Maybe a great estate sale

[leadcounsel]

That is a lot of guns. I feel that the police are doing the estate a service if they are properly handling, caring for, guarding and storing the weapons. If you were a relative, you would be happy they did this, because those guns left in an unattended residence would be gone in a day.

I suspect some of them will get *lost* though. Rounding out some police collections.

And they'll all be entered into the CA databases... naturally.

 

[Salmoneye]

Just took a turn for the surreal:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-guns-20150720-story.html

"The man’s mysterious past is the reason why his fiancée, Catherine Nebron, didn’t immediately report his death to authorities, her attorney said. Braun said the dead man, whose name he said he couldn’t remember, had been suffering from cancer.

On the Fourth of July, the man, Nebron and two friends were in the parking lot of Bristol Farms on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica when the man began feeling hot and sick, Braun said. They tried to cool him down with ice, but it didn’t work and he died, Braun said.

The fiancée wasn’t sure what to do with the body, but figured the same unnamed agency watching him would know that he died and would come for him, Braun said. Nebron parked the vehicle on Palisades Drive and left it because she “assumed they were tracking him,” the lawyer said.

The woman went on a trip to Oregon, Braun said, and returned to find the vehicle still parked in the same spot."

Much more at the link...

 

[Havok7416]

Wow

 

[SSN Vet]

oh bother...

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-guns-20150720-story.html

Several neighbors said the man was known only as “Bob” in the local area and described him as a gun fanatic who claimed to have worked covertly for either the FBI or the CIA. His fiancée had lived in the town home on Palisades Drive for years, they said.

“He'll say crazy things to people like he does night missions swimming to Catalina,” said one neighbor, who declined to give her name, saying she was afraid. “He would come … and tell us he would show us self-defense moves.”

An attorney representing the man’s fiancée said that he was the one who contacted police last week about the man’s death and the weapons at the home.

Hmmmm.......

 

[fireman 9731]

Maybe he was a fellow forum member...

But often, the truth is stranger than fiction.

 

[anothernewb]

I'm guessing - being in CA, they'll likely try to destroy the guns regardless of the outcome. That would be sad.

 

[JSH1]

For the people asking why the police took the guns:

The dead man "Bob" doesn't own the house, his fiancee does. If I understand California gun laws correctly, it would be illegal for her to maintain possession of the guns since they are not registered to her.

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

For the people asking why the police took the guns:

The dead man "Bob" doesn't own the house, his fiancee does. If I understand California gun laws correctly, it would be illegal for her to maintain possession of the guns since they are not registered to her.

Guy sounds like a kook.




And his fiance too. Who'd stay with a guy like that?

 

[ABTOMAT]

And his fiance too. Who'd stay with a guy like that?

What, no one on THR is married?

 

[dingo5]

I just hope these make it back to the marketplace and don't get melted down. I can see the state and/or federal officials threatening the fiancee with criminal charges (bogus or not) unless she releases all rights to the ammo and firearms to the government.

 

[Ibmikey]

By the time the police and property room people are done storing the weapons dumped in blue plastic barrels and handled by every lookie loo in the Dept. if they ever were released all will be in less than pristine condition. I worked for a PD...personal experience.