Oh My!

[Ivy Mike]

Hope they don't make it illegal to own a lot of pennies. I hope I don't need a license to take them to the bank and turn them in. California, what a joke.

Owning a bunch of pennies isn't illegal. What would be illegal is getting all those pennies and melting them down to get the copper and zinc. If they found out you were doing that, you'd have grumpy US Treasury guys knocking on your door, and rightfully so. You'd have broken the law.
The ATF got involved because of a tip about this person possibly conducting transfers outside the scope of his FFL.
California might get involved or they might simply let the ATF handle things as it was a federal law that was broken.

of course, the whole scrap penny thing could be solved by simply discontinuing production of the penny and let people remove them from circulation. But that's a different thread.

 

[SharpDog]

That's amazing considering he was arrested and released on bail.

It's California, they probably renewed the voter registration for the corpse

 

[Frank Ettin]

There is obviously a lot we don't know about this.

This thread has been nothing more than a lot's of speculation and pretty much no facts.

No one seems to know what the gun owner was charged with, if anything, or what the legal basis for the seizure might be. Even in California it's not against the law to own a lot of guns. It's entirely possible that there was a good reason, and it's also entirely possible that there was not. We don't know and speculation without facts won't increase our knowledge.

Folks here are mostly disposed to believe that there was no legal basis for the seizure, but a belief is not evidence.

Without some reliable facts there's really nothing to discuss.