We're the Only Ones Unregistered Enough

A top Dallas County sheriff's commander who was demoted for keeping an unregistered Thompson submachine gun in his office locker for about five years wasn't the only high-ranking officer who knew about the weapon, according to an internal affairs investigation.

Larry Locke was demoted from assistant chief deputy to captain in July by Sheriff Lupe Valdez for not properly securing the 1940s-era "Tommy gun" in the department's property room as required by policy.

...Locke failed to tell him the gun was not properly documented and was not registered with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...

The Tommy gun has since been registered and placed in the property room.

So if I keep an unregistered Tommy gun for five years, BATFU will be satisfied if my employer demotes me? How about if Wayne Fincher does? Or is that only an option for "The Only Ones"?

[Via Blackfork6]