Machine Gun Mystery In Sheriff's Dept.

[Pa. Patriot]

If the SD had approached the commissioners about selling the MACHINE GUN, I'm betting they would have told them they cant do that and must destroy it...
Who's with me?

[God's Country]

If the SD had approached the commissioners about selling the MACHINE GUN, I'm betting they would have told them they cant do that and must destroy it...
Who's with me?

Agreed unless they smelled $$$

[ungawa]

If the SD had approached the commissioners about selling the MACHINE GUN, I'm betting they would have told them they cant do that and must destroy it...
Who's with me?

Absolutely.

$20K is a lot of scratch, was this thing transferable? They are lucky they got paid fair value instead of a couple tax-free MP-5 "upgrade" guns.

[normanvin]

If the SD had approached the commissioners about selling the MACHINE GUN, I'm betting they would have told them they cant do that and must destroy it...
Who's with me?

Or it would have ended up in one of the good buddies hands.

[wa3ra]

Not only did they get paid, they got almost full retail value for the thing, not wholesale...Chris must have wanted it it for the cachet.

[BanginBonnie2]

In todays paper.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Gun_...1-23-2010.html

Gun’s sale puts ex-sheriff in Petrilla’s sights
A Tommy gun, vintage 1928, should have been dealt with by the commissioners, the board’s chairwoman says.


... Acting Sheriff Charles Guarnieri said Friday that sheriff’s workers found the gun in a storage area along with others that were being rounded up for destruction.
... Guarnieri said Savokinas contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to check out the gun. Federal investigators who were checking out other matters in the office also knew about the gun, he said.
... The office did not involve commissioners in the sale because Savokinas believed it had been donated to the office years ago by the prison.

... “The situation didn’t require that it go out for a bid. It was the office’s weapon, registered to the office,” Guarnieri said.

Hello Normanvin,


Did you get as many ' chuckles ' with this deal as I did ?

Someone " Found " the gun ... FLMAO !

The " Feds knew about it " ... funny that Big Brother don't forget, huh.

" Believed " the gun was donated ... yeah, okay

" Didn't require that it go out for bid " ... ah, the hell with the rules and the right way of doing things


... Ahem, are these ' we just stumbled upon a Thompson ' Einsteins the same sort of folks that want to require you to " Report your stolen Gun within 24hrs.or go to jail " .. same breed ?


Take Care Normanvin

[Seneca Arms Co. Inc.]

Even if this Thompson was on a form 4 $20K from a dealer is a good number in this economy. If it is not on a form 4 then AA overpaid for the gun. Either way It would seem AA has no negligence in this transaction.

[thanker92]

Am I hearing this right?
Corruption???
In NEPA????
Well.... I,for one, am SHOCKED!!!

Actually I'm shocked that they didn't sell it to a gangbanger for more.
This resds like a plot for a 3 stooges short.

(I only hope that Chris is chuckling over it...)

[mongo]

What about the other guns? The newspaper article said about a 30-06. Could this be the BAR that was in the cabinet behind Jago's desk? We will have to ask Jago.

[normanvin]

Hello Normanvin,


Did you get as many ' chuckles ' with this deal as I did ?

Someone " Found " the gun ... FLMAO !

The " Feds knew about it " ... funny that Big Brother don't forget, huh.

" Believed " the gun was donated ... yeah, okay

" Didn't require that it go out for bid " ... ah, the hell with the rules and the right way of doing things


... Ahem, are these ' we just stumbled upon a Thompson ' Einsteins the same sort of folks that want to require you to " Report your stolen Gun within 24hrs.or go to jail " .. same breed ?


Take Care Normanvin

When I was a vol. fireman for my township I had heard that the local pd had a Thompson that they kept in the trunk of one of the cruisers. It is my understanding that it was common for small pd's to have them from the Bonnie and Clyde days.

It is my uns=derstanding that the 30-06 was a BAR.