Police have lost track of thousands of registered handguns because there's no system in place to keep tabs on the weapons of state pistol permit holders who die, The Journal News has found.Uh-oh, time for a new law...
The guns are a symptom of a larger administrative black hole brought on by outdated records and reliance on an "honor system'' requiring families to turn in weapons on their own after a licensed gun owner has died.
Westchester, Rockland and Putnam county licensees. Talk about a population where no problem exists. Keep 'em to yourself, New York heirs--you'll probably need 'em some day, and those who insist on your getting rid of them are no friends of yours.
The first thing that struck me about this was that if Michael Bellesiles conducted a survey of probate records, he's conclude that hardly anybody owned guns. That, and of course, the gall of these miserable upstart tyrants, who have failed the "honor system" of abiding by their oaths of office.
As I understand it, Michael Bellesiles also relies heavily upon records that do not actually exist, such as those destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. A true scholar such as himself would never let inconvenient facts to get in the way of his dogma.
ReplyDeleteDon't you love New York. My wife will have 15 days to turn my guns over to the Orange Co. Sheriffs Dept. should I kick the bucket. The Orange Co. Sheriffs Dept. will then keep them safe and sound until my wife can dispose of them, or "the only ones" who work there might just steal them.
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