Any Veterans here have military style rifles? Be careful who you ask to help move.

[walnutred]

Police: Family worried after finding military weapons in elderly couple'''s Montgomery County home [Video]

Veteran had a few military style rifles, all I saw were old bolt actions, and a few other military souvenirs. People helping him move call the police, firearms are confiscated and he is admitted to a phyc ward for evaluation. Not because he threatened anyone or did anything odd, just for possession of what turned out to be legal items.

If he had lived in a Red Flag state just the statements of a couple of his neighbors would likely have been enough to spark this event.

 

[Trooperdan]

Hopefully, there is MUCH more to this story! I cannot beleive someone was submitted to a psych eval for no more reason than quoted here! If "red flags" laws become fact this will only be the tip of the iceberg of confiscation cases!

 

[Fishinfool]

Pathetic is the word that comes to mind. I hope they change their will, disinheriting the family, and leave anything of value to the local cat shelter.

Just more "stupid people tricks"....

Larry

 

[walnutred]

The victim was released with no charges filed at this time. Had any of that ordnance pictured been live I don't think that he would have been released and I'm not sure the police would have been stacking it in the back yard.

 

[wetdog1911]

Pathetic is the word that comes to mind. I hope they change their will, disinheriting the family, and leave anything of value to the local cat shelter.

Just more "stupid people tricks"....

Larry

My thoughts exactly! Jeez, with family like that, they may have already been cut out of any will. Now, it's for sure and for certain!

Rob

 

[Jessie]

We are living in interesting times.
People need to stay informed and active/vocal or else others dictate the stories and consequences.
I would think the shells were replicas or deactivated?
Only one side heard so far.

 

[DeathGrip]

Crazy is collecting cabbage patch dolls. This guy was a vet and probably wouldn't have a collection like that if he was trouble. Just listening to the neighbors makes me think they might be the crazies.

As usual the police have no time to respect the guns and just pile them up like fire wood.

Guilty or not, To bad so sad.

 

[Bat Guano]

I think this foolishness is going to be thoroughly weaponized by ex-partners, people who dislike you for reasons known only to them, or anti-gun people who see you take out a cased firearm to the car.

Worse, EVERYBODY involved—police, courts, your dog—will overreact to show how politically correct and diligent they are by making your life hell. All predicated on what you MIGHT do....with little or no basis for it. No need for any probable cause. Anybody can alledge anything.

We are already a low-trust society. Now add "informers" to the mix.

 

[yaktamer]

I can understand people being a little freaked out by the explosive devices before they are confirmed to be inert, but this?

Reporter: "Even a couple of SWORDS!!!!!!!!" Brother.

 

[Golddollar]

This confirms that it's a good thing I load firearms in my car with the garage door closed.

 

[Doug M.]

Wow. That's not much of an "arsenal", and frankly, the ignorant over-reaction is far more frightening than the "arsenal". I don't own near as many firearms, but like almost everyone I know professionally and most of my friends most likely have a lot more ammo. I'd say his family need to be cut out of the will and he needs to prepare to leave his estate to pro-gun civil liberties organizations.

We saw a collection a few days ago in the property room, brought to the office by a man who ended up on the wrong side of what appears to be a frivolous protection order proceeding - took a 4 horse trailer for him to bring it all, and 2 hours of OT for a deputy and the property clerk to catalog and store.

There is a hidden lesson here - don't be so obviously eccentric that people leap to such moronic conclusions.

 

[jimmyj]

Do not let people know what you have. Not even your friends, as you don't know who their friends are.

 

[Rudi]

Incredible! So many drive bys done with Mausers and such. We are in grave danger.

 

[GaryS]

Don't forget the drive by bayonetings and sword slashings.

Incredible! So many drive bys done with Mausers and such. We are in grave danger.

 

[vonn]

Hate that this happened but I think it may just be getting started. Guilty until proven innocent is not my America! We see more of this attitude daily.

 

[film495]

I would so like to have one of those rifles, seeing them thrown in the yard and stacked up on top of one another was kind of hard to see ..

 

[Golddollar]

Do not let people know what you have. Not even your friends, as you don't know who their friends are.

This is why I don't hang any firearms on the walls or have firearms related emblems on my cars.

 

[vytoland]

...land of the free????.....

 

[BC38]

...We saw a collection a few days ago in the property room, brought to the office by a man who ended up on the wrong side of what appears to be a frivolous protection order proceeding - took a 4 horse trailer for him to bring it all, and 2 hours of OT for a deputy and the property clerk to catalog and store.

I thought one of our board members who is an expert on the legal system recently told us this wasn't happening.
Something about comparing the situation to balancing a yardstick with a penny...

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...how many bolt actions can this old guy fire at once?...

...you see these "arsenal" stories a lot...

...how many guns can anyone fire at once?...

...no logic...perhaps by design...