re: #90 lawhawk

It’s an open question whether this person was involved in an illegal gun sale, sham transaction, or had legally purchased guns stolen. The family is claiming that the guns were stolen, but so far there’s no evidence that the family ever reported the thefts (so far no indication that there was a police report made).

They’re claiming the guns were stolen from their car. If that’s the case, they didn’t do a particularly good job of securing those weapons either- a car isn’t exactly a secure location (break the window, that is if the doors aren’t unlocked). And law enforcement will look at that angle too - check for fingerprints and the like.

But for this person’s failure to secure the weapons, this guy wouldn’t have gotten his hands on the weapons that ultimately killed the two firefighters and injured several others.

Beginning to think the trick might not be so much reclassification/banning of certain firearms so much as requiring very expensive liability insurance and/or making gun owners criminally liable if their firearms are used in the commission of a crime, even if “stolen.”