FBI agent arms criminal in San Francisco
Fox News reports that an FBI agent in San Francisco tells local cops that his badge and .40 caliber handgun were stolen from his car.
The theft follows a series of break-in and burglaries where guns have been stolen and used in homicides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Prosecutors say a trio of homeless drifters in October stole a gun from a civilian’s parked car in San Francisco and used it to kill a backpacker and a tantric yoga instructor.
Three months earlier a gun stolen from the vehicle of an agent with the federal Bureau of Land Management was used to kill 32-year-old Kate Steinle.
You’d think that someone would make it illegal to break into cars and steal guns – that would put an end to the problem.
Category: Guns
You’d think that someone would make it illegal to break into cars and steal guns – that would put an end to the problem.
Or maybe it’s time to consider policing the police…they seem to struggle with properly securing their weapons these days…the loss of the badge makes it likely that someone will be using this to rob people gaining entry through the showing of the badge.
Highly paid pros should be doing a better job than the average working stiff at securing their gear one would think.
California has been approaching the gun issue completely wrong. The restrictions on gun ownership are so severe people have little choice but to steal them in order to defend themselves.
They should adopt West “By God” Virginia’s laws where you can easily pick of a gun from just about any stroller on the street.
I guess they don’t want gun crimes to skyrocket like they have recently in WV.
Stay tuned for this week’s episode of Fast and Furious San Francisco…what, this isn’t franchised?
Why did the agent leave their Badge and Gun in their car? Have they never heard of security? Cars are the LEAST secure place to leave a weapon. We had a similar thing happen here in the PRM, a Fed lost a Sniper Rifle and an M4 from his vehicle. When I say M4, I mean M4 as in Select Fire. The thief’s family turned them in and nothing happened to the agent, just like nothing will happen to this moron. But Only Police should have guns! If that was one of us, we would be up on charges so fast it would be sickening. CALM, BREATH, Coffee!
Sanctuary. San Fran has a law on the books that a would end in criminal charges for a civilian that left a weapon in the vehicle.
WHAT-DA fuckity-fuck-fuck pissass monkeyshit excuse does he have for leaving his weapon unsecured in a vehicle like that, let alone his badge? Ho-lee sheep shit, is he gonna be held accountable, or will he just get a slap on the wrist? And the criminal(s) that stole them, will they get prosecuted when they’re caught, or will they get an “Oh, don’t be a poop stain and do it again” lecture from a “Let ’em loose Bruce” type of Judge with a lazy Prosecutor aiding and abetting him or her? GEE WHIZ, those Gun Control laws in The People’s Republik of Kalifornia SURE DO wonders at preventing crime just like they do in Chicago and DC.
Waiting for Bateman to disarm the police. DO YOU HEAR ME BATEMAN?
Bateman’s line of illogic was to confiscate all firearms (in spite of that pesky 2nd Amendment thingy), because guns (and electric drills) get stolen from law abiding citizens and used by criminals to commit crimes.
Sauce for the goose…you know the rest. (《《《 that’s me channeling C.Long, another illogical douchebag)
As usual, (master)Bateman can go fuck himself. It’s common knowledge that his wife won’t do it for him.
As for Special Agent Dumbass, there are no words to appropriately describe his stupidity.
But. . . but. . .but. .. ONLY ONES!!!!!
Police departments function on the basis of law, regulation, policy, and procedure. If there is no state law or regulation prohibiting people from leaving weapons in their cars, or the police are exempt, then it’s not illegal for them to do so. If there is a policy that permits them to leave their weapons in their cars–and there frequently is–then they may do so. If no procedure is specified other than the place the weapon is left in a car be secure, then the trunk is usually the place for it. Try as it might, no law, regulation, policy, or procedure is 100% effective in preventing stupidity and mandating common sense. Shit happens.
Someone once told me: A lock is only there to keep the honest man…honest.
So this is what number two now ????
as far as federal law enforcement agents
helping to arm the criminal elements in San Francisco in the
last year thanks to a complete last of securing there firearm
what’s wrong with this picture?????
seriously WTF !!!!!!
But did we know before or after that woman was killed by the “undocumented immigrant” that a Federal Marshall lost his weapon?
That’s a GOOD ONE ????
If one of us were to leave a loaded weapon in our glove compartment, and a child got into the unlocked car….found the weapon and accidentally killed either itself or someone else….how quickly would we have been arrested?
Leaving weapons where criminals can use their craft and steal them, or leave the same weapon in a car which we forgot to lock…BOTH deserve the same consequences. A two brain cell minimum would keep anyone from leaving weapons in their vehicle. Betcha 99% of LEO would think the same.
Gotta love it:
http://komonews.com/news/local/fired-marysville-cop-whose-gun-killed-daughter-is-back-on-job
The issue of civil liability arising from the negligent storage of firearms has many “It depends” attached to it. Owner liability for the criminal’s use of the owner’s stolen firearm or the thief’s negligent handling of the stolen firearm that results in injury is not at all certain and is, in fact, highly doubtful. If a child—a youngster—comes upon a firearm and picks it up, discharging a round and hitting himself or someone else, it’s a safe bet civil liability will be found. (In the Washington state officer’s case, if the child killed not had been his own, you can bet he would have been sued civilly. Yes, he is back on the job, thanks to an arbitrator—which tells me that the matter was contested and that the department didn’t want him back.) On the other hand, if a thief breaks into your home or your car and steals a firearm, and that firearm hurts someone, the likelihood for you to be liable is just about nil. The reason is that the thief’s act was intentional and causation is located in his deliberate act, not your negligence. It’s the same idea when a car is stolen and the thief kills someone with it. Leaving the car unlocked or the car keys in the ashtray may have been stupid or unwise but it’s not the reason someone died. Of course, none of this addresses how you would feel if one of your guns was unsecured, stolen, and used to kill someone. But absent a statute that makes such a thing a criminal act, there would be no arrest.
gotta place some blame on the locals….there are so many gun-free zones there from which cops and agents are NOT immune that I’m told is os almost impossible to keep your gun on you at all times. If you face a felony for continuing to carry it, especially when surrounded by SF waterheads who freak out at the sight of even a cop’s gun – where are you going to put the gun? In your car if you’re away from home.
Maybe the best solution is for the city and all its waterheads to pay for safes and lockboxes for all the LEO’s cars…
Or many they could install gun safe kiosks throughout the city, like they do at the courthouse for cellphones. Of course, they would need storage bins to accommodate the various sized firearms that are currently available. Things will get complicated when they won’t allow you to bring your crossbow into Applebee’s.
Obviously we need the close the gunshow/store your weapon stupidly loophole in the law!
Why are they leaving this sort of stuff in vehicles? Did they have to disarm to go into a gun free zone? I bet it’s something like this causing this sort of stupid behavior in the first place.
Sorta. Police have no right to carry where guns are posted as prohibited private property. Some departments forbid officers from carrying into bars when off duty. And local/state police may not carry in federal buildings unless permitted. In other words, there are many instances in which the vehicle is the only place that a firearm may be temporarily stored and if a thief sees the officer stash it or happens to pick that car to steal or rummage through, there you go.
Meanwhile, we are getting bombarded with ads telling people “do NOT leave your valuables in plain sight when leaving your vehicle”. I would have thought, especially in the wonderful land of California where they try to legislate everything, that a secure box would be installed in cars to prevent this kind of thing from happening? I know my little lockbox is far from perfect when traveling, but with the cable securely wrapped around something not easily removed, at least it will slow someone down long enough for me to show them the error of their ways!
More of America’s finest on display there…
I hate libs, I just fucking hate them…