In Senate hearings in Hibbing last week, Sen. Ron Latz and his DFL minions angrily derided Republicans for implying the city was dangerous.
About that time, this guy got arrested.
A loaded gun, a ballistic vest, multiple magazines and 18 rounds of loose ammunition.
That’s what police say they discovered inside a vehicle parked in an alley in the 1000 block of Beech Street in St. Paul last Saturday night.
The man in the driver’s seat has been arrested four times since September. Each time officers found firearms, say court records, which detail just three of the arrests.
The firearm, a loaded Brugger & Thomet TP9 handgun, was beneath the driver’s seat, according to the complaint. The ballistic vest, three Glock 9-millimeter magazines, two Tec magazines and the loose rounds of ammunition were in a suitcase in the back seat.
Lincoln was arrested at the scene and declined to make a statement to investigators. The female passenger with him said she didn’t know anything about guns in the vehicle.
State law prohibits Lincoln from possessing a firearm since he was convicted of felony level domestic assault in 2011, court records say.
He has two other unlawful gun-possession cases pending against him in Ramsey County from earlier this fall.
In the first, officers pulled him over Sept. 13 after noting that his vehicle’s windows were illegally tinted and found multiple bags of marijuana, as well as two loaded handguns, inside, charges say.
Obviously, we need universal background checks.
The SPPD is doing a good job in pulling bad guys with guns of the street. Unfortunately, the DA puts them right back again.
What does it take to get put in jail in St Paul?
I have cash. I’d be willing to buy one of those guns on the street that are easier to find than books, so the government has no record of my purchase and can’t come knocking on my door when it’s time to confiscate them. But how do I locate a street dealer? They don’t have websites, they don’t have Yellow Pages ads, they’re not on Craig’slist.
I’m like those dorks in Office Space trying to find someone to launder their money. If you don’t already hang out with criminals, how do you find criminals to do business with them?
Which seems to be a huge flaw with gun control laws. The law won’t stop people like me from illegally buying guns because I can’t find a criminal to sell me one. And they won’t stop criminals from illegally buying guns because they already know where to buy guns illegally.
It almost seems as if Democrats are engaged in a fatuous charade of meaningless virtue signaling. But enough about impeachment. Where do I find the illegal gun dealers?
Easy Joe!
Find a friend, like one that I used to have until he passed away from cancer, who scuba dive lakes around the metro and in other popular lakes in the state. Over the course of five years, he found:
1. 75 guns, mostly shotguns, but also a couple of nice rifles and nine handguns, two of which had the serial numbers ground off. For obvious reasons and even though one was so rusty that only a moron would attempt to shoot it, he did turn those two illegal guns over law enforcement in the jurisdiction he was diving in.
2. 15 outboard motors
3. A butt ton of fishing gear
With the exception of those two illegal handguns, the rest of the stuff was no doubt the result of the tragic boating accidents that have befallen some of us SiTD readers, including me.
He would refurbish whatever he found that was restorable, then resell what he didn’t want.
bosshoss429 on January 28, 2020 at 11:06 am said:
Easy Joe!
Find a friend, like one that I used to have until he passed away from cancer, who scuba dive lakes around the metro and in other popular lakes in the state. Over the course of five years, he found:
. . .
I bet he got the keys to my ’76 El Camino.
I don’t understand, if “[s]tate law prohibits Lincoln from possessing a firearm”, how did he ever get one?
Aren’t we assuming malicious intent here, just because the guy’s got some prior felony convictions? Maybe he knew he wasn’t supposed to have the firearms anymore and was just taking them to gun-buyback location? /sarc
MP;
Maybe. He did find some car keys on occasion.
He also looked in an area of Bush Lake in Bloomington for about a year trying to find the engagement ring, valued at about $3,000 in 1977 money, thrown in there by the fiance of one of his friends after a fight. The engagement was definitely off. He never found it, even with a metal detector.
I don’t understand, if “[s]tate law prohibits Lincoln from possessing a firearm”, how did he ever get one?
The unspoken (as of yet), but underlying answer is “If there WERE NO GUNS, people who couldn’t own guns couldn’t get guns.” Of course, people who CAN own guns also couldn’t get guns.
And there’s the answer we know and they won’t say out loud. Yet (Northam not withstanding)
In Mitch’s turn of phrase: They may not be trying to outright ban guns, but if they were, I can’t see how they’d do anything differently.
Reminds me of how, during the Obama administration, they constantly complained about how NW Indiana was supplying all the guns to Chicago gang-bangers, but when time came to, say, prosecute those who possessed or trafficked these illegal guns, nobody stepped up to the plate.
And they wonder why we accuse them of being more about increasing government power than about ensuring public safety.
Liberals always want more laws. The problems that they are trying to solve are those created by their unwillingness to prosecute the existing perpetrators based on some ethnic characteristic.
Same reason as the St. Paul school district has discipline problems…