Man kills self over gun charge
In California, a gun owner’s suicide note after a case against him. No criminal record and he was charged with possessing tracer rounds, which is illegal in Cali.
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October 4th, 2011 at 11:24 am
wow, how illegal are we talking about?
I suppose that tracer ammo could theoretically start a brush fire, but so can cigarettes, auto crashes, and boy scouts.
Of course, we know that state is rife with “shoulder thing that goes up” syndrome, so it’s probably a felony.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:24 am
D’oh, finally clicked through and read the first word of the story.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:27 am
D’oh, read the first few paragraphs and found out he has an ex.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
One does wonder about the reasoning behind a tracer ban.
And one that, as California’s does, considers them a “destructive device” unless they’re for a shotgun.
The logic there is, as regards most California gun laws, baffling. Tracers and grenades and rockets and molotov cocktails … one of these things is not like the other.
(The other hilarity is that the statute attempts to ban dry ice “bombs”, except that it fails to do so.
It bans “Any sealed device containing dry ice (CO2) or other chemically reactive substances assembled for the purpose of causing an explosion by a chemical reaction”.
But a CO2 “bomb” works via mechanical expansion caused by evaporation – which is not a “chemical reaction” by most (any?) uses of the term.)
October 4th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
This is a tragedy and a travesty. An ex, who may or may not have been a bunny-boiler, makes an unsubstantiated claim of a death threat — with the possession of legal firearms, and the full force of the government drops on this guy’s head.
Based on the tenuous allegation, they tear apart his house and find something. In California, with its hyperactive legislature, it might well be impossible to be completely legal. For example: my Grandfather’s antique Carbon-Tetrachloride fire extinguisher.
One to six years for tracer ammunition? There have been double murderers that will serve less time.
This is injustice, writ large.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Well now, isn’t this the sort of result California was hoping for when they passed their gun laws?
October 4th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Sigivald, I’d hate to be the test case on that CO2 bomb law.
October 4th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Meh, wasted his death under that tree, he did. For those who are going to go out this way, it needs to be in a place forever associated with the abuse of 2A rights, such as the CA-AG’s office front steps. There needs to be press there, also. THEN, maybe his death might not have been wasted.
Most suicides are a waste. Death doesn’t have to be.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:23 pm
Ellen, you are half right. The fatal result of the anti-gun laws is certainly what the liberals and anti-gun activists hoped for, but it is not what Californians at large were promised. Which is why I think publicizing such tragedies can hurt the gun-control movement.
SM there has been prosecutions in California over CO2 poppers. See this … http://www.10news.com/news/20225875/detail.html
October 5th, 2011 at 9:51 am
I guess he was afraid that the .gov would destroy his home.