 |
|
02-18-2009, 01:31 PM
|
#1
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 640
|
I have a problem: serious
A close friend of 30+ years that I hunted, fished, shot with, and worked on our old Hot Rods, took his life last year, after a terminal diagnosis with cancer.
He shot himself with a S&W model 29. I saw this firearm (with case number on the bottom of the grip) at a police range several months later. I know the gun well. A Officer was firing the gun. Now, when my Friends Son, and Daughter requested the return of the firearm. The Dept. can't find it. I told them the Officer I saw with the weapon. He denies it violently. There are 3 other people who saw him with the firearm, who do NOT want to get involved. This is headed for a freaking mess. Should I have kept my mouth shut. I don't think so. I guess I'm to old, I just see things in B&W. I just brought it up here more or less to vent my feelings. Now, 99.9% of law enforcement are straight up people. But I just don't want or need a mess of them covering their own, with my A$$ in the middle. Opinions?
__________________
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Don't blame the tool, blame the fool.
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 02:13 PM
|
#2
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Aiea, Hawaii
Posts: 1,063
|
Hell yes you should bring that up. That's some farking BS
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 02:21 PM
|
#3
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: everywhere
Posts: 9,639
Liked 7 Times on 7 Posts
|
Do they really want it back? I'm personally not sure that I'd want the stigma attached to the gun in my safe.
Maybe one of our LEO members could tell you who's next in the chain to be contacted.
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 02:21 PM
|
#4
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Venezuela
Posts: 2,447
Liked 38 Times on 19 Posts
Likes Given: 13
|
You made the correct. Is not the gun itself, is the officer doing the wrong thing... I would push it hard to emend the thing and find the responsible (and make him pay for it) 
That's a crime, there's not a misunderstood or a mistake; He took inappropriately the gun, period.
__________________
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Dr. Adrian Rogers”
TELL CHAVEZ NOW! CLICK HERE
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 02:27 PM
|
#5
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 813
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by AsmelEduardo
You made the correct. Is not the gun itself, is the officer doing the wrong thing... I would push it hard to emend the thing and find the responsible (and make him pay for it)
That's a crime, there's not a misunderstood or a mistake; He took inappropriately the gun, period. |
I agree with Asmel!!!! 
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 02:30 PM
|
#6
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,437
Liked 1 Times on 1 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbyb13
Now, 99.9% of law enforcement are straight up people.
|
Way too generous a number considering Chicago, NY, Los Angeles, and Miami...
Fight it, but fight it correctly. Always have people and witnesses for everything. Start at the top. Don't work your way up to the top. Be a straight shooter. "This is my gun. This is the serial number. I tried to get my gun back, but was told it was lost.This officer has my gun. Can I please have my gun back?"
There's no need for accusations, just present the facts.
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 02:44 PM
|
#7
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,413
|
I think that you are kind of between a rock and a hard place. Although, I am not in law enforcement, I do have a BA in criminal justice. You will probably come up against a "big blue wall". Often, but not always, there is an "us against them" mentality amongst law enforcement officers. You can't blame law enforcement officers for watching each others back. You may want to leave that sleeping dog lay. It your call though.
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 03:55 PM
|
#8
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: everywhere
Posts: 9,639
Liked 7 Times on 7 Posts
|
Is this a small town department?
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 04:00 PM
|
#9
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 640
|
yes
Quote:
Originally Posted by Benning Boy
Is this a small town department?
|
Small town with 6 officers. Well 7 counting the Chief.
__________________
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Don't blame the tool, blame the fool.
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2009, 04:04 PM
|
#10
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Oregon
Posts: 19,870
Liked 1163 Times on 504 Posts
Likes Given: 2972
|
I really don't know what you should do. Of course, the right thing is to drive on and pursue this. But in a small town with six or seven cops, life could get very interesting in a bad way. Watch your six.
__________________
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” ― Samuel Adams
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
|
|
|
