jblonde009
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Get a lawyer.
I have a feeling your going to need one once the Sheriff gets wind of this. (ie revoked LTCF)
Irresponsible? Yes.
Criminal? Not IMO.
I can see the police securing it until the owner comes forward, just as a safety issue, but to refuse to give it back, let alone threaten to have someone's license pulled??
No.
How would it have been any different if the pistol had been left inside (on the counter, maybe), with the door unlocked, instead of hidden on the porch? And if it was hidden, how'd the police get it?
Unless they manage to come up with an actual criminal charge (and I can think of one possibility, though it's a bit of a stretch), I doubt they'll be able to sustain their possession when questioned by a judge.
Contact the head of the dep't: try to get a recording of your meeting or phone call (of course, if it's legal in PA), or write a letter. Maybe contact the city attorney.
And next time,
1) clean up your mess before you leave the house
2) think ahead & be more responsible with your firearm
About 20 min after i left i realized i forgot my sidearm at home which i always take with me.
No offense, but my suspicions get aroused by some of the stories from first-time posters. You know, things like: going camping at 11pm. After playing with fake blood. Not cleaning up the blood. Leaving without the gun, or securing it. A fella leaving without his keys? Cops finding a covered up gun on a porch? (Did the friend cover it with a fake-bloody rag?) Twenty minutes after his call to his friend, he arrives back to find 30 people, 11 cop cars, fire-trucks, and ambulances, and a news crew at his place? Wow, that was fast. Were they waiting in the wings? And, the cops said nothing to him about seizing the gun that evening--not until he calls the next morning.
Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes, so I can't really call BS.
If the story is true, I can't get that worked up about a covered up gun on a porch in a small town with maybe three cops. For twenty minutes?
Definitely makes a strange twitch in my nose too. Perhaps someone will file a FOIA request to confirm or deny the validity of the story.
Hey, at least the cover-up happened before government got involved, not after. Not like [strike]Brady[/strike] Surry County, VA. That's something, ya know.
jblonde009 said:so would you agree this is grounds for revoked LTCF?
But it is grounds for a good ass-chewing.MKEgal said:I can see the police securing it until the owner comes forward, just as a safety issue, but to refuse to give it back, let alone threaten to have someone's license pulled??
No.
Considering what the OP did to grammar and the English language in "reporting" this incident, the police should go back and confiscate his keyboard as well.