Truth, Lies and In Between

And in the bullshit column for today, we have this crap from an over-reaching police department. They are violating the 4^th Amendment and if it were me they pulled this shit with, they’d end up with my name on the police building after I got done with that city.

Pay attention to the last paragraph that I highlighted. Public safety does not outweigh a person’s liberty. It’s not about inconvenience, it’s about freedom. There was no crime committed. He handed over his pistol to the cops as a precautionary measure.

Don’t get me wrong, I support the police overall. They just scare the crap out of me with the over-reach they have in our lives. Police state comes to mind.

Gun owner says police violating his rights
By Andrew Barksdale

George Boggs thought he was doing police a favor last week when he handed over the firearm he kept in his car after he was in a wreck.

Boggs has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and he wanted his handgun secured while he went to the hospital, he said. The permit requires him to notify police of his weapon.

On Monday, when he went to the Fayetteville Police Department to retrieve his gun, he couldn’t get it back. He was told that police first wanted to fire the gun to see if the spent shell casing and round would match data in a nationwide ballistics inventory used to solve crimes.

The gun is scheduled to be test-fired today, he was told.

Boggs complained to police supervisors that his new gun has never been fired. The ballistics test, he said, would diminish the value of the .45-caliber Taurus Millennium he bought last month for $399 at a local gun store.

He said the city is violating his Fourth Amendment rights that protect him from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Police defend their decade-old policy of checking most handguns that come into their custody – no matter the reason – to see if they have been used in a crime. They say public safety outweighs any inconvenience to the owner.

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