Re: STOLEN RIFLE ALERT!!!! EVANSVILLE, IN!!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sean the Nailer</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NorthernBorn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">While I am just as outraged here as everyone else I do have a question....
Why wasn't the rifle secured in a safe or at least a security cabinet? I know I'm opening myself up to extreme hate flaming here but leaving it unsecured in a garage in just a rifle case might not meet the burden of "reasonable steps" at securing the rifle and leave you partially liable under current laws if it's used in a crime.</div></div>
A mans home is his castle.
The home was on private property.
The door was closed.
The door was locked.
At what point is the barrier between "right and wrong" established, let alone "upheld"?
Using your question in the reverse, maybe he's delinquent in NOT having a minefield around his house, preventing 'bad' people from accessing the building? Would that make it all better? </div></div>
Simple question based on the regs we have to follow down here. Just what we have to deal with. If I had left my rifle in that same situation and it was stolen and used by a felon to either slaughter a mess of deer or even kill a person I would be held partially liable for not properly securing the weapon in my household. I didn't write the bill or sign it into law but I do have to live by it which really isn't a problem for me.
On the other hand since you want to go a bit overboard in a knee jerk reaction with the minefield comment... Are you really so naive that you think a locked door or a window is more than enough to protect YOUR firearms that you have invested your hard earned money into? I sure as hell don't and now someone here knows for a fact that it isn't. Criminals don't care if it's private property. If the weapon had been stored in a safe or sturdy security cabinet chances are this post wouldn't even exist.
Was the rifle case visible through a window? If that was the case it really wouldn't have been any different than leaving it in the back seat of a car in the driveway. There's plenty of instances here where people have gone to the extremes flaming someone for saying they leave a pistol in their vehicle. Why aren't they flaming this guy now or is it different because of the post count of the OP?
Guess you can chalk it up to the "Lessons Learned" mentality instilled by the military. Learn what you can from every situation. Hopefully a lesson was learned here. Now there is a felon in possession of a very expensive precision rifle. (If he wasn't a felon before he is now.)
