Over here our friend TV time is in a pretty big kosher dill and is looking for answers. The right answers. Wants to find out what the right thing to do is. I post to him, and find out that the thread is closed because of what lawyers for the paper might think. About what? About somebody looking for how to legally take care of this situation? About how anybody else might be able to legally take care of a similar situation?
Yes there were some dumbass answers in there, meant to be humorous, but could result in disaster. But who cares? Let’s leave TV Time hanging in the wind over a touchy subject because of image. Let’s close the thread so we can pretend that it never happened so we can get to REALLY important knowledge like recipe exchanges, car repair, best band names, metallurgy, and how to clean jewelry.
Yeah, I’m real fucking impressed to be a part of this board right now.
TV time your email isn’t listed so if you see this, send me an email please.
I’m frankly surprised it wasn’t closed earlier. Discussion of illegal activities, including federal offenses, is verboten on this board. Having a sawed-off shotgun definitely qualifies.
This is not about someone wanting to know how to engage in illegal activities. This is about someone who unwittingly did and was wanting to correct it. What has been posted is already there. It is on record. Is that how this place works? Once someone has done something illegal they are cast aside, even though they want to know how to do what is right?
How many threads are there about how to get out of a traffic violation, or other misdemeanor that go on for eternity? It’s not about the law or how to get around it.
Actually, it looked like TV time, did get some suggestions on what he could do.
Some legal, some not.
He wasn’t left hanging.
I think it has been policy on this board to close threads that have topics that may leas to illegal activity.
I know there have been threads asking about how to beat urine test, that have been closed.
This doesn’t seem to be any different.
From what I read, he was in a poker game, the other guy ran out of $$, and the OP agreed to accept the SASG in lieu of cash. (his reasoning was something about how he’d prefer some one loosing at poker to be unarmed).
but I certainly didn’t get that it was an “unwitting” acquisition.
And the points so far? He has an illegal weapon and wants to know what to do with it. He’s not trying to beat the system. He’s not asking how to do illegal things. He wants to know what to do. Semantics aside, he wants to do what is what is right. Why is this a bad question?
Well, probably what is right is to bring it directly to the nearest law enforement agency.
Actually TV Time wants to know how to get rid of it without getting in trouble. Which is exactly what I’d do in the same situation.
I can see why the thread got closed.
well, it seems to me that you portrayed the situation in an erroneous manner. It wasn’t an ‘innocent mistake’. He knowingly acquired something illegal then came here and wondered what to do with it.
My advice in general would be “don’t acquire things that you know to be illegal to possess”.
And he kept insisting that he ‘didn’t want to be out the $50’. (in response to things suggesting that he destroy the item).
So, he aquires something he knows to be illegal, comes here and posts “what should I do w/it?” and to the suggestions that he should simply destroy/dispose of it, he responds “I don’t want to be out the $$”.
Gee. perhaps he was looking for some way to recoup his investiment into an illegal item.
I dunno, Turbo. I’m all about fighting ignorance too, but what was being discussed in that thread was a bit more serious than a traffic violation. I’m surprised the thread wasn’t deleted, not just locked. And I’m surprised the OP didn’t receive a warning of some sort.
You had people in that thread advocating throwing it in a lake, in somebody’s yard, filing off the serial numbers, etc. - obviously the thread was a prime candidate for closure/deletion.
I’m glad I know a bit more about gun disposal, though - might come in handy someday.
Good god. Could the rules be any clearer? Don’t ask for advice on how to break the law, and don’t give advice on how to break the law. And while bitching about those two rules is permissible, it is pretty damn whiny.
Personally, though, I’d be worried about which police department to turn it into: Denver cops are notorious assholes about firearms and while the vast majority of police departments would just accept it, unasked, imagine the grief you could get were the cops inclined to give you trouble.
Were I TVTime, I’d take it down to the Colorado Springs police department.
