If any of them (or your wife) is saying that everyone even peripherally involved is automatically considered a suspect they were ridiculously wrong.
bingo
Secondary question:
If you report finding a gun to the police, and no on claims it after 60 days, you get to legally keep it (or sell it). Guns are worth at least a few hundred dollars. So a nice windfall for the rinder, right?
And if it’s a murder weapon that’s vital to convicting a murderer, you are probably entitled to a reward from the State Crime Fund.
I think that was a .22 pistol that was claimed to have been stolen from Ronald Reagan. Pretty wacky.
Not at all - she just had verified the accuracy (which is what we were last discussing) of some of the cases (as portrayed on shows) that she had recognized. (By the nature of the job she can also recognise accurate portrayals of the lab results - turn around times etc) Some shows are very accurate while others not so much. None of them can be exhasutively detailed however - there just isn’t time.
You may end up eating your hat. I’ve read of a case where a woman called police that she found cocaine in her car and they arrested her when she handed it to them.
For possession.
First of all, it could be construed as abuse of 911, since neither is, in any way, an emergency. And, the fact that “you didn’t do anything wrong” is certainly not a guarantee that you will not at least need to very expensively lawyer up, nor that you will be detained as a suspect, if not criminally charged in some way.
Leaving a loose gun on the street for hours is preferable? Or a lump of a very expensive drug?
In all states?
who said anything about your house?
Anyway, Preppers like to have hidden stores of survival stuff. A gun and ammo certainly qualifies.
But again, you are taking this out of context as i said that calling the police was the best idea.
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“Machiavellian” and the assertion that cops think it’s OK to lie to suspects about virtually anything are not much better and are your opinion rather than being factual. Keep your responses factual in this forum or you may receive a warning.
And bumping a post that already received a mod note to agree with it is almost the same as making such a post your self. Don’t do this again.
Colibri
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Don’t touch it. The worst the police would do is take your fingerprints, then verify they’re not on the gun. They’re just as interested in eliminating people as suspects as they are in finding the guilty. In fact it makes their job easier if they can eliminate innocent persons as quickly as possible.
This would be different between jurisdictions but I know in mine they would never sell, auction or give away a gun once it’s in possession of the police. If for no other reason it’s that for the life of that gun anything bad that happens will be traced back to the authorities. “Gun once in police possession used to murder a van full of nuns.”
You did, unless you are quibbling that your home might be in an apartment instead of a house. (You realize we can actually still read the posts you made earlier in the thread, don’t you?)
Yes, lots of people have guns and ammo legally. But depending on the state, you might still need to establish that you came into possession of the gun legally - which you hadn’t. Also depending on state, you might need a license or to show that it was registered.
You didn’t actually say calling the police was the best idea. You suggested that taking it and concealing it in your house together with ammo might also be an acceptable course of action, rather than the ridiculous and foolish one that it is. What would be the rationale for taking it? It makes no sense, unless you were just trying to obtain a free gun.
The police are prohibited from using physical or psychological coercion when conducting police interrogations. A confession or evidence that results from coercive tactics is inadmissible at trial. The police, for example, may not use torture techniques, threats, drugging, or inhumane treatment during an interrogation. The police, however, can use lying, trickery, and other types of non-coercive methods to obtain a confession from a suspect.
Source:
http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-rights/faqs-police-interrogations.html
Some real life examples
https://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/6909121-Case-law-on-police-deception/
Moderating
That’s not what you said in your post.
At any rate, the discussion of how untrustworthy the police are belongs in another thread. If you wish to discuss this, start another thread in IMHO or Great Debates.
Colibri
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I said convicted, not arrested. I would still be interested in an actual cite.
Fine, I’ll expand it to “or convicted of misuse of 911” because they called it to report a loose gun or brick of cocaine. In that case, I’ll only eat a sock though, not a hat.
It is my understanding that there is no gun registration in the US of A ( except for full machine guns… maybe… )
It is my understanding that in the US of A there is no license needed to own a gun. ( except for full machine guns… )
There is no requirement that I need proof that my Dad gave me a shotgun or where it came from that I have ever heard of.
That may be required in the future judging by some posts I see elsewhere.
At this time I can give / buy a long gun from an individual and neither of us is required to tell anyone nor have proof. If were both reside in the same state, the same applies to hand guns.
Buying or selling commercially is different.
Newspaper? They still make those?
In my state that’s not true.
http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113
They’re trying to make it even stricter, too.