"Bad Lieutenant," Indeed

[Veer_G]

This guy short-dicks Keitel's character by a fuckin' mile.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/0...ws-to-resell-dozens-guns-prosecutors-say.html

 

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“ only police should have firearms”

 

[Threadcutter308]

This guy short-dicks Keitel's character by a fuckin' mile.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/0...ws-to-resell-dozens-guns-prosecutors-say.html

Lt. Vasken Gourdikian's lawyer is Mark Geragos;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geragos

High profile Hollyweird lawyer, on Cop's wages ?

Per the article, Gourdikian has also been on paid leave for a year. If he was simply (or in an overly complicated manner) gaming the system on a couple of different levels, why such a high profile lawyer for this case ? Something seems fishy.

Also.....is it just me, or does Gourdikian's head seem disproportionately large for his body ?

 

[Veer_G]

Also.....is it just me, or does Gourdikian's head seem disproportionately large for his body ?

GOURDiklan. I think he might be from the south of ... France.

 

[ArmyJerry]

I don't see a problem with what he did. Selling a gun is none of the governments business.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

I agree with you. But you have to admit it is nice to see karma bite this bitch. He would have had no problem locking you down for doing the very thing he has done.

 

[ArmyJerry]

yeah but again its none of the governments business,

 

[Steel+Killer]

There is a lot fucked up with this. On one hand I feel like he did nothing wrong because the government should keep there noses out of citizens buying and selling guns in the first place........then on the other hand why the fuck should cops in California be allowed to buy firearms for personal use that civilians cannot buy what the fuck is up with the double standard there?

 

[QuickNDirty]

There is a lot fucked up with this. On one hand I feel like he did nothing wrong because the government should keep there noses out of citizens buying and selling guns in the first place........then on the other hand why the fuck should cops in California be allowed to buy firearms for personal use that civilians cannot buy what the fuck is up with the double standard there?

I think the second part is discussed in animal farm. Something about equality being a spectrum.

 

[500grains]

Is this an anti cop thread?

 

[ArmyJerry]

it could be if you want to make it that way.

 

[FatBoy]

Is this an anti cop thread?

it should be an "equal protection" thread. the cops in CA don't make the laws.

 

[MtnCreek]

Cops in CA should only have access to firearms that are legal in CA. That should include agency owned firearms.

 

[sandwarrior]

I'm thinking the guns he sold were supposed to be disposed of or dispossessed properly. He can't just take seized guns and sell them for his own profit. Guns, or any seized property, is not his to sell.

That does not mean that I agree with how all those gun came into the possession of the Pasadena Police department.

 

[DuneBoer]

He's dirty. Used his position for private gain. Took seized contraband and sold it for profit. Give him time served and 3 years probation like they do with everyone else.

 

[sandwarrior]

He's dirty. Used his position for private gain. Took seized contraband and sold it for profit. Give him time served and 3 years probation like they do with everyone else.

At the bare minimum....

 

[MarinePMI]

For those that don't know, the California "safe gun" BS was DOA, until law enforcement received an exemption for the law. Then the LEO endorsed the law, giving it enough support to push it through the State legislature. So now they can buy "off roster" hand guns, and sell them later for a profit.

Another reason gun control doesn't work...people are inherently flawed, some more so than others.

I can't tell you how many cops I've met or known that have SBR's that aren't registered. When asked about the illegality of it, one cop told me "Not for me it isn't." And they wonder why the public sometimes has a less than stellar respect for LEO.

Don't get me wrong, most of the LEO I've come in contact with have been super straight up folks, and pleasant to chat with. But it's always that 10% that the public see and latch on to...

 

[500grains]

I can't tell you how many cops I've met or known that have SBR's that aren't registered. When asked about the illegality of it, one cop told me "Not for me it isn't." And they wonder why the public sometimes has a less than stellar respect for LEO.

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Some years back a cop in IL went to the federal pen for having an unregistered SBR. He thought he was exempt from the law because he was a cop, but the gun was not owned by the PD that employed him, so be was convicted.

 

[hermosabeach]

https://transparentcalifornia.com/ - look up any Public person's wages here for the state of CA

It's CA, Public Employees do alright

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2016/pasadena/vasken-gourdikian/

Vasken Gourdikian
Police Lieutenant
Regular pay: $135,919.65
Overtime pay: $25,681.06
Other pay: $8,520.83
Total pay: $170,121.54
Total benefits: $76,489.00- (not paid to him, but the cost to taxpayers for medical and pension)
Total pay & benefits: $246,610.54

 

[hermosabeach]

In California we cannot get the unsafe Glock 42 nor 43. We cannot get Gen 4 or Gen 5 Glocks- they are unsafe
They don;t have a magazine disconnector
They don;t have 2 types if microstamping to add a serial # onto the primer and brass once fired


So a used Glock 43 is selling for around $900

Even the Ruger LC9 can be north of $500


the Safe Handgun Roster really limits CA sales.... and don;t forget, Los Angeles has more people than 40 states (not combined)
The 1989 CA ASSault weapon bill became the basis for the 1994 Clinton AWB

Shyte rolls Left cost to nation wide- it sucks

 

[ArmyJerry]

Move