in the same shape?

Dwight Gruber · 07-21-2015, 05:10 AM

Could somebody please recap the story, for those of us who refuse to play the Albuquerque Journal's data mining game?

--Dwight

alvin · 07-21-2015, 08:15 AM

Basicly, government searched the collector's home and took away 1,600 firearms a few years ago. The charge was that he smuggled guns into US from Canada. Now that charge is dropped.

For the reports then and now, there were comments in news. Two comments in the news were impressive. The first one was from an anonymous neighbor, she worried "there is a school nearby". Obviously thinking a man having so many guns being a threat to public safety. Another impressive comment is "90% were not antique guns, but C&R still under NFA control".

While US police were busy on this, I read a piece of news from Beijing, Chinese police were also busy recently -- they confiscated 30,000 guns in the city this month, from pistols to machine guns. That's an astonishing number, consider guns have been under strict control over more than half an century now. But reading more carefully is even more astonishing "what?? all BB guns?"

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Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	Could somebody please recap the story, for those of us who refuse to play the Albuquerque Journal's data mining game? --Dwight

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alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	Basicly, government searched the collector's home and took away 1,600 firearms a few years ago. The charge was that he smuggled guns into US from Canada. Now that charge is dropped. For the reports then and now, there were comments in news. Two comments in the news were impressive. The first one was from an anonymous neighbor, she worried "there is a school nearby". Obviously thinking a man having so many guns being a threat to public safety. Another impressive comment is "90% were not antique guns, but C&R still under NFA control". While US police were busy on this, I read a piece of news from Beijing, Chinese police were also busy recently -- they confiscated 30,000 guns in the city this month, from pistols to machine guns. That's an astonishing number, consider guns have been under strict control over more than half an century now. But reading more carefully is even more astonishing "what?? all BB guns?"