ATF Gun Confiscations Skirt Due Process

[JohnC]

ATF Gun Confiscations Skirt Due Process

The Washington Times article referenced in the above: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/6/atfs-latest-gun-grab/

Discuss....

Edited September 17, 2012 by JohnC

[RED333]

Damn what a shame, I was out boating over the weekend and it fliped over and all my firearms fell into the water, deep water.

[dralarms]

Hell, I've got all mine. They can have em once I have no more use for them. That might take awhile.

[vontar]

Damn what a shame, I was out boating over the weekend and it fliped over and all my firearms fell into the water, deep water.

I know that is true. I was with him.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Trigger time! I still have my weapons.

[DaveTN]

Nothing new here, asset forfeiture has been abused by corrupt Police agencies for years. Its theft and it’s pretty easy to identify the culprits, all you have to do is look at the top Command Officers and the DA’s. Tennessee is one of the worst states for it. What has been done about it with all the evidence of the cops lining up on I-40 to try to steal cash, or the video of the cops getting in a fight over whose territory it is? Nothing. And nothing will be done until the Feds come in and charge some of these criminal cops. Of course that is not likely to happen.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care if they seize the cars, guns, and houses of people involved in drug trafficking. But if there is not enough of a case to convict them, their property should be returned to them. They should have to do their job and make their case; or the perps walk free with all their stuff. And I think most cops do their job properly. Once a drug case is made gun and cash forfeiture is a given.

Sure, it would be easy to tell them you don’t have any guns. But they aren’t knocking on anyone’s doors and asking them. They are seizing them on search warrants and vehicle stops.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Holding until a case is done is one thing, then let the law show it's justification. Accepting garbage laws like this and

then kicking it down the road is no form of justice. It is a taking with very little attachment of justification involved.

DaveTN, why can't the state solve this problem? Just curious.

Any time the government passes a law that allows theft to be condoned, it is criminal activity. The law just means you

have sanctioned this activity by allowing tyranny to run rampant, instead of justice. That's what is wrong with the justice

system.